Patents Assigned to United Bakery Equipment Co.
  • Method and apparatus for cutting bread bowl bakery products
    Patent number: 6042864
    Abstract: A machine and method for cutting plugs in the tops of baked products which serve as bread bowls when the plugs are removed. The products are conveyed in successive rows to a cutting station where they are stopped and centered beneath a row of cutters by a centering gate and clamped in place by a clamping gate. The cutters are rotated and lowered in unison to cut cylindrical plugs which remain in place on the bakery products for handling and packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: United Bakery Equipment Co.
    Inventors: Paul M. Bastasch, Todd M. Edmunds, Randyl C. Hanson, Scott Lickteig, Eric Scheier