Abstract: A baked sandwich may be formed by baking a preparation comprised of a filler material provided between two portions of dough. The preparation is preferably formed from a pita dough to produced a freshly baked pita sandwich. The preparation is preferably baked in a conveyor oven. The baked sandwich is preferably cut into multiple pieces and provided to a customer. A variety of garnishes and sauces are preferably made available to the customer to be placed within the pieces of the baked sandwich.

Abstract: A pottery holding device and method for securely holding a workpiece during rotation and working of the workpiece on a wheelhead of a pottery wheel. The pottery holding device includes a wheelhead member and at least three holding members. The wheelhead member configured for attachment to the wheelhead of a pottery wheel. The at least three holding members and wheelhead member configured to allow selective locking of the at least three holding members in positions about the periphery of a workpiece. The device adapted to securely hold circular, non-circular symmetric and irregular, asymmetric or organic shaped workpieces. The device further adapted to securely hold workpieces in positions and orientations such that the center of the workpieces is aligned with the axis of rotation of the device, and positions and orientations such that the center of the workpieces is spaced from the axis of rotation of the device.

Abstract: A system and method for centering a clay plug on a potter's wheel before rotation of the potter's wheel includes a rotatable adapter having a central axis aligned with the central axis of the potter's wheel, a rotatable toroidal disk bat whose central axis is aligned with central axis of the rotatable adapter, and a clay plug having a central axis aligned with the central axis of the rotatable toroidal disk bat.

Abstract: A system and method for centering a clay plug on a potter's wheel before rotation of the potter's wheel includes a rotatable adapter having a central axis aligned with the central axis of the potter's wheel, a rotatable bat whose central axis is aligned with central axis of the rotatable adapter, and a clay plug having a central axis aligned with the central axis of the rotatable bat.

Abstract: A potter's table including a rotating pneumatic clay extruder coupled to the potter's wheel. Clay is fed from a vented storage cylinder in centered relation to the wheel past an interchangeable template via a hand valve controlled pneumatic piston and rotatable ram head coaxially mounted within the storage cylinder. An electric foot-operated, proportional speed belt drive, belt tensioning assembly and upper and lower bearing assemblies support the cylinder and potter's wheel in rotative relation to the table and pneumatic piston.

Abstract: For the manufacture of oval dishes, a machine has two work supports arranged to rotate moulds eccentrically for clay on the moulds to be shaped into oval forms. At a first, spreading, station the clay is engaged by a pancake-type spreading roller which squeezes a piece of clay into an oval shape. The mould is transferred to a second, or finishing, station where a finishing roller rolls the clay to the desired configuration of the oval dish. The spreading roller is driven. The finishing roller may be driven or it may rotate freely, a brake being applied to the free roller, for the end of a finishing operation, to improve the surface finish of the ware.

Abstract: An oval dish forming machine has two revolvable wheels each of which is supported on a structure permitting the wheel to move in an eccentric pattern so that discs of clay on carriers on the wheels may be formed in desirable oval shapes. One of the wheels comprises a first or spreading station where the disc of clay is subjected to a rolling extruding action of a cone-shaped roller which squeezes the clay against the carrier to form a desirable oval shape. The carrier and the initially shaped clay is then manually moved to a second or finishing station where a dumbbell shaped roller engages the clay shape on the carrier and rolls the excess clay from the shape to the desired configuration of the oval dish. The dumbbell shaped roller is stopped in the last revolution of the wheel so as to smooth the clay by a sliding action. Motion of the two shaping and finishing rollers is controlled to properly process and shape the clay so as to insure the removal of air and excess moisture therefrom.