Patents Examined by David S. Safran
  • Patent number: 3930769
    Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for producing strudel dough and the like. The apparatus generally comprises rolling apparatus for rolling dough into a flat sheet, a conveyor and stretcher for conveying the dough from the rolling apparatus and stretching it in a direction transverse to the direction in which it is rolled, clamping and conveying apparatus for conveying the dough from the stretching apparatus while maintaining it in its substantially most stretched condition, and apparatus for facilitating the removal of moisture from the flat sheet to preferably reduce its moisture content 80-83%. The moisture removing apparatus may comprise a hot-air blower and/or an absorptive band or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: Vereinigte Nahrungsmittelindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Karl Gunther
  • Patent number: 3930773
    Abstract: A machine for making cinnamon rolls and the like with dough fed from a reciprocating hopper through forms inside dough discharge outlets to provide a simple spiral, or other, configuration into expressed dough, the forms having tubular portions through which flavoring material is added, a cut-off knife reciprocating across the discharge outlets determining the thickness of the individual rolls which drop onto a removable pallet or moving belt for transfer thereof to an electronic oven or its equivalent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Inventor: Harry H. Bundschuh