Abstract: A sandwiching machine for applying creme, for example, a chocolate or vanilla flavored filling, jelly, peanut butter or the like, to at least two laterally spaced rows of cookies traveling along said sandwiching machine. The sandwiching machine includes improved stencil means for applying creme to the cookies in a uniform manner comprising a stencil sleeve and a stencil rotatable thereon, the stencil having spaced apart discharge orifices and the stencil sleeve having inlets at each side of the discharge orifices, valve means within the stencil sleeve for controlling the flow of creme through the discharge orifices, and creme hopper means communicating with the stencil sleeve inlets. The creme hopper means in one embodiment includes a single hopper for supplying the same creme to each stencil sleeve inlet.

Abstract: Automatic sandwiching machine for cookies and the like. The cookies having design impressed on one side thereof are conveyed through an oven in rows with the design sides facing upwardly and the opposite or plain sides facing the oven conveyor. At least two side-by-side rows are up-ended and stacked one behind the other and conveyed to adjacent magazines with the sides with the design facing upwardly. The rows of cookies are flared as they leave the oven with four rows of cookies in each group of flared rows and are conveyed to separate magaines design side up. One magazine is spaced in advance of the other. The magazines drop the cookies on a conveyor where the advance cookies are positioned to be deposited on creme deposited on trailing or upstream cookies. One upstream magazine is spaced ahead of the other.