Abstract: A sheet-decorating injection molding machine (10) comprises: a female mold (12) having a hollow (13) and a parting surface (14) surrounding the hollow (13); a male mold (25) disposed opposite to the female mold (12) to hold a decorative sheet (S) between the female and the male mold (12, 25) and provided with runners (27) and gates (28) through which a molten resin is injected into a cavity defined by the female mold (12) and the male mold (25). The parting surface (14) of the female mold (12) includes a substantially convex, curved surface. A sheet feed mechanism (5) comprises a driving-and-guiding mechanism including sprocket wheels (41, 42, 43, 44, 45) and a stepping geared motor (52).

Abstract: The present invention discloses and provides a dough preparation and dividing machine capable of receiving substantially spherical, filled encrusted dough balls and forming them, with a minimum of dough working, into flattened, "D"-shaped configurations to increase the output of a conventional encrusting and co-extruding device for filled, encrusted dough ball products.

Abstract: To enhance safety in cases where an upper die is fitted to a lower die into which a meat mass is fed, a state in which the upper die is fitted to the lower die is made basic. A measure is provided to ensure that a safety cover does not open in a state in which the upper die is raised, and the meat mass is automatically fed to the lower die as the upper die is raised, thereby enhancing the operating efficiency.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for forming casingless food products such as casingless sausages and the like is provided. The apparatus includes a denaturing solution into which a flowable batter material is extruded in a generally cylindrical configuration. The denaturing solution includes ingredients which act on the batter to form a skin. In a first embodiment, the extrusion apparatus extrudes batter directly into the denaturing solution and the extrusion orifice is adjustable reclosable to form domed ends of the batter material during the extrusion of the material into the solution. In a second embodiment, a shaping and cutting apparatus is provided to receive a continuous ribbon of batter from the extrusion apparatus. The cutting and shaping device cuts the ribbon into links and simultaneously forms domed ends thereon. The formed links are removed from the solution and, after an optional washing step, can be further processed into a cooked and packaged product.

Abstract: An arrangement for introducing banderoles or strips into a mold of a heat-forming machine of thermoplastic materials.The banderoles are obtained by longitudinally and transversely cutting a band being paid out from a feed roller.The transverse cutting is effected by a knife and the longitudinal cutting is effected by a rotating cutting edge mounted on a cutting wheel. The band is being fed via a pair of feed rollers. The knife and cutting wheel are mounted at a precisely set distance. The circumference of each feed roller and the circumference of the cutting wheel is equal to the length of one banderole. An additional wheel is provided which coacts with the cutting wheel and is in abutting contact therewith. A permanent fixed angular relationship is provided between the drive for the knife, on the one hand, and the drive for the cutting wheel, feed rollers and additional wheel, on the other hand.

Abstract: A food press for shaping comestible products, such as meat and the like, in a tubular die aperture of uniform cross-section by a ram reciprocable in the die aperture by a cylinder and piston-type fluid actuator constructed so that no portion of the piston rod that might extend into the die aperture is retracted into the cylinder of the fluid actuator. The die aperture is formed by a channel-shaped stationary die means and a channel-shaped movable die means closed at the end opposite the ram. The movable die means has a part at the closed end which when the die means are closed extends into the channel of the stationary die means and which with the closed end of the movable die means provides an end wall or surface in the die aperture facing the ram inclined to the length of the die aperture. The face of the ram is similarly inclined so as to be parallel with the opposed wall of the die aperture.