Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.

Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC

Joseph Fierro

Mihaelos N Mihalos

Zena E Forte

Henry Fernandes

Theodore N Janulis

Chris E Robinson

Domenico R Cassone

Carol Wines

Allison Antonini

Thin, baked fermented chips having an irregular shape and surface bubbles are produced by cutting a fermented, wheat-based compressed dough sheet into a plurality of pieces having different shapes and notches with a single rotary cutter so that the dough pieces form an interlocking pattern and the notches extend around the periphery of each piece. The notches are spaced around the periphery of each piece and facilitate separation of the dough pieces from each other while at least substantially avoiding tearing and breaking of the dough pieces. A plurality of notches of each piece are aligned or contiguous with notches of any adjacent piece in the interlocking pattern.

Production of baked snack chips with irregular shape having notched edges

Thin snack chips having a curved or wave shape are obtained by forming, shaping or curling baked chips into a curved or wave configuration before they become too cold and rigid so as to result in breakage during forming. The essentially flat, malleable baked chips, still hot from baking in an oven may be continuously transported on a conveyer belt into a nip or gap formed between the conveyer belt and a rotating forming roller to curve or curl the malleable baked chips around the roller. The malleable baked chips are subjected to a guided curtain of air to cool and set the chips in a curved or wave configuration and to remove or blow the curved or wave chips off of the rotating forming roller onto the conveyor belt.

Process and apparatus for forming a wave chip product

Baked snack chip with irregular shape having notched edges

Wave chip snack having particulates

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Warwick, NY, United States of America

Joseph Fierro