Frito-lay North America, Inc.

Sonny Beckman

V N Mohan Rao

Ajay Rajeshwar Bhaskar

Vn Mohan Rao

David L Sanchez

William Yang

Bhima Geera

Rudolph L Bazaldua

Lori Glanz

Samuel Asiedu Asante

Nick Ladin

An apparatus for separating a ribbon of uncooked embossed dough into separated pieces patterned/shaped like the embossed pattern. The apparatus includes a pair of spaced apart rollers for receiving a ribbon of dough there between. One of rollers has a pattern embossed on its surface to emboss the ribbon of dough with the pattern. The surface embossing and the spacing between the rollers maintains the structural integrity of the embossed ribbon of dough. The apparatus has a two spaced apart rotating arms to receive the embossed dough ribbon there between. A plurality of spaced apart fingers extend outward along the length of each of the arms and are configured to tear the dough, without sticking, into dough pieces reflecting shapes embossed in the dough ribbon. The dough pieces can be dried, and patterned shaped pieces are separated out for expansion to three dimensions by cooking.

Apparatus for production of snack food pellets

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Kankakee, IL, United States of America

Sonny Beckman