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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2018
Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Cathryn Fritz-Jung, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (US);
David Scrivano, South Lyon, MI (US);
David Strother, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Amanda B. Thomas, Livonia, MI (US);
Sean M. Heslip, Manchester, MI (US);
Kent A. Deemter, Hudsonville, MI (US);
Tyler W. Mccoy, Holland, MI (US);
Bret A. Hoeksema, Zeeland, MI (US);
Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for assembling a pizza, including a pizza sauce spreading station, a cheese spreading station and a pepperoni applying station. A robot including a stationary base and an articulating arm having a gripper attached to the end is operable to grip a pizza pan having pizza dough therein to allow said robot to move the pan throughout the pizza sauce spreading station, and to a rotary dial system including the cheese spreading station and the pepperoni applying station. The robot arm manipulates the pizza pan in the sauce spreading station and the rotary dial system manipulates the pizza pan in the cheese station and the pepperoni applying station to properly distribute the cheese and pepperoni on the pizza.