Pizza crust dough forming die assembly

Abstract

A dough forming die assembly for the manufacture of machine-made pizza crusts in cooperation with a pizza pan having a generally circular central portion surrounded by upwardly sloping walls joining a horizontal rim. The dough forming die is mounted to a vertically movable base and provided with a generally planar face portion having a surrounding recessed rim. The outer wall of said rim is provided with a downwardly extending thin lip adapted to engage the upper portion of said sloping walls of said pan. A cylindrical, ring-shaped sealing member is mounted to the base for limited slidable movement relative to said die between a raised position and a lowered position engaging said pan and slideably engages the outer wall of said rim. The sealing ring includes a bottom edge provided with a radius forming a downwardly extending thin lip on the inner wall of said bottom edge conformed to sealingly engage the lip on the recesses of said die and the sloping walls of said pan to confine the pizza dough between said recess of said die and the sloping walls of said pan.