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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald L Cummins, Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Assignee:
AMF Machinery Systems, Inc., Richmond, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A21D / ; A21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426496 ; 425241 ; 425332 ; 4253 / ; 426503 ;
Abstract
A dough piece rounder and method where the belt used for conveying the dough pieces past the rounder bar is supported by a thin film of air between the underside of the conveyor belt and a perforated plate which forms the upper flat side of a plenum chamber. The principal part of the apparatus is supported on a horizontal cantilever cylinder so that the belt can be readily replaced from one side and the apparatus can be tilted so that the inlet and exit of the dough pieces can be at different levels.