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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
May. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasunori Tashiro, Utsunomiya, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A21C 5/00 ; A21D 6/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A21C 5/00 ; A21D 6/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method are provided for cutting and shaping food products consisting of a filling and a crust from bar-shaped food material. This apparatus comprises shutter members, each having a cutting surface and a sliding surface, a holding member that bridges and holds two adjacent shutter members, shafts equidistantly disposed on an imaginary circle, and driving means for synchronously rotating shutter members in the horizontal direction by the rotation of shafts.