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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2004
Marlin L. Anderson, Irving, TX (US);
David Lawrence Barry, Highland Village, TX (US);
David Brian Emerson, Coppell, TX (US);
William C. Flannigan, San Antonio, TX (US);
John D. Kiel, Allen, TX (US);
Geoffrey T. Ley, Dallas, TX (US);
Thomas E. Lyons, Rio Medina, TX (US);
Richard James Ruegg, Coppell, TX (US);
Marlin L. Anderson, Irving, TX (US);
David Lawrence Barry, Highland Village, TX (US);
David Brian Emerson, Coppell, TX (US);
William C. Flannigan, San Antonio, TX (US);
John D. Kiel, Allen, TX (US);
Geoffrey T. Ley, Dallas, TX (US);
Thomas E. Lyons, Rio Medina, TX (US);
Richard James Ruegg, Coppell, TX (US);
Frito-Lay North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An improved dough-rolling apparatus and method for rolling sheeted dough. The proposed invention comprises a dough-rolling apparatus having a dough sheeter, a sheeting conveyor having a ramped section, a roll-initiating curtain positioned above the ramped section, and a roll-completing curtain positioned above the conveyor and downstream from the roll-initiating conveyor. Sheeted and cut dough pieces are deposited onto a steel mesh, partially-ramped sheeter belt, where two wire-mesh rolling curtains are draped onto the sheeter belt to induce rolling of the dough pieces.