Patent ID: 9339041
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: A21C,A21D,B26D,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. Apparatus for the continuous production of cookies having a high content of large inclusions comprising a wirecut machine having a plurality of die orifices, a plurality of ultrasonic cutters which are each attached to the wire cut machine and which each have an ultrasonic cutting blade, and a conveyor belt located below the wirecut machine, wherein the ultrasonic cutting blades travel in a looped path and are synchronized to cut across a plurality of die apertures which are above the moving conveyor to ultrasonically cut vertically oriented dough ropes extruded from the plurality of die apertures to obtain dough pieces which fall onto the moving conveyor in a substantially uniform array of rows, each of the ultrasonic cutters being configured to provide the ultrasonic cutting blades with an amplitude of blade motion which is 12 microns to 18 microns.