Patent ID: 7067167
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: A21C,A21D

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing a plurality of soft cookie dough pieces with an ornamental imprint on a surface of the soft cookie dough pieces, the method comprising: (a) forming a plurality of soft cookie dough pieces from a quantity of soft cookie dough; (b) providing the plurality of soft cookie dough pieces onto a movable conveyor in an arrangement comprising regularly spaced rows and columns for transporting the soft cookie dough pieces in a machine direction; (c) applying an ornamental imprint on a surface of the soft cookie dough pieces with an imprint device, the imprint being applied to the soft cookie dough pieces in a similar alignment as compared with one another; (d) transferring the soft cookie dough pieces with their applied ornamental imprints from the conveyor for packaging together; and (e) controlling the imprint device to reduce sticking of the soft cookie dough to the imprint device.