Patent ID: 6902754
Filing Date: 2005-06-07
Classification: A21C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of shaping and cutting a dough sheet to sequentially form a plurality of dough pieces; comprising: a) providing a sheet of dough having a first surface with a first skin and a second surface with a second skin; b) providing a dough cutting apparatus having a movable cutter with a blunt dough engaging portion that extends sufficiently to sever the dough sheet, the blunt dough engaging portion having a dough shaping surface to shape and sever the dough sheet; c) causing the dough shaping surface of the blunt dough engaging portion to contact the first surface of the dough sheet and thereby drawing the first skin toward the second skin and substantially pinching the first and second skins together; and d) severing the dough sheet with the blunt dough engaging portion after the first skin and the second skin become substantially pinched together to form at least a portion of the plurality of dough pieces; and e) causing the moveable cutter to release the at least a portion of the plurality of dough pieces so that the dough pieces may be further processed.