Patent ID: 7654195
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: A21B,A21C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for making a food product comprising: a conveyor for conveying a plurality of parallelogram-shaped molds that are open at ends thereof and connected in series to each other at their open ends, each of said parallelogram-shaped molds having a pair of opposing side plates, each of the opposing side plates having a plurality of arced portions that are connected in series to each other; a means for continuously filling food dough into the plurality of parallelogram-shaped molds, wherein the apparatus is located above the conveyor; removable plates that extend transversely across the opposing side plates of the parallelogram-shaped molds at each end of each parallelogram-shaped mold, to divide the food dough at each end of the parallelogram-shaped molds, to close ends of the parallelogram-shaped molds, and to form a plurality of separate parallelogram-shaped molds, wherein the removable plates can be removed from the parallelogram-shaped molds in a vertical direction; and opposite guide plates for guiding the parallelogram-shaped molds along the conveyor, wherein the opposite guide plates are disposed above the conveyor.