Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-23
MACHINE TO MAKE PIE
CONNECTIONS such as "MOther Used 60
Make" OutcIassed by Ma
chine-Made Article.


Lovers of the great American dainty.
pie-will rejoice to learn that new era
has set In for its unlimited production.
II is a far cry from the pies mother
used to make" to a superior product made
by machinery, but this has been accom-
plished by machine invented by Phila-
delphian.
For years there has been progress in al
most every line OF baking with the excep-
ton Of the succulent pie. Bakers and prao-
teal inventors along those lines, who ex-
perimented have declared that, machine
made pies were as impossible as perpetual
motion There are 30 many steps In the
operation that It would seem their con-
tention was we'll founded. Undauntsd by
precedent, however, the Philadelphia I'm
ventor has continued his experiments for
two years, and at last has reached his
goal
The piemaking rachine has been in-
stalled in baking oompany's plant in this
city, and is now grinding out a steady
stream of pies of all kinds and varieties.
With the machine an operator can now
produce thousands Of pies where he form
erly turned out hundreds. Not only viii
this serve to cheaper production, bensft-
ing the consumer by making II possible
the work is mechanical, absolute cleAnlt-
ness and uniformity is assured.
The pie machine is long and narrow
being about ten feet by twenty inches
one man and three boys constitute the
| operating force. turning out sixteen 70
! eighteen finished pies minute. An cleo
/ trio motor furnishes power, while gaS
/ jet keeps the forming dies warm sus-
/ pended over the machine is tank which
/ holds a sufficient amount OF filling for toe
| pies. An agitator revolves within ana
keeps the fruit from packing at the outlet.
After the paste" for crusts has been
properly mixed It is weighed and cut tnto
proper sized pieces by dough dividsE. n
| tray full OF humps of dough for bottom
! crusts is placed at one end Of the mAohins
| and another tray containing Jumps for top
/ crusts at the other end. Al the rear IL q
stack of plates, automatically FED BY .
ratchet. A magnetzed arm swings around,
picks up a plate and places IT on die
made to receive II. piece OF dough IL
placed on the plate and the next move
ment brings It under a die which forms
the lower crust. Then the fruit is de-
posted from the tank and the plate moves
forward. BY this time another lump OF
dough has been nattened out and stamped
with an initial-suoh as IL" for lemon
while an automatic bellows blows a pun
OF -four over the dough to keep It from
! sticking.
The next movement brings the filled pie
and this upper crust together, one operator
being stationed here TO adjust the tor
cover II necessary Then the covered pie
comes under the edging die. which cuts on
all scraps, and the pie passes forward on
an apron which leads to the oven One
motion succeeds another with such reEu-
Iarity that the finished pie is passing "a
\ the oven almost before one can grasp the
idea and purpose OF the machine. With
no fuss and little noise the empty plate
I starts at one end and passes on the ethsl
end Of the machine. finished pie h less
than four seconds Philadelphia Record.