Patent ID: 6929460

Claim:
A dough handling apparatus comprising a dough cutting apparatus including a plurality of dough cutting members, each dough cutting member being adapted to be brought into contact with a travelling strip of dough for cutting a desired shape out of the strip of dough, each dough cutting member being spaced apart by a predetermined distance from an adjacent cutting member in a plane across the dough cutting apparatus which is transverse to the direction of travel of the strip of dough so that when each cutting member cuts a dough cut-out from the strip of dough, a relatively narrow web of waste dough is produced in the region between adjacent dough cutting members, and a waste dough web removing apparatus for separating the waste dough web from the dough cut-outs, the web removing apparatus including at least one finger for urging the waste dough web upwardly for removal from the dough cut-outs while enabling the dough cut-outs to remain in situ.