Dough forming and cooking apparatus

摘要

Apparatus for forming and cooking articles made from material of dough-like consistency. The apparatus combines: means adapted to contain a fluid cooking medium at an elevated temperature; an endless belt means adapted to continuous operation having a plurality of convex porous mold members arranged on a surface; a web-like articulated continuous conveyor means adapted to receive finite quantities of amorphous, dough-like material; and means for intermittently positioning consecutive portions of said web-like conveyor means into operative engagement with consecutive mold members to shape each of said quantities of material of amorphous, dough-like consistency into articles of desired configuration. Thereafter the engaged portions of said conveyor and belt means move into said fluid cooking medium containment means. Guide means are arranged within said fluid cooking medium containment means which direct said operatively engaged article-containing portions of said conveyor and belt means through said fluid cooking medium in a submerged position and thereafter facilitate their separation as they emerge from said fluid cooking medium containment means, with the cooked articles being removed on said conveyor means in an attitudinal orientation promoting optimal drainage and return of the entrained fluid cooking medium to the cooking medium containment means.