| 摘要 |
Pizzas are prepared by mixing a pizza dough, dividing the dough into single portions, forming the single portions into balls of dough, and placing the individual balls of dough onto individual pizza trays. The dough pieces are pressed to form a desired pizza base and, after proving, the dough is cooked to form a pizza base. The pizza bases are removed from their trays, a sauce is applied, followed by cheese and toppings. The pizzas thus formed are then frozen and packaged. A number of lines (1,2,3) of de-panned pizza bases are led along a conveyor (4). A series of detectors are used to detect the absence of a pizza base or gap (6) in a line. A base depositing means (10) is used to fill the gap (6) with a pizza base in response to the detection of the absence of a pizza base in the gap. <Fig. 5>. |
