Nick A Bullick

US Patent:

47370920, Apr 12, 1988

Filed:

Apr 27, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/042988

Inventors:

Nick A. Bullick - Salt Lake City UT

International Classification:

B28B 1300

US Classification:

425142

Abstract:

An automatic dough cutter that is preferably for use in a mall type cookie store and includes pneumatically operated moving parts. The dough cutter is contained within a single housing that includes a vessel wherein the dough is deposited and is acted upon by a piston traveling therein to extrude that dough through a nozzle, the invention including an oscillating knife that is operated to swing a blade at set intervals through that extruded dough column cutting end sections therefrom. All of which components including covers, a chute, the knife blade, piston, vessel, dough conveying pipe and nozzle that contact the dough are removable for cleaning so as to limit a possibility of bacteria growth and contamination.