Abstract:
A cleaning system for cleaning the interior of an industrial food mixing bowl of, for example, a dough mixer includes a cleaning lance with a spray nozzle assembly at an end of the lance, an actuator operable to reciprocally insert and retract the lance into or out of a food mixer bowl, and a pump operable to deliver cleaning fluid under pressure over a conduit to the lance and spray nozzle assembly.
Abstract:
A device to mix and extrude various ingredients including pastas, pastries, baked goods, hors d'oeuvres, and cookies. The device includes novel measuring, mixing and extrusion arrangements including: an automatic measuring cup; a way to continuously mix and extrude ingredients without intervening cleanings; a mixing and extrusion feed for handling different consistencies of ingredients; an integrated automatic cutter; motor cooling and extruded ingredient drying; as well as various safety devices.
Abstract:
A multipurpose electric food mixing appliance specially adapted to mix and knead bread dough in combination with a blender device utilizes one power source to drive both the blender and the mixer. The appliance can sense when dough is properly kneaded and automatically shut itself off. The load on the appliance motor during kneading of the dough is monitored by monitoring the power supplied to such motor and the motor is stopped when the load on the motor begins to decrease after a period of increasing load. With an A.C. motor, the phase angle of power supplied to the motor while keeping the speed of the motor substantially constant is a measure of the load on the motor.
Abstract:
An automatic paste-producing apparatus which includes a vertical assembly constituted by a tubular chamber whose upper end communicates with a metering tube of enlarged diameter to which flour or other powder is supplied. Coaxially mounted within the assembly is a rotating shaft having a main screw section of uniform diameter operating within the chamber and a conical screw section operating within the metering tube. Slidable within the metering tube is a ring which surrounds the conical screw section to define an annular valve orifice, the ring being axially shiftable to set the size of the orifice. The flour admitted into the chamber by the metering tube is hurled by the main screw section against the inner wall of the chamber to create a thin powder film thereon which is then intermixed with a liquid to form a paste, air being drawn from the chamber through the main screw section to control the entrainment of air within the paste.
Abstract:
An automatic dough-processing apparatus which includes a vertical assembly constituted by a tubular processing chamber whose upper end communicates with a metering tube of enlarged diameter to which flour is supplied. Coaxially mounted within the assembly is a rotating shaft having a main screw section of uniform diameter operating within the chamber and a conical valve section operating within the tube. Slidable within the metering tube is a ring which surrounds the valve section to define an annular valve orifice, the ring being axially shiftable by an adjusting element to set the size of the orifice. The flour admitted into the chamber by the metering tube is hurled by the main screw section against the inner wall of the chamber to create a thin flour film thereon which is bombarded by the solution to form a paste, the paste being then kneaded.