Ronnie Lee Harden

US Patent:

55297978, Jun 25, 1996

Filed:

Sep 6, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/301984

Inventors:

O. D. McKee - Collegedale TN
Jack C. McKee - Collegedale TN
Ronnie L. Harden - Collegedale TN

Assignee:

McKee Foods Corporation - Collegedale TN

International Classification:

A21C 908
A21C 1500
A21D 806
A21D 1500

US Classification:

426410

Abstract:

A plurality of rolls of pliable backing material are fed through guides in which the configuration of the backing material is converted from flat to generally U-shaped strips. Unbaked dough is deposited into the strips as they feed forwardly toward a baking oven. The strips, filled with unbaked dough, are moved through the oven at a rate which enables the oven heat to bake the dough. When the strips, filled with baked dough, emerge from the oven, they are intermittently severed, advantageously by a high pressure stream of water, to create discrete baked products. These products are then conveyed for a time and distance sufficient to permit cooling, and are thereafter wrapped.