Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

A sandwich cookie making machine receives cookie halves from an oven. The cookie halves are then aligned by a servo driven aligner. The cookie halves are transferred to a first chain assembly that transports the cookie halves to a depositor where cream is deposited on every other cookie half. The cookie halves are then transferred to a second chain assembly that transports the cookie halves to a capper area. A series of tall and short lugs are fixed to the second chain assembly. The tall lugs push the cream deposited cookie halves and the short lugs push the non-deposited cookie halves. A capper wheel having a plurality of scoops spaced circumferentially about the capper wheel, lifts the non-deposited cookie halves from the chain assembly. The non-deposited cookie halves are rotated and inverted. The non-deposited cookie halves are supported above a deposited cookie half until one of the tall lugs pushes the non-deposited cookie half onto a deposited cookie half forming a cookie sandwich. The cookie sandwiches are transported to a stacker for sorting and packaging.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim