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Machine for automatically making pancakes
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Inventors: Munier, Rene;
Assignee: Societe Industrielle pour la Construction de Materiels Automatiques (Dourdan, FR)
Primary Examiner: Feldman; Peter
Assistant Examiner: Cantor; Alan
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack
A machine for automatically making pancakes, includes a heated cooking drum which is rotatable about a horizontal shaft by drive means and which has, on its periphery, at least one raised surface area having a contour corresponding to the shape of the pancakes to be made, and which is disposed above a batter pan in such manner that the raised surface area is enabled, during rotation of the drum, to move into contact with batter contained in the pan, means for supplying the batter pan with pancake batter from a supply container, the pan having on at least one side a lateral wall, which is of lesser height than the height of the other walls of the pan and the exterior face of which is disposed vertically above an opening in the batter supply container, and means for detaching and removing the cooked pancakes from the drum and comprising a brush rotatable in the same direction as the drum and at a peripheral speed greater than that of the drum, the brush having flexible radial bristles which are arranged to come into contact with the raised surface area of the drum. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention overcomes this disadvantage, and its particular object is to provide a machine adapted to make pancakes completely automatically, without the need for the permanent presence of a supervisor.
According to the invention, there is provided a machine for automatically making pancakes, and including a heated cooking drum which is rotatable about a horizontal shaft by drive means and which has on its periphery at least one raised surface area having a contour corresponding to the shape of the pancakes to be made, and which is disposed above a batter pan in such manner that the raised surface area is enabled, during rotation of the drum, to move into contact with batter contained in the pan, means for supplying the batter pan with pancake batter from a supply container, the pan having on at least one side a lateral wall which is of lesser height than the height of the other walls of the pan, and the exterior face of which is disposed vertically above an opening in the batter supply container, and means fof detaching and removing the cooked pancakes from the drum and comprising a brush rotatable in the same direction as the drum, and at a peripheral speed greater than that of the drum, the brush having flexible radial bristles which are arranged to come into contact with the raised surface area of the drum.
In a new machine according to the invention, the rotating brush enables the raised surface area of the heating drum to be cleaned before a layer of batter is deposited on such raised surface, the raised surface area of the drum to be greased before batter is applied thereto, the pancake to be gently detached, and the raised surface area of the drum to be cleaned after the pancake has been removed, thus keeping the surface clean during the time when the machine is stopped, so that the formation of a film of dried batter on the drum after long periods of stoppage of the machine is prevented, and the sticking of the next pancake on the heating drum is avoided
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