US 11,896,014 B2
Method and apparatus for shaping pizza dough
Mario Morello, Ceranesi (IT)
Assigned to MORELLO FORNI DI MORELLO MARCO & C. S.A.S., Ceranesi (IT)
Appl. No. 16/652,864
Filed by MORELLO FORNI DI MORELLO MARCO & C. S.A.S., Ceranesi (IT)
PCT Filed Sep. 26, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IB2018/057429
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 1, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/069177, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 102017000111949 (IT), filed on Oct. 5, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0229450 A1, Jul. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. A21C 11/00 (2006.01); A21C 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC A21C 11/008 (2013.01) [A21C 3/028 (2013.01); A21C 11/004 (2013.01); A21C 11/006 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A machine for forming food doughs for making bases for pizza and the like, comprising:
a dough supporting diaphragm, which is at least partially deformable;
a cover or plate adapted to be moved between an idle position, in which it is raised above the diaphragm, and an operating position, in which it is set against the diaphragm, so as to compress a mass of dough laid thereon, and vice versa;
means for deforming the diaphragm, operating on that side of the latter which is opposite to the side whereon the dough has been laid,
wherein the plate is supported by an articulated arm, which can be actuated manually and/or automatically in order to move the plate into said operating and idle positions,
wherein the articulated arm comprises an articulated quadrilateral structure adapted to hold the plate in a condition substantially parallel to the diaphragm during the translations between said operating and idle positions, and vice versa.