Automated Pizza Assembly System

An apparatus is provided for assembling a pizza, including a pizza sauce spreading station, a cheese spreading station and a pepperoni applying station. A robot including a stationary base and an articulating arm having a gripper attached to the end is operable to grip a pizza pan having pizza dough...

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Hauptverfasser:	HESLIP SEAN M, HOEKSEMA BRET A, STROTHER DAVID, FRITZ-JUNG CATHRYN, MCCOY TYLER W, SCRIVANO DAVID, DEEMTER KENT A, THOMAS AMANDA B
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL ATOMISING APPARATUS BAKING CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES EDIBLE DOUGHS HAND TOOLS HANDLING BAKED ARTICLES MADE FROM DOUGH HUMAN NECESSITIES MACHINES OR EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING OR PROCESSING DOUGHS MANIPULATORS NOZZLES PERFORMING OPERATIONS PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS SPRAYING APPARATUS SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	An apparatus is provided for assembling a pizza, including a pizza sauce spreading station, a cheese spreading station and a pepperoni applying station. A robot including a stationary base and an articulating arm having a gripper attached to the end is operable to grip a pizza pan having pizza dough therein to allow said robot to move the pan throughout the pizza sauce spreading station, and to a rotary dial system including the cheese spreading station and the pepperoni applying station. The robot arm manipulates the pizza pan in the sauce spreading station and the rotary dial system manipulates the pizza pan in the cheese station and the pepperoni applying station to properly distribute the cheese and pepperoni on the pizza.