A device for spreading a runny batter on a hotplate for manufacturing pancakes or crpes, including a rotary shaft intended to be disposed almost perpendicular with respect to the cooking face of the hotplate, a plate fixed to said rotary shaft, said plate carrying a spreading and raking means, and at least one abutment designed to bear, run or slide on the heating face of the hotplate. The spreading and raking includes at least one rake, the working free edge of which is rectilinear, making it possible to spread a portion of batter previously deposited on the heating face of said hotplate and rake the thickness of batter as long as it remains liquid so as to redeposit a layer of material upstream in order to layer the batter and fill in the holes, reproducing the action of a person skilled in the art of making pancakes or crpes.

A funnel cake batter or other batter container with a stop-flow ball to prevent the discharging of CO2 gas into the cooking oil, a convex shaped bottom with a centered hole for improved emptying of the batter container, an easier to operate hand-held, trigger-activated dispensing gun wand, a J hook to hang the dispensing gun wand on when not in use, and a cast iron stand with four legs and four caster wheels making the batter container movable within a place of operation.

The present invention relates to a method and a filling machine for portioning pasty masses for the purpose of food production, wherein a pasty mass is fed by the filling machine into the filling flow divider, where it is separated into a plurality of mass flows and discharged in portions in the discharge direction. At the end of each portion the mass flow is sucked back in a direction opposite to the discharge direction.

A dough dividing system includes a hopper for receiving dough constituent including a hopper inlet and a hopper outlet, a divider assembly including a divider block including a divider block cavity, and a first actuator, and a receptacle including a receptacle inlet. The first actuator moves the divider block to align the divider block cavity with the hopper outlet, the dough constituent enters the divider block cavity when the divider block cavity is aligned with the hopper outlet, the divider block moves to shear a dough form from the dough constituent, and the divider block moves the dough form over the receptacle inlet such that the dough form can empty from the divider block cavity.

A batter injector for dispensing a layer of batter rotatable about a pivot point includes a main body defining a batter reservoir, an input port defined by an opening the main body in communication with the batter reservoir to receive batter in to the batter reservoir, a plurality of openings on an injector end of the main body in communication with the batter reservoir, and one or more valves controlling the opening and closing of the openings. An injera maker includes a frame, a controller, a cooking module, a reservoir module and a batter injector module. The cooking module includes a heating element and a closeable lid. The reservoir module includes a main reservoir tank and a valve to selectively permit flow through a conduit. The batter injector module has a plurality of openings.

An apparatus and method for depositing flowable material comprising a chamber housing that receives and deposits flowable material, a rotary valve shaft and a piston shaft inside the chamber housing, the piston shaft rotatable in synchronization with the rotary valve shaft, wherein the piston shaft and the rotary valve shaft form a volumetric pocket to receive the flowable material, wherein the piston shaft rotates between a position that expands the volumetric pocket to draw the flowable material into the volumetric pocket, and a position that compresses the volumetric pocket to urge flowable material from the volumetric pocket.

The injection and spreading system for cooking dough, in particular for preparing pancakes includes a dough container having an outlet, an injection pump connected to the outlet of the container, a spreader connected to the injection pump and configured to spread a dough on a cooking surface, an injection circuit connecting the container to the spreader, and a preventer of congestion for the injection circuit. There is also an injection pump, a spreader, a pancake dough premix and a machine associated therewith.

The present invention relates to a method and a filling machine for portioning pasty masses for the purpose of food production, wherein a pasty mass is fed by the filling machine into the filling flow divider, where it is separated into a plurality of mass flows and discharged in portions in the discharge direction. At the end of each portion the mass flow is sucked back in a direction opposite to the discharge direction.

A thin, flat bread-making machine targeted at the Ethiopian bread called Injera, including apparatus, methods and processes. The machine includes cooking surface stations, batter depositing apparatus and cover moving robot. A moving batter depositing apparatus deposits a batter at a stationary griddles followed by placing covers for a specified time to complete the cooking. When cooking is completed an apparatus/robot will remove the covers and the system alerts the end of the process to the operator. Removing the Injera from the machine manually and repeating the whole process again will complete the Injera making process.

The present disclosure relates to a method and a filling machine for portioning pasty masses for the purpose of food production, wherein a pasty mass is fed by the filling machine into the filling flow divider, where it is separated into a plurality of mass flows and discharged in portions in the discharge direction. At the end of each portion the mass flow is sucked back in a direction opposite to the discharge direction.