APPARATUS FOR FORMING SHAPED POTATO PIECES FROM POTATO DOUGH

摘要

Apparatus for combining a dry potato product with water so as to reconstitute the same into a firm potato dough. Apparatus for forming such dough into shaped potato pieces, such as french fry cut potato pieces. An impervious chamber for receiving the dry product and water, and a seal plate associated with the chamber for closing the chamber during reconstitution of the dough and for opening the chamber to permit ejection of the dough therefrom. An improved apparatus for forming the dough into shaped potato pieces as it is ejected from the chamber. A mechanism for metering a precise amount of the dry product into the chamber. A mechanism for metering a precise amount of water at a precisely controlled temperature into the chamber.