307results about "Baked articles handling" patented technology

The invention discloses an auxiliary material mixing and feeding device and a hamburger production line, and relates to the technical field of food processing equipment. Wherein the cylinder body comprises an upper-layer cylinder part and a lower-layer cylinder part; the stirring and feeding mechanism comprises a stirring and feeding shaft, an inner spiral blade, an outer spiral blade and a discharging head, a discharging opening is formed in the bottom of the discharging head, a feeding channel is formed in the stirring and feeding shaft, and materials in the lower-layer cylinder part enter the discharging head through the feeding channel. Through stirring of the inner spiral blade and the outer spiral blade, sauce and crushed lettuce are fully mixed, so that the sauce uniformly wraps the crushed lettuce, the adhesive force of the crushed lettuce is improved, and scattering of the crushed lettuce in the adding process is avoided; through rotation of the discharging head, the mixed auxiliary materials can be uniformly spread on the hamburger blanks; when the piston ascends, negative pressure is formed in the discharging head, auxiliary materials remaining at the discharging opening can be sucked back, and the auxiliary material dripping probability is reduced.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of cake decorating machines, and particularly relates to a cake processing decorating machine with a lifting mechanism, which comprises a machine frame, a machine door is arranged on the front side of the machine frame, and a machine cover is arranged on the back side of the machine frame. According to the scheme, by arranging the brake motor, the worm and gear lifter, the guide column, the linear bearing and other structures, the rotating panel shaft can be driven to ascend and descend, the position of a cake can be adjusted for use, under the action of the gear motor, the speed reducer and other structures, the rotating panel shaft can be driven to rotate so as to drive the cake to rotate, follow-up pattern mounting operation is facilitated, and the production efficiency is improved. Through the arrangement of the gear motor, the stirring roller, the filling pump, the hopper and other structures, materials such as cream can be effectively conveyed, the position of the dynamic nodding nozzle can be adaptively adjusted in cooperation with the arrangement of the first air cylinder, the second air cylinder, the movable clamping plate, the straight pipe welding piece and other structures, and dynamic pattern mounting operation can be conveniently conducted on cakes so as to meet different pattern requirements.

The invention discloses a saving type sesame scattering device, and belongs to the technical field of bread production equipment, and the technical scheme is characterized in that the saving type sesame scattering device comprises a conveying assembly used for conveying trays along the x axis; the sesame scattering machine is arranged above the conveying assembly and connected with the conveying device through a frame body, and sesame scattered by the sesame scattering machine is linear along the y axis; the fitting plate is arranged at the outlet end of the sesame scattering machine and used for receiving the sesame scattered by the sesame scattering machine, a plurality of through holes used for leaking the sesame are formed in the fitting plate, and the through holes are distributed at intervals along the y axis; a sliding block of the electric linear module is connected with the fitting plate, and is used for driving the fitting plate to periodically reciprocate along the x axis, enabling the through hole to cut off linear blanking of the sesame scattering machine, forming a plurality of line sections with variable lengths for blanking, and fitting to form a target shape on a tray, so that the effect of enabling sesame to accurately fall on bread is achieved.

The utility model relates to an electric alloy cake rotary table which aims at solving the problems that an existing electric cake rotary table is complex in structure, unstable in base, not fine in rotating speed adjustment, insufficient in safety and the like. According to the turntable, the base and the turntable are made of high-quality alloy materials, so that the bearing capacity and the stability are enhanced; the motor is provided with an advanced electronic speed regulation system, stepless regulation of the rotating speed is achieved, and fine requirements under various use scenes are met; and meanwhile, various built-in sensors monitor the running state of the rotary table in real time, and a braking function can be quickly triggered in an emergency, so that the safety of a user and equipment is ensured. In addition, the rotary table is simple in structural design, easy to disassemble and assemble, and convenient for daily maintenance and operation. According to the utility model, an efficient, safe and convenient cake decoration tool is provided for a user, and the technical progress in the field of food decoration and display is promoted.

The utility model discloses a full-automatic bread production line which comprises an empty tray placing machine, an empty tray output line, a tray arranging conveyor, a first tray storing conveying line, a first tray returning conveying line, a tray storing and placing machine, a second tray storing conveying line, a tunnel furnace, a demolding machine and a second tray returning conveying line. Empty trays are placed in the empty tray placing machine, the empty trays are conveyed into the tray arranging conveyor through the empty tray output line for dough tray loading, and after dough tray loading is completed, the dough is output through the first tray storage conveying line and the first tray returning conveying line to enter a fermentation room. The fermented dough is placed in the tray storing and placing machine, enters the tunnel furnace through the second tray storing conveying line to be baked and then enters the demolding machine after baking is completed, bread is taken out of the stored trays, and empty trays obtained after demolding enter the first tray returning conveying line through the second tray returning conveying line to be recycled. According to the full-automatic dough baking machine, dough tray loading, baking, demolding, tray returning, cooling and packaging are completed in a full-automatic mode, the intelligent degree is high, the production efficiency is high, and the labor cost is low.

The invention discloses a food uniform sugar scattering device based on reciprocating pushing and conveying line collaboration, the food uniform sugar scattering device comprises a frame body, a conveying mechanism and a sugar scattering mechanism are arranged on the frame body, and the conveying mechanism is used for conveying external food to be subjected to sugar scattering; the sugar scattering mechanism comprises a transfer part, a first groove body and a second groove body are formed in the transfer part, the second groove body is used for allowing external sugar to flow into the first groove body, the sugar scattering device further comprises an adjusting assembly, and the adjusting assembly is used for adjusting the falling position of the sugar discharged by the first groove body or the transfer part relative to external food to be subjected to sugar scattering; the sugar scattering mechanism further comprises a rod body and a driving part used for driving the rod body to move in a reciprocating mode, the rod body is contained in the first groove body, when the rod body pushes out the sugar in the first groove body, the sugar contained in the second groove body is stopped by the side wall of the rod body and cannot fall off, and after the rod body pushes out the sugar and resets, the sugar contained in the second groove body falls into the first groove body. Sugar materials on the surface of food are uniformly distributed, and the production process is efficient and controllable.

The invention relates to the technical field of food conveying devices, and discloses bread fixed-area sesame sprinkling and recycling conveying equipment which comprises a conveyor, a sesame sprinkling assembly is installed on one side of the conveyor, a scraping assembly is installed on the other side of the conveyor, and a driving assembly is installed on the scraping assembly. A guide box is fixedly mounted on the lower side of the conveyor shell, the scraping assembly comprises a fixing frame fixedly mounted between the conveyor shells, a guide shell is fixedly mounted in the middle of the fixing frame, a mounting seat is fixedly mounted at the lower end of the rear side of the guide shell, and a second motor is fixedly mounted at the lower end of the mounting seat; a fixing shaft is fixedly arranged at the lower end of the front side of the guide shell, and second synchronous wheels are fixedly arranged on the outer side of the fixing shaft and the outer side of a rotating shaft of the second motor. According to the fixed-area sesame sprinkling and recycling conveying equipment for the bread, through overall cooperative use, sesame adhering to the conveying belt is collected, and unnecessary waste caused by splashing is reduced.

The utility model discloses a food starching machine which comprises a machine frame, a liquid collecting tank is arranged on the machine frame, a conveying net belt capable of conveying food materials according to a preset conveying track is arranged in the liquid collecting tank, a pulp spraying assembly is arranged above the conveying net belt, the pulp spraying assembly comprises a pulp box, a containing cavity is formed in the pulp box, and a liquid outlet is formed in the pulp box. The stirring piece is arranged in the slurry box and can rotate, the driving piece drives the stirring piece to rotate, and a slurry outlet is formed in the bottom of the slurry box; the slurry is stirred and turned over through rotation of the stirring piece, the flowability of the slurry is improved, the slurry is prevented from being deposited and blocking a slurry outlet in the bottom of the slurry box, it is guaranteed that the slurry is always in a flowing state, uninterrupted slurry feeding of the slurry feeding assembly is achieved, and the survival efficiency is improved.

The utility model provides dried meat floss sandwich bread preparation equipment. The dried meat floss sandwich bread preparation equipment comprises a lower conveyor, an upper conveyor, a slitting knife and a feeding conveyor, wherein the running direction of the bottom surface of the upper conveyor is consistent with the conveying direction of the lower conveyor, so that bread is clamped between the lower conveyor and the upper conveyor to be conveyed. When the bread passes through the slitting knife, the bread is cut by the slitting knife to form bread slices conveyed on the lower conveyor and bread slices conveyed between the slitting knife and the upper conveyor. When the bread slices located on the lower conveyor are conveyed to the feeding conveyor, the feeding conveyor extrudes the dried meat floss onto the bread slices, and then when the bread slices located on the lower conveyor are output below the slitting knife, the bread slices located on the slitting knife leave the slitting knife at the same time and fall to cover the bread slices conveyed on the lower conveyor. The style of the dried meat floss sandwich bread formed by overlapping the two bread slices is formed. The process does not need manual cutting and spreading of the dried meat floss, is relatively convenient, and can greatly reduce the labor cost.

A cake icing system comprising a) a mould (100) comprising a mould wall (102) having a top end and a bottom end and a height defined therebetween, the mould wall having an inner surface (104) which defines the width and the length of the mould, the inner surface having a perimeter length, the mould wall having a support surface at the bottom end (106) of the mould, b) a base (200) with a width which is less than the width of the mould, a length which is less than the length of the mould, a top surface (202), a bottom surface (204), and a side surface (204) therebetween, wherein the height of the side surface (H2) is less than the height of the mould wall (H1) and the base is removable and insertable into the mould, c) a liner (300) having a thickness (T3), a height (H3) and a length (L3) greater than the perimeter length of the mould wall, wherein when the system is in use the base sits on the support surface of the mould, and the liner engaging the inner wall of the mould, such that that an icing composition can be applied between the liner and a cake inserted in the mould, a kit comprising the mould, the base and the liner, and a method for icing a cake using the cake icing system.

The utility model discloses a bread surface decoration device, and relates to the field of food. The bread surface decoration device comprises a shell and a stamping decoration unit arranged in the shell, the stamping decoration unit comprises a multi-face stamping part, a sliding rod and a reset spring, the multi-face stamping part is rotationally arranged below the sliding rod, and a plurality of stamping parts are integrally formed on the outer surface of the multi-face stamping part. According to the bread surface decoration device, a rotating handle is rotated to drive a stamping part to rotate, so that a target stamping part faces downwards, then a shell covers the top of bread, then a pressing rod is pressed downwards, a sliding rod drives a carrying disc to move downwards, the carrying disc drives a multi-face stamping part to move downwards to make contact with the bread, and therefore the bread surface decoration effect is achieved. A scorched brown pattern is stamped on bread through high temperature, the pressing rod is loosened after stamping is completed, at the moment, the stamping part automatically shrinks into the shell under the action of the reset spring, and therefore scalding is avoided.

This utility model discloses a continuous and uniform material spreading device, relating to the field of food processing technology. The utility model includes an upper belt conveyor, a support assembly, a material conveying frame, and a reducer. The support assembly is fixed to the top center of the upper belt conveyor frame. The support assembly includes crossbars, mounting grooves, and baffle plates. Mounting grooves are opened on the tops of both crossbars, and two baffle plates are movably connected within these grooves. A material conveying frame is fixed to the tops of both crossbars. A reducer is fixed to one end of the material conveying frame, and a drive shaft is fixed to the output end of the reducer. Flipping plates are fixed in a circular array around the drive shaft. This utility model, by incorporating an upper belt conveyor, support assembly, material conveying frame, and reducer, solves the problems of uncontrollable spreading width, increased production costs, and insufficient initial material velocity during spreading, which easily leads to bouncing and affects the uniformity of spreading.

The present application relates to a kind of cake robot with fruit granule feeding device, fruit granule chamber is communicated with the quantitative box below, and the quantitative box is opened at both ends, when the upper baffle is opened and closed, the lower baffle is in closed state and does not move, the upper baffle is in closed state and does not move during the opening and closing process of lower baffle, to realize when the upper baffle is opened by baffle driving mechanism, the lower baffle will close the bottom of quantitative box, so that the fruit granule in fruit granule chamber will enter into quantitative box, by controlling the opening and closing time or opening range of upper baffle, the number of fruit granule in quantitative box can be controlled, when baffle driving mechanism drives lower baffle to open again, fruit granule after metering in quantitative box can be sent away from quantitative box, and given to subsequent mechanical arm, by closing lower baffle, the fruit granule with repeatable metering is fed, simultaneously, baffle driving mechanism only uses one driving source to drive upper and lower baffles to work, can greatly solve the land area and equipment cost, and realize the automatic feeding of fruit granule.

The utility model discloses a bread processing breadcrumb spreading device which comprises an installation base, an installation bottom shell is fixed to the bottom of the installation base through bolts, a supporting sliding plate is fixed in the installation bottom shell, the top of the supporting sliding plate is connected with a collecting box in a sliding mode, and a conveying mechanism is arranged at the top of the installation base. A spreading mechanism is arranged on the outer side of the mounting base; the scattering and covering mechanism comprises a mounting bracket, a material guide box, a material storage roller, a feeding hopper and material scattering holes, a material shifting mechanism is arranged in the material storage roller, and an adjusting mechanism is arranged on the side wall of the material guide box; bread is conveyed through the conveying mechanism of a porous structure, it can be guaranteed that breadcrumbs smoothly enter the collecting box during spreading and covering operation, waste of the breadcrumbs is avoided, the spreading and covering width of the storage roller is adjusted through the adjusting mechanism, and the spreading and covering efficiency is improved. The spreading range of the breadcrumbs can be adjusted according to the arrangement layout of the breads on the conveying mechanism, and the flexibility of spreading operation is improved.

The utility model discloses a cake multilayer sandwich filling mechanism which comprises a device body, the device body comprises a material extruding box, a feeding hopper, a filling nozzle and a filling device, the feeding hopper is installed at the top of the material extruding box, the filling device is installed in the material extruding box and located under the feeding hopper, and the filling nozzle is installed at the bottom of the material extruding box; the filling device comprises a first material extruding roller, a second material extruding roller and a speed reducing motor, the first material extruding roller and the second material extruding roller are distributed in an axis parallel mode, a first meshing gear is installed at one end of the first material extruding roller, a second meshing gear is installed at one end of the second material extruding roller, and the first meshing gear is meshed with the second meshing gear. According to the device, sandwich stuffing can be automatically filled into a multi-layer cake, so that the burden of workers on filling the multi-layer cake is relieved, and the cake production efficiency is improved.

The application provides an automatic feeding device for a piping robot, comprising: a first feeding mechanism for providing material with a specific flow; a transfer mechanism comprising a rotating table and a first driving mechanism for driving the rotating table to rotate, the rotating table being provided with at least two mounting parts, each of the mounting parts being used for mounting a cartridge; a second feeding mechanism, the second feeding mechanism comprising a material taking part, a second driving mechanism and a feeding assembly connected with the second driving mechanism; a conveying mechanism connected with the second feeding mechanism; and a controller electrically connected with the first feeding mechanism, the first driving mechanism, the second driving mechanism and the conveying mechanism. According to the device, accurate automatic feeding is realized when the piping robot moves, and continuous feeding is realized through continuous rotation of multiple cartridges, thereby improving the feeding efficiency.

The utility model discloses a wafer biscuit layering pressing device which comprises a conveying table, bases, a conveying mechanism, a pneumatic material fixing mechanism and a pneumatic feeding mechanism, the bases are evenly arranged at the bottom of the conveying table, the conveying mechanism is arranged on the conveying table, the pneumatic material fixing mechanism is arranged in the middle of the conveying table, and the pneumatic feeding mechanism is arranged on the conveying table. The pneumatic feeding mechanism is arranged at the top of the conveying table; the conveying mechanism comprises a first motor, a first driving roller, a first driven roller, a first synchronous belt, a second driven roller, a third driven roller, a second synchronous belt, a first conveying roller, a second conveying roller, a third conveying roller, a first conveying belt, a second motor, a second driving roller, a fourth driven roller and a third synchronous belt. The device comprises a first conveying belt, a second conveying belt, a PLC (programmable logic controller) and a pressing roller box. According to the scheme, the stacking efficiency of the cake blanks is greatly improved, unqualified products caused by errors are avoided, and then the pressing integrity is improved.

Systems and methods are provided for placing toppings on a product. In one embodiment, a system comprises a mandrel configured to dispense toppings from a supply hopper, and a topping distributor disposed least partly downstream to the mandrel. The topping distributor comprising at least one opening, wherein at least some of the toppings that fail to exit through the at least one opening of the topping distributor are directed into a reclaim hopper. In one example, the topping distributor comprises at least one rotating drum that encircles the mandrel.

The utility model provides sandwich equipment, and belongs to the technical field of food production. The sandwich equipment comprises a conveying assembly, a guiding piece, a positioning device, a pushing device and a lifting device. The conveying assembly comprises a plurality of conveying belts with the same transmission direction; the guiding piece and the conveying belt are arranged at intervals. The guiding piece is provided with a plurality of guiding grooves. The positioning device is arranged between the guiding piece and the conveying assembly and provided with a plurality of mounting positions, and each mounting position has an open state and a closed state; the pushing device is arranged on one side of the guide piece and can push the cake cover placed in the guide groove to the mounting position in the closed state; the lifting device is arranged on the side, away from the conveying assembly, of the positioning device and comprises a driving structure and a plurality of suction nozzles, and the driving structure can drive the suction nozzles to adsorb the cake covers located on the mounting positions in the closed state and penetrate through the mounting positions in the open state. According to the sandwich equipment, the production efficiency and production quality of sandwich biscuits can be improved.

The utility model relates to the technical field of waste recovery, and discloses a bread production waste recovery system which comprises a machine body, a storage box is mounted on the upper surface of the machine body, a plurality of circumferentially distributed storage cylinders are arranged in the storage box, and a rotating column is rotationally connected to the inner bottom wall of the storage box through a sealing bearing; and a cavity is formed in the rotating column. According to the bread production waste recovery system, dough which continues to be used can be stored by arranging the multiple storage barrels, full utilization of the dough is facilitated, the dough can be well stored due to the fact that the temperature in the storage box is low, flour is attached to the inner walls of the multiple storage barrels, and the situation that the dough adheres to the inner walls of the storage barrels can be avoided; and the crushing roller is installed, so that expired bread entering the machine body can be crushed, degradation of the expired bread is facilitated, the overall practicability is improved, and classification treatment of bread, dough leftover materials and the like is facilitated.

Disclosed is a sandwich crimping device 1 comprising a lid 2 and base 15, with alignment markers 16 located on the exterior corners of both. An opening, with internal rim 4, at the centre of the lid seats a removable food grater 3, for grating foods such as cheese or vegetables. Both lid and base have rounded teeth 6 and 18, in an interlocking wave-like pattern. The slightly wider top creates an overhanging lip 14 around the base. At the bottom of the crimper base are two adjacent release holes 22 which, together with a planar multi-purpose panel 9, facilitate the removal of crimped items from the device. The chamfered edges 19, at the top of the side walls of the base, allow the base to be inverted and used as a template to cut breads into a smaller size, suitable for use in the device. Detachable hinge clamps 12 along at least two opposing external faces of the side walls further secure the base to the lid.

The utility model discloses a pulp flattening mechanism for a cake pulp injection machine, which comprises a base, the pulp injection machine is mounted on the base, two rows of symmetrical supporting columns are fixedly connected to the upper surface of the base, a plurality of supporting columns are arranged in each row, the pulp flattening mechanism further comprises a conveying belt, the conveying belt is positioned below the pulp injection machine, the conveying belt comprises a support and a belt, and the conveying belt is arranged on the support. The conveying belt is connected to the support in a transmission mode through a belt, a limiting mechanism is arranged on the conveying belt, a plurality of connecting columns corresponding to the supporting columns are fixedly connected to the two sides of the support respectively, elastic pieces are arranged between the corresponding supporting columns and the corresponding connecting columns, and the elastic pieces sleeve the corresponding supporting columns and the corresponding connecting columns respectively. The side portion of the conveying belt support is fixedly connected with a vibration motor. The motor drives the conveying belt to vibrate, the conveying belt drives the cake mold and the packaging box on the upper portion of the conveying belt to vibrate, the packaging box enables slurry in the packaging box to vibrate, and the slurry is evenly dispersed, so that the surface of the slurry is smooth, and produced cakes are more regular and attractive.

The application discloses a kind of auxiliary material mixing and loading device and hamburger production line, it is related to food processing equipment technical field, including cylinder and stirring feeding mechanism;Wherein, cylinder includes upper layer cylinder part and lower layer cylinder part;Stirring feeding mechanism includes stirring feeding shaft, inner spiral blade, outer spiral blade, discharge head, discharge head bottom is equipped with discharge port, stirring feeding shaft is equipped with feeding channel, and the material in lower layer cylinder part enters discharge head by feeding channel.The application is stirred by inner spiral blade and outer spiral blade, realizes the full mixing of sauce and lettuce, so that sauce evenly wraps lettuce, improves the adhesion of lettuce, avoids the scattering of lettuce during adding;By the rotation of discharge head, mixed auxiliary material can be evenly spread on hamburger blank;When piston rises, negative pressure is formed in discharge head, and the residual auxiliary material in discharge port can be sucked back, to reduce the drop probability of auxiliary material.

A printer (10) and corresponding method of printing an image on a surface of a plurality of food (12) products by providing a system (10) having a printer and a debris collection system (300) with removable debris collection tray (310) for catching food product debris positioned within the printer and configured to capture debris generated during delivery of food products to the printer, printing on the food products, or removal of printed food products from the printer.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of pastry processing equipment, and particularly relates to a multi-station sweet-scented osmanthus scattering machine for pastry processing, which comprises a rack, a sweet-scented osmanthus hopper is welded at the upper end of the rack, a stirring device is arranged on the sweet-scented osmanthus hopper, a support is mounted above the rack through bolts, a mounting plate is welded at the top of the support, and the mounting plate is arranged on the rack. A grabbing mechanism is arranged below the mounting plate, a discharging flat plate is mounted at the upper end of the rack and located in front of the sweet osmanthus hopper through bolts, and an air pipe valve is mounted on the vertical portion of the discharging flat plate. By arranging an osmanthus fragrans hopper, a material placing flat plate, a material scattering disc and a material grabbing mechanism, osmanthus fragrans raw materials are placed in the osmanthus fragrans hopper to be stored, then grabbed through the material grabbing mechanism, then horizontally moved to the material placing flat plate, pneumatically blown to the position above the material scattering disc and finally evenly distributed through the material scattering disc, and then the osmanthus fragrans raw materials fall on pastries on a conveying belt below. Multiple stations are carried out at the same time, efficiency is high, and flower scattering is uniform.

The invention relates to a method for preparing cooked, mould resistant bakery products, comprising cooking a dough obtained by a sponge and dough type baking method using a poolish containing from 20 to 55 g / L of ethanol, preferably from 35 to 50 g / L of ethanol, and comprising, after cooking, a step of applying a solution to the surface of the cooked bakery product that comprises a live leaven and / or a live yeast.

The utility model relates to the technical field of jam feeding, and discloses a jam feeding device for tiramisu processing, which comprises a processing table and a mounting frame, a coating device is arranged above the processing table, and the coating device comprises a mounting part; and the mounting part comprises a concentric-square-shaped frame, a placing disc and a limiting piece. According to the jam feeding device for tiramisu processing, through the arrangement of the concentric-square-shaped frame, the containing disc, the spring, the limiting piece, the first motor, a limiting rod, a jam box, a second motor, a discharging roller, a worm gear and a worm, the second motor is started to enable the discharging roller to rotate for discharging, the first motor is started, jam can be evenly dripped on tiramisu, feeding can be completed by rotating the first motor by one circle, and the device is convenient to use. The efficiency is improved; and by arranging a material receiving box, a baffle, a second screw rod, a bolt and an L-shaped plate, the size of the internal space of a discharging roller is changed by rotating the second screw rod, the discharging width of the device is controlled, and jam feeding can be conveniently carried out on circular tiramisu with different diameters.

The utility model discloses a sesame scattering machine for automatic processing of hamburger bread slices, which comprises a blanking hopper, the two ends of the blanking hopper are positioned on a rack through bearing supports, a sesame discharging assembly is arranged at a discharging port of the blanking hopper, and the sesame discharging assembly realizes continuous and uniform discharging of sesame through rotation. A material guide disc is arranged on the portion, between the sesame discharging assembly and the baking tray, of the machine frame, a recycling assembly is further installed on the portion, on the front side of the discharging hopper, of the machine frame, and the recycling assembly is used for receiving excess materials on the material guide disc and recycling the excess materials. According to the sesame scattering machine, sesame can be evenly scattered on the baking tray, compared with a traditional manual scattering mode, the production efficiency can be improved, meanwhile, the consistency of produced products can be guaranteed, recycling of excess materials can be achieved, and waste is avoided.

A delivery tray, system, and method for automatically delivering food product to a printer for printing on a surface of the food product. The tray has a main body having a plurality of food product support surfaces spaced apart on the main body and each food product support surface configured for supporting one of a plurality of food products thereon and the main body further comprising at least one positioning mechanism corresponding to each of the plurality of food product support surfaces and each positioning mechanism comprising at least one positioning element for guiding the loading of at least one of the plurality of food products onto the delivery tray. The tray is coupled to a motorized base for automatic movement of the tray.

A system and method is provided for dispensing a substance into one of multiple patterns. The system includes a container to hold a substance and a pump in flow communication with the substance. The pump directs the substance from the container to a housing. The housing includes a first removable component with first openings that define a first pattern. The first removable component is in flow communication with the pump. The first removable component is replaceable with a second removable component defining second openings that define a second pattern different from the first pattern. The pump directs the substance through the first openings such that the substance forms a first pattern on a surface positioned proximate to the housing that is based on the first pattern of the first removable component.