ABSTRACT
A machine for dispensing a ?owable topping material
onto a series of continuously moving circular pizza
dough shells, and for adding other topping materials at
one or more downstream dispensing stations. A power
driven dispensing valve is mounted over the conveying
path of the pizza dough shells, and applies a circular
pattern of tomato paste sauce onto each passing shell.
A speedup conveyor assumes support of the shells to
space them apart, and each shell is then momentarily
interrupted under a hopper at each of two stations
where a topping material such as ground meat, grated
cheese or other foodstuffs are applied. With this ar
rangement, the discharge rate of completed pizzas is
the same rate with which the tomato paste sauce is ap