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Abstract

An apparatus for making cookie pieces comprises one or more dies through which continuous ropes of cookie dough are extruded onto a moving band. The band then passes through an oven in which the cookie dough ropes are baked. The ropes of baked cookie dough then pass through a cutter where they are cut into individual cookie pieces. The cutter has a plurality of thin elongate blades which extend across the band. The blades are mounted on a carrier which causes them to move with the band at the same speed as the band during the cutting process. The carrier also orients the blades normal to the plane of the band and causes them to gradually cut the ropes by moving toward the band during the cutting process. The carrier then causes the blades to quickly move away from the band clear of the just-cut cookie pieces.

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