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Title: Donut machine? Post by: scalebowler on January 13, 2010, 07:10:17 pm I was wondering if they ever made a donut machine like what is in the book Homer Price. I used to love that machine in that book when I was younger and was wondering if anything besides the one at Krispy Kreme ever existed.
Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: Creighton on January 13, 2010, 09:00:52 pm Don't know about the one in the book. There was a booth at the local Pumkin festival that had 3 units cranking out pumkin donuts. They were cool. Conveyor belt type device. Batter in one end donuts out the other. If I wasn't already too fat I'd be chasing one down.
Creighton Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: scalebowler on January 13, 2010, 09:11:28 pm That sounds really cool! I do remember I did see some movie that we got from the library where they took different chapters from the book and made a movie for each and they had the donut machine in it and it was working. Not sure if that is something they wipped up for the movie or if it was an actuall machine.
Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: scalebowler on January 13, 2010, 09:13:38 pm I found the video I was talking about.
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HowpkY-Aro Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uU0N5jBU3Y&feature=related Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB1Mca6K6p8&feature=related Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: Creighton on January 13, 2010, 09:49:08 pm This is similiar to the contraptions I saw in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8ufIXUx2s&NR=1 Creighton Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: scalebowler on January 13, 2010, 10:06:24 pm I searched google and found this http://wills-farm.com/bohaminternational/images/donut_machine.jpg
It is the exact same one that was in the video. Anyone know who made it or have any info on it? I would really like to see how it worked. Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: MCarter on January 13, 2010, 10:15:07 pm I seen one a festival ....it was called the orbirtor i think . I bought some and man were they greasy!! I look the machine up and it was expensive.
Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: MCarter on January 13, 2010, 10:17:02 pm Here is the web site : http://www.lilorbits.net/
Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: Creighton on January 13, 2010, 10:34:47 pm Can't recall who made the machines I saw. Donuts were top notch though.
Creighton Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: GreginNM on January 13, 2010, 11:13:11 pm I actually saw some 1978 donut vending machines for sale the other day. They were NOS in the box. Vend 2 donuts at a time!
Title: Re: Donut machine? Post by: scalebowler on January 13, 2011, 11:26:52 pm How funny is this. Exactly 1 year later I actually answered my own question. I actually found a picture of the machine online and saw that someone's parents owned it and that they donated to the company that made it and I was able to contact someone at the company and they sent me a few pictures of it and told me a little bit of history about it. I hope to one day build a small sized one sometime. Should not be that hard and I found the patent drawings from 1935 so I can figure it some ideas of how it works from there.
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