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Patent No. 5500234

Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product

A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.

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Assignee: C. van der Lely N.V.


Location: Maasland, NL
No. of patents: 88

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NumberTitleIssue Date
5873323Method of milking animals automatically while determining their physiological condition
A method for milking animals, such as cows, wherein the cows enter a milking compartment where teat cups of a milking apparatus are automatically attached to their teats. In the milk conduit system leading from the teat cups, sensors are placed to measure...
02/23/1999
5678506Method and apparatus for automatically cleaning the teats and udder of an animal after it has been milked
A method an apparatus for automatically cleaning the udder and teats of an animal, following milking, wherein after the teat cups have been automatically removed from the teats of the animal, a robot arm moves under the teats of the animal which sprays an...
10/21/1997
5568788Implement for and a method of milking animals automatically
An implement for milking animals, especially cows, automatically, is provided with teat cups. In the line system from a teat cup down to the location where the milk lines from the teat cups join, there is provided a vacuum-sensitive sensor and/or milk-sen...
10/29/1996
5390627Method of cleaning teat cups and/or after-treating the teats of a milked animal, an implement for milking animals applying said method(s), and a cleaning device applied in such an implement
An apparatus and method for automatically cleaning the teat cups of a milking apparatus. The teat cups are automatically removed by a robot arm from the animal's teats. Nozzles are provided which are automatically inserted into the openings for the teats ...
02/21/1995
5275124Milking apparatus
A milking plant for cows is provided with a milking machine comprising teat cups, which are connected separately to the teats of an animal. The milk obtained from each udder quarter is conveyed through a separate line to a milk measuring device. The milk ...
01/04/1994
5272997Milking apparatus
A milking plant for cows is provided with a milking machine comprising teat cups, which are connected separately to the teats of an animal. The milk obtained from each udder quarter is conveyed through a separate line to a milk measuring device. The milk ...
12/28/1993
5195455Arrangement for keeping dairy animals clean
A device for maintaining dairy animals and surface areas where they may be confined in a clean condition, and providing a station for feeding, milking and elimination of wastes which is movable as a unit. The station has a waste disposal at the rear and a...
03/23/1993
5195456Milking apparatus
A milking plant for cows is provided with a milking machine comprising teat cups, which are connected separately to the teats of an animal. The milk obtained from each udder quarter is conveyed through a separate line to a milk measuring device. The milk ...
03/23/1993
5111644Mowing machine
A mowing machine comprising a main frame has a plurality of driving units and intermediate pieces which are mounted alternately on a tie member. The tie member is under tension thereby pressing the driving units and the intermediate pieces together to pro...
05/12/1992
5088275Implement for processing mown crop
An implement for processing mown crop having a plurality of mower members and a crop processing member. The crop processing member has a hood and a carrier, to which are fitted tine-shaped elements by means of connecting members, that cooperate to process...
02/18/1992
5080040Milking plant
A milking system for dairy animals comprising individual teat cups attachable to the respective teats of the animal's udder, a measuring device to determine the volume of milk discharged from individual teats, a central vacuum system to aid the discharge ...
01/14/1992
5076042Mowing machine
A mowing machine comprises a mowing unit and a crushing unit, both suspended in a first frame, the first frame together with the mowing unit (8) and the crushing unit also being suspended either to the leading end of a second frame which is provided with groun...
12/31/1991
5042428Implement for milking an animal
An implement for the automated milking an animal, such as a cow. The implement comprises a segmented robot arm that can be adjusted to place a working platform in an initial position between the animal's front and rear legs generally below the udder. Moun...
08/27/1991
5018669Spreader for spreading granular and/or powdery material
A spreader for spreading granular and/or powdery materials having a hopper and rotary distribution members with ejection blades on plates located below the hopper. The areas covered by the two distribution members can be adjusted so that they substantiall...
05/28/1991
5004163Devices for spreading granular and/or powdery material
A device for spreading granular and/or powdery material comprising a hopper for material to be supported and at least two distributing members rotated in opposite directions about vertical rotary axes, material feeding means provided between the hopper an...
04/02/1991
5000720Shear pin coupling
A shear pin coupling between two members has shear pins accommodated in a holder which is releasably mounted on a coupling member. The pins extend through holes in a supporting flange ring which is a component of the member. Resilient packing is positione...
03/19/1991
4984418Mowing machine
A mowing machine comprises a main frame (6) made up of driving units (36) and intermediate pieces (35) which are mounted alternately on a tie member (42). The tie member (42) is placed under tension, so pressing the driving units (36) and the intermediate...
01/15/1991
4951450Mowing machine
A mowing machine comprising a cutter bar having rotary mowing members arranged thereabove. The cutter bar is connected for its support in two places to a carrier frame. One of these connections includes a flexible member, constituted by a resilient elemen...
08/28/1990
4903538Drive housing for a mowing machine
A mowing machine has a plurality of drive housings that are associated with the cutting units. Each unit has a carrying shaft that rotates a carrying unit which includes a carrying arm, cutting blades, and a covering disc. The carrying shaft is connected ...
02/27/1990
4884640Soil cultivating implements
A soil cultivating implement comprising a row of power-drivable, soil working members supported by a hollow frame extending substantially horizontally perpendicular to the implement's intended direct of operative travel to provide selectively upwardly or ...
12/05/1989
4864809Machine for working grass, hay or other crops on the field
The invention relates to a machine for working grass, hay or other crops on the field, provided with two rake members which are drivable about upwardly directed axes of rotation. During operation, the distance between the rake members can be changed by co...
09/12/1989
4860527Mowing machine
A mowing machine comprising at least three mower members which are arranged rotatably about substantially vertical axes on a supporting beam containing drive means. The drive means includes a rotating torsion shaft which is driven at both ends thereof and...
08/29/1989
4842202Spreader
A spreader for granular and/or powdery material such as fertilizer comprises a hopper having two delivery parts. Distribution members are provided under the delivery parts for broadcasting material fed to them from the hopper. The distribution members are...
06/27/1989
4838013Mowing machine
A mowing machine having a mobile frame, made up of a portion including the mower units and a support frame, which can be coupled by means of a pivotal arm to a prime mover. During operation, the mobile frame is located behind and offset to one side of the...
06/13/1989
4838207Implement for and a method of milking an animal
An implement for milking an animal, such as a cow, that comprises a milking parlor where the animal can be positioned so that a robot arm which carries teat cups for application to the animal's teats can be positioned between the animal's front and rear l...
06/13/1989
4834296Device for spreading granular and/or powdery material
A spreader has a hopper the lower region of which comprises a wall portion which coincides in part with a sphere and contains outlet ports for material to pass at an inclined angle from the hopper to a rotating distribution member. The free aperture of ea...
05/30/1989
4827704Mowing machine
A cutting unit for a mowing machine which is driven by means of beveled gears contained in a drive housing. The cutting unit, which includes a rotatable disc mounting pivotal cutting blades is resiliently attached to the units' upwardly extending drive sh...
05/09/1989
4805559Implement for milking animals
An implement for milking an animal, such as a cow, that provides for sensor guided, automated attachment of teat cups to the teats of the animal's udder. Following attachment to the udder the teat cups are released from the attachment member and remain co...
02/21/1989
4776157Machine for working grass, hay or other crops on the field
The invention relates to a machine for working grass, hay or other crops on the field, provided with two rake members which are drivable about upwardly directed axes of rotation. During operation, the distance between the rake members can be changed by co...
10/11/1988
4763844Spreading material on a surface
An agricultural spreader comprises distribution members (11, 12) which rotate to eject material such as fertilizer. The spreader can tilt to one side or the other so as to reduce the spreading distance on one side. This facility enables the spreader to be...
08/16/1988
4693062Mowing machine
A mowing machine has a cutter bar which is a plurality of drive housings and intermediate members between the drive housing held firmly together in compressing by a tie rod in tension. Each drive housing has a cutting unit which includes a rotatable disc ...
09/15/1987
4679384Mowing machine
A mowing machine which has a rotary cutting member rotatably journalled to a shaft received in a drive housing. The drive housing has connected to it a supporting skid extending under and forward thereof for engagement with the ground. The skid defines, w...
07/14/1987
4643360Spreader
A spreader comprises a hopper having two delivery parts. At the bottom of each delivery part there is a delivery member having an outwardly and upwardly inclined wall in which are which has outlet ports (29, 30) in it. The bottom of the delivery member (2...
02/17/1987
4641491Agricultural machine
A haymaking machine comprises a sub-assembly provided with two rake members, the sub-assembly being connected to a frame for pivotal movement about a pivotal axis that slopes upwardly to the rear. The center of gravity of the sub-assembly is ahead of such...
02/10/1987
4619106Balers
Instead of being bound by being wrapped with twine, wire or plastics sheeting, relatively large bales of crop formed by winding are made cohesive by pressing a pushing or penetrating member into the bales as the outer layers are formed. The pushing member...
10/28/1986
4561595Device for spreading granular and/or powdery material
A spreader has a hopper the lower region of which comprises a wall portion which coincides in part with a sphere and contains outlet ports for material to pass at an inclined angle from the hopper to a rotating distribution member. The free aperture of ea...
12/31/1985
4497446Spreader
A spreader comprises a hopper having two delivery parts. At the bottom of each delivery part there is a delivery member having an outwardly and upwardly inclined wall in which are which outlet ports. The bottom of the delivery member is closed by a distri...
02/05/1985
4476666Mowing machine
A mowing machine has a main frame made up of driving units and intermediate pieces which are mounted alternately on a tie member. The tie member is normally under tension to compress the driving units and the intermediate pieces together to make the main ...
10/16/1984
4465142Tractor with ground rotated member and driven wheel revolution counters and implement lift means operatively connected thereto
A tractor is provided with a wheel slippage control to regulate the load produced by an implement. Wheel slippage is measured by pulses received from tachometers measuring the rotation of a non-driven wheel and a driven wheel. These pulses are applied to ...
08/14/1984
4465211Weight indicator for material container of agricultural distributing device
A container for material such as fertilizer or seeds which delivers same to an underlying distributing device is mounted on a tractor so that the weight of the container and associated equipment is indicated to the operator of the tractor whereby the amou...
08/14/1984
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