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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7931923 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing a loaf of bread A method for manufacturing a loaf of bread of this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet,... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7910148 | Apparatus and method for beating and rolling a food dough belt A method and apparatus for beating and rolling a fermented dough belt between rolling members to release surplus fermentation gases in the dough belt has a first rolling member having a plurality of rolling rollers. Each rolling roller of the plurality moves sequent... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7654195 | Apparatus for making a food product Confectionery, such as a tart and pie, is sequentially made. A generally rectangular mold is filled with food dough. The food dough is baked and taken out of the mold. The food dough is cut and divided in a zigzag pattern into generally triangularly-shaped food doug... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7578232 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing bread A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet a cutting step to cut th... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7501139 | Method and an apparatus for shaping a dough piece An apparatus for stretching and rolling a mass of a strip of food dough to form a dough sheet is disclosed. A first conveyor (15) continuously conveys a mass of a strip of dough (9) along a traveling direction that is parallel to the mass of the strip ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7270051 | Apparatus and method for supplying food dough Apparatus for supplying food dough including a hopper to which a large block of food dough is supplied, a cutting apparatus located at a lower opening port of the hopper to cut the block into small blocks that have substantially the same volume, a dough feeder havin... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6955533 | Apparatus and method for extending food dough An apparatus for extending food dough is provided that is compact and has a relatively long conveying path for food dough that extends the food dough. Also, the apparatus can be easily cleaned and maintained. It includes a lower frame (3) having a food-convey... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6709256 | Apparatus for encrusting a filling material An apparatus for encrusting bean jam is provided wherein patterns for opening and closing movements and up and down movements of shutter members of a cutting apparatus can be readily changed. The encrusting apparatus includes a cutting apparatus (13) having a... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6685457 | Apparatus for supplying food dough An apparatus for supplying food dough forms blocks of food dough that are continuously supplied into a sheet or belt of food dough and then divides it into chunks of food dough that have preset weights. The apparatus for supplying food dough comprises a h... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6524090 | Apparatus for supplying food dough An apparatus for supplying food dough forms blocks of food dough that are continuously supplied into a sheet or belt of food dough and then divides it into chunks of food dough that have preset weights. The apparatus for supplying food dough comprises a h... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6408899 | Apparatus for encrusting a filling material An apparatus for encrusting a filling material is provided. The apparatus includes a screw-transferring apparatus to transfer a filling material and encrusting material, and vane pumps to transfer the respective filling and encrusting materials to a combi... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6332739 | Powder supply system and powder supplying unit used in the system A powder supply system including a powder replenishment device as a powder source, a suction device and a plurality of powder supply units connected in series. Each of the powder supply units sprinkles powders toward an object mounted on each processing d... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6257861 | Apparatus for stretching bread dough An apparatus is provided for stretching bread dough and the like comprising a rotating member that includes a plurality of planetary rollers that revolve along a circular orbit, a conveying device provided below said rotating member such that a first gap ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6062373 | Method and apparatus for discharging a food material A method and apparatus for discharging a food material is provided, in which a plurality of supply rollers provided with grooves or ridges on their surfaces are circularly disposed to form a funnel-shaped space, into which space the food material is charg... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5967025 | Apparatus for cutting and shaping a spherical body An apparatus for cutting and shaping spherical products, such as filled dumplings, including a plurality of shutter members, each shutter member having first and second adjacent sliding surfaces and an elongated hole, a connecting member for slidably conn... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5927908 | Powder collecting and transporting device A powder collecting and transporting device can collect powder left on a conveyer after the powder is sprinkled on cakes and bread into a laterally elongated powder container, and transport the powder in the container to a desired location by air suction.... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5783218 | Mechanism for powdering bread dough being stretched An apparatus for stretching bread dough into a sheet is provided, wherein a plurality of conveying rollers are supplied with powder so as to stretch the bread dough without its adhesion to the rollers. To have powder adhere to a plurality of conveying rol... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5609094 | Apparatus for winding-up croissant dough pieces An apparatus for winding-up croissant dough pieces is provided. It comprises a conveyor, a pair of pressing boards, and a spacing means having a dough-piece detecting means. By the apparatus a triangular croissant dough piece is fed between the conveyor a... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5538414 | Apparatus for shaping elongated bar-shaped bread dough pieces A method and apparatus is provided for shaping elongated bar-shaped bread dough pieces. In and by this method and apparatus a bread dough piece, namely, a bread dough sheet, a divided bread dough mass, or a preshaped bread dough roll, is subjected to a fi... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5516538 | Method of adjusting the position of a rolled-up end in croissant dough-piece bending folding apparatus The present invention is related to the method of positioning a rolled-up end of a fusiform croissant dough piece at a predetermined location of the dough piece when it is conveyed by a conveyor. The rolled-up end is sensed by a sensing means while the do... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5505970 | Method and apparatus for quantifying a dough product A method and apparatus for delivering a constant amount of dough per unit time is disclosed. Successive dough blocks (5) are transferred on a first conveyor (8) at times proportional to their weights. The predetermined theoretical traveling distances of t... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5460081 | Center-aligning apparatus for croissant dough pieces The present invention provides a center-aligning apparatus for fusiform bread dough pieces such as rolled-up croissant dough pieces. In this invention an upstream conveyor and a downstream conveyor located below and adjacent the upstream conveyor are prov... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5440974 | Croissant dough-piece bending apparatus The present invention provides a croissant dough-piece bending apparatus having a conveyor for conveying rolled-up croissant dough pieces, a dough-piece bending member to push the central portion of the dough piece downstream, and a pair of swingable doug... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5382154 | Method and device for aligning and bending individual round elongated dough pieces A device (24) for aligning with a feeding line (8) of a moving transfer conveyor (3) and for bending a round elongated dough piece (13) randomly placed on the moving transfer conveyor for transfer, comprising a pair of stoppers (26, 26) symmetrically arra... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5313880 | Apparatus for dividing bread dough or the like An apparatus for dividing bread dough or the like is provided, which comprises a dough-cutting member comprising a saw blade means, two dough-supporting members, and a drive means for reciprocating the saw blade means, and by which a plastic material such... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5289764 | Apparatus for dividing bread dough or the like An apparatus for dividing bread dough or the like is provided, which comprises a dough-cutting member (38) comprising a saw blade means, two dough-supporting members (30, 56), a drive means for reciprocating the saw blade means, and a discharge means (57)... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5281120 | Apparatus for producing croissants with fillings An apparatus for producing croissants with fillings includes a filling-depositing stage for depositing a filling on a croissant dough piece that is being conveyed in a downstream direction, a rolling-up preparation stage positioned downstream of the filli... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5112631 | Method of continuously producing strudels containing cake or cake and a filling A method of continuously producing strudels containing cake is provided, by which cake dough is continuously enveloped by a continuous pastry dough sheet to form a continuous pastry dough body containing cake dough, which body is cut into pastry dough pie... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4995804 | Apparatus for quantitatively extruding food material An apparatus for quantatively extruding food material is provided. In this apparatus the material is introduced into a space formed between the periphery of a drum and the side wall of a housing. The space is divided into sections defined by flanges, and ... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4788071 | Method for quantitatively extruding food material An apparatus and method for quantitatively extruding food material is provided. The apparatus comprises a hopper, a frame supporting the hopper and having a chamber therein with first and second ports, to which a nozzle and a piston and cylinder assembly ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4669967 | Apparatus for quantitatively extruding food material An apparatus for quantitatively extruding food material is provided. The apparatus comprises a hopper, a frame supporting the hopper and having a chamber therein with first and second ports, to which a nozzle and a piston and cylinder assembly are connected, a... | 06/02/1987 |
