Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| 20100018412 | MACHINE FOR PREPARING FOOD Machine for preparing food consists of a case (1), containers for solid and semi-solid groceries (2), containers for liquid groceries (3), water supply with a heater (4), liquid distributor (5), spice rotor (6), three rotating u... | 01/28/2010 |
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| 20090260524 | EASILY-CLEANING MULTIFUNCTIONAL SOYBEAN MILK MAKER An easily-cleaning multifunctional soybean milk maker comprises a motor, a blade, a head unit, and a container, wherein a lower cover of the head unit being capped on the container, characterized in that a flow guider is securely fastened to the lower cover of the head ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090238936 | Food-product preparation kit, food-product preparation apparatus, and methods of use Embodiments relate to food-product preparation kits and food-product preparation apparatuses. In one embodiment, a food-product preparation kit includes at least one support including a plurality of support slots, a food-product preparation apparatus, and at least one r... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090211459 | DEODORIZATION DEVICE OF COOKING APPARATUS AND COOKING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE DEODORIZATION DEVICE A deodorization device of a cooking apparatus and a cooking apparatus having the deodorization device are disclosed. Because a discharge space is formed between first and second discharging units and air containing an odorant material entirely passes through the dischar... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090205509 | Device for Preserving, Cooking and Automatically Dispensing Dough Based Products, Such as Bread The invention relates to a device for preserving, cooking and automatically dispensing dough-based products, such as bread. The inventive device is characterised in that it comprises an area (12) for storing frozen products and an area (16) for cooking sam... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090169694 | Method and Apparatus for Producing Fruit Leather from a Fruit Mass A method and an apparatus (100, 100′) serve to continuously produce fruit leather from a fruit mass. The fruit leather does not include added sugar or fat. The fruit mass includes a share of dry substance of at least 50% and a share of water. The fruit mass exp... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090159067 | Receiver hitch mounted cooking unit and method of using same An apparatus that is selectively attachable to a vehicle, for transporting a cooking device and positioning the cooking device so as to also permit access to the vehicle. The apparatus includes a hitch insertion member for insertion into a trailer hitch, and a mounting ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090092718 | Ultra-high temperature oven for processing fish and seafood An oven and method of processing products such as fish and shellfish are disclosed. The oven may include a chamber that may be heated to ultra-high temperatures, such as within a range of about 600-2500° F. (315-1371° C.). A burner may heat the chamber from an exterio... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090071345 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING A STEAM CHAMBER A method and apparatus for filling a steam chamber. In one exemplary embodiment, a steam chamber is placed in selective communication with a vacuum pump and a heat transfer medium, such as a source of deaerated water. The steam chamber is then placed in communication wi... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090068338 | ROASTING DEVICE FOR VEGETABLE BULK MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A ROASTING DEVICE FOR VEGETABLE BULK MATERIAL A roasting device for vegetable bulk material, in particular coffee beans, comprises a roasting container for roasting said vegetable bulk material. The roasting container has connected therewith a gas heating furnace for supplying heated gases to the roasting container... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090049991 | Barbecue gridiron A barbecue gridiron includes an upper board part, and a lower board part; the upper and the lower board parts have many meshes thereon; the upper and the lower board parts are secured together to constitute a mesh-like barbecue gridiron member; the meshes of the upper b... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090049992 | Barbecue gridiron A barbecue gridiron includes a hollow pipe; the hollow pipe winds so as to become a mesh-like barbecue gridiron member including many pipe sections, which are in communication with and substantially parallel to each other; connecting pipes are connected to two ends of t... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090025568 | DRAWER-TYPE COOKING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPENING AND CLOSING OF DOOR THEREOF A drawer-type cooking device and a method for controlling opening and closing of a door thereof, in which an opening/closing direction and an absolute position of a door by a manual opening/closing operation by a user can be detected with a simple structure even when th... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080302253 | Vacuum cooking apparatus for household use A vacuum cooking apparatus for household use, comprising, on a supporting structure which has a column-like extension, at least one unit for packaging in pouches in vacuum food products to be cooked, at least one unit for cooking the food products arranged in pouches an... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080289511 | Combination grilling basket and tool set A combination cooking basket and cooking tool holder having an upper and lower basket securable together to form an enclosure, and a cooking tool or tools releasable fastened in the enclosure for storage and washing as a unit, the components being separable for use whil... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080271611 | Machine for heating and dispensing liquid or semi-liquid food products The machine for heating and dispensing liquid or semi-liquid food products comprises a tank for containing a product to be dispensed, a central body supporting the tank, a tap for dispensing the product from the tank, stirring means for mixing the product in the tank, a... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080237104 | FRYER DEVICE The present invention relates to a food fryer. The food fryer comprises a frying section where the food is fried in oil and an oil removal section where the oil content of the food is reduced. A basket located within the apparatus contains the food and is movable betwee... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080229936 | Steam Cooker and Steam Generator A steam cooker includes a steam generator for generating steam, a steam temperature-raising device for raising a temperature of steam coming from the steam generator, and a heating chamber in which an object to be cooked is heated by steam supplied from the steam temper... | 09/25/2008 |
