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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136748 | Grating plate for container/grater for friable food products A grating plate (1) for a container/grater for friable food products, in particular hard cheese, is described, which is contained in a base (10) on which a reverse cup-shaped element is assembled for defining a chamber for the product, the grating plat... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7837137 | Holder with shaft element for a device for mincing food A food holder for a grater or a slicer, having a shaft element into which food that is to be minced can be placed and through which it can be conveyed to a device for mincing foods that can be connected to the holder is characterized in that the shaft element has an... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7819350 | Grater for gratable food products A grater for grating of gratable food products with different hardness degrees. A cylindrical grater container receives a driver element which is mounted rotatively moveable and which includes a plurality of guiding elements, and which carries a feed disk at the sam... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7673823 | Food processor lid A lid for a bowl of a food processor for processing a relatively large size or large volume of foodstuff including a top lid wall and a feed tube extending from the top lid wall along a feed axis. The feed tube including an inner feed surface defining a feed cavity ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7469848 | Grater A grater for cutting, slicing and grating food. The grater including a housing having a peripheral wall structure and a base cooperating to define a receptacle. The housing including a skirt portion extending away from the receptacle and being engageable by a user's... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7337997 | Food slicing device A hand-held device for reducing the size of food items, for example by slicing or grating. The disclosed device has a slicing drum transversally inserted into an aperture on a lateral wall of a casing. Preferably, both the drum and its size reducing members, such as... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331538 | Safety grater A safety grater having a parallelepipedal base body, an attachment that slides back and forth along guide rails by slide bars and that has a cylinder, into which items to be grated and sliced and a plunger are introduced and having at least one grating insert that c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328864 | Electric grating food processor and grater plate An electric grating food processor including a food material receiving section 18 that has an opening in its upper part and receives processed food materials therein, a cylindrical food material charging section 68 that has a lower end opening at its l... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7318558 | Devices and systems for cutting food and products originally in block form A refillable cutting container device is described for whole block food products to be dispensed in the grated, shredded or flake form, of the type comprising: a container body suitable for receiving a food product in the form of one or more whole blocks; a cutting ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7299747 | Food pulpifier A pulpifier includes a holder having a compartment and a rear handle. A perforated screen is located in the compartment. A presser extends into the compartment and moves towards the screen. A front clamp extends from the holder for affixing the holder to a vessel su... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7278275 | Mechanism for dispensing shaved ice from a refrigeration appliance A mechanism for dispensing ice in each of three selected forms, namely, cubed, crushed and shaved. This mechanism includes a reservoir arranged to hold a supply of ice cubes, a dispensing zone, a delivery mechanism arranged for dispensing ice cubes from said reservo... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7258289 | Combination food cutting, storage, and shredder apparatus A combination food cutting, storage and shredder apparatus, having a cutting board and storage box containing a knife drawer and a garbage disposal drawer. A shredder is positioned just above the garbage disposal drawer and just below the cutting board for holding s... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252254 | Pill crusher and splitter A pill or tablet crusher and splitter using a combination lever and screw action. A lever attached to a ring having an internal screw thread advances a transversely movable platen towards a transversely fixed or placed anvil crushing a pill or tablet placed between ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7229038 | Pastel stick sharpener A device for sharpening and shaping pastel sticks, and for storing pastel powder collected. The pastel stick sharpener is comprised generally of a powder receptacle, a screen removably carried by the powder receptacle, and a lid for securing the screen and for selec... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7204440 | Slicing condiment grinder A condiment grinder has a main container with a top rotatable drive portion having Drive arms are rotatably mounted in the bottom portion of the container in a compartment formed between a flat top plate and a flat bottom plate having cutting blades formed therein. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| D537304 | Food grater | 02/27/2007 |
| 7152823 | Disc mill assembly for pulverizing system A disc mill assembly for a pulverizing system includes: a flywheel, a water jacket, two disc blades, and two ring clamps. In alternate embodiments, the disc mill assembly also includes: an air inlet to provide input air from an external air supply and an improved bl... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150214 | Vegetable cutter A vegetable chopper (10) includes a lower housing part (14), which has a knife (16) on its underside and receives a rotatable inner body with a chopping grid (20), the inner body (18) being fillable with the vegetable. Vegetable ch... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7117785 | Garlic press A food press includes upper and lower portions each having first and second ends, a plunger, a chamber, and a grate. The upper and lower portions are pivotally connected at their respective first ends. The plunger is disposed between the upper and lower portions. Th... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7070133 | Silo bin drill system and method of cleaning clogged bulk grain material A silo bin drilling system used for unclogging bulk material in a silo bin. The drilling system includes a hydraulic drill with drill motor. The drill is mounted above an access hole in a top portion of the bin. An access door in a bottom of the bin is used for form... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066071 | Food slicer A food slicer includes a frame with a food-receiving platform having an aperture therein. A reversible cutting blade has first and second cutting edges and is selectively removably mountable on the frame in first and second positions for respectively disposing the f... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7032848 | Method and apparatus for hydromechanically disintegrating organic matter An apparatus for disintegrating waste matter preferably comprising a holding area for holding waste matter; and a fluid delivery mechanism for applying high pressure fluid to the holding area, wherein the high pressure fluid disintegrates the waste matter and applie... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7004414 | Blade for food processors A blade for food processors is provided on at least one surface with a plurality of spaced cutting teeth, which are slantingly or perpendicularly projected from the surface of the blade. Each of the cutting teeth includes a substantially pyramidal projection and a s... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6974098 | Culinary press with scraper A culinary press (2) has a pair of pivotably connected members (4, 6) one comprising a chamber for receiving a foodstuff and having a perforated surface (18), and the other a plunger (24) movable into the chamber for, in use, forcing food... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6966510 | Electric rotary grater An electric rotary grater including an external cylinder and a roller being sheathed into the external cylinder and having a stirring plate connected to a blocking edge of the external cylinder. A chamber is defined each on both sides of the stirring plate which is ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6908053 | Ice shaver An ice shaver machine that includes a hopper for receiving ice, a blade and scraper for drawing the received ice across the blade, thereby producing thin, snow-like ice shavings or flakes, which are scraped to a spout, which, in turn, is provided for delivering the ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6896214 | Fruit grating tool A fruit grating tool includes a tube-shaped housing, a cap releasably connected to the housing, a pressing member arranged under the cap and biased down by a spring, a rotary member having a knob arranged on top of the cap, and a grating base arranged under the pres... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6860441 | Utility food grater A grater and method for grating, wherein a grating panel is connected to a handle with a gripping portion aligned behind the grating surface back side below the top end and above the bottom end and in a common plane with the directional vector, the gripping portion ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6539847 | Food processing device A food processing device comprising a pan for receiving processed food and having an open top, a support plate for location on said open top of said pan, a plurality of food processing elements each for location on said support plate, a food holder mounta... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6536691 | Apparatus for and method of shredding a product An apparatus for shredding a product includes a housing having an interior space bounded by a generally cylindrical sidewall that can include one or more contoured segments. The housing further includes a cutting implement, preferably also contoured, foll... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6467709 | Granulator of material A granulator for finely granulating pressurized raw material comprises a cylindrical body provided with an inlet and an outlet, at least two plates superposed on each other such that the plates are flush with the cylindrical body and assembled into the cy... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6328236 | Ice shaving apparatus An ice shaving apparatus which causes an ice block to be rotated against a cutting blade, the apparatus having a motor which rotates a shaft joined to a drive plate which retains the ice block, the shaft being joined to a piston head within a cylinder, wh... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6318652 | Grater A grater according to the present invention has a frame and a blade attached to the frame. The frame has a handle extended from a short side of the frame. A recess is defined in an inner part of the hollow of the frame near the handle such that the blade ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6315224 | Grater and method of making a grating device A cheese grating plate having a plurality of staggered rows of apertures, each aperture formed by fitting an insert into a hole or pushing a member into the hole, the aperture having a sharp raised edge around a substantial portion of at least one end of ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6135375 | Pyramidal food grater A food grater having converging faces forming a truncated pyramidal grater body to which is mounted a ball grip at the apex. Molded non-skid foot are on each of the bottom corners such that the grater may be held erect with the palm of one hand as grating... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5975447 | Caked grain breaker A caked grain breaker for separating caked grain particles in a storage bin. The device includes a top grate for positioning above the opening in the bin floor. The top grate has a plurality of apertures therethrough for permitting passage of grain throug... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5927625 | Hay cutting machine An apparatus for cutting hay, straw, or other agricultural materials is provided with an intake hopper which directs a supply of material to be cut into a holding chamber. The material in the holding chamber is separated from the material remaining in the... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5924636 | Pill crusher An elongated first arm includes a first arm free end and a first arm pivot end. A generally bowl shaped crushing member is disposed near the first arm pivot end. An elongated second arm has a second arm free end and a second arm pivot end. A generally bow... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5800854 | System for making pasta A system for making pasta comprises in combination a dough bin having a bottom, extrusion holes associated with the bin bottom, and a hydrated pasta dough mixture in the bin which extrudes from the extrusion holes. Due to the percentage of fluid ingredien... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5765768 | Plate for use on the outlet of a food grinder for making sheets of food A plate for use on an outlet end of food grinder comprises a generally cylindrical disk-like body portion having an axis, first and second generally parallel spaced principal surfaces extending generally perpendicular to the axis, and concentric inner and... | 06/16/1998 |
