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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7719564 | Plug-in kiln video camera and image processing system The present invention provides a video camera plugged into kiln to monitor and an image processing system using the camera. The video camera is composed of a camera body, a video recorder, a monitor, and a digital thermometer; the image processing system is composed... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7310109 | Protective device for safeguarding a hazardous area and method of checking the functional reliability of such a device The present invention discloses a protective device for safeguarding a hazardous area and a method for checking the functional reliability of such a device. The protective device has an image recording unit with an image sensor which includes a large number of light... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7215358 | Motor-less automatic extraction device surveiling inside of furnaces The present invention relates to a motor-less automatic retraction device that can insert a vision tube capable of monitoring the inside of a furnace to mange the internal state of the furnace and control the temperature of the furnace into the furnace and retract t... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7184076 | Fluid-powered inspection camera A fluid-powered inspection camera adapted to be operated in a contaminated environment where an electric power supply is not readily available includes a housing having a tubular shell terminating at an open end. An imaging device has a portion arranged within the t... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7155675 | System and method for focused navigation within a user interface An information system having a plurality of user options is provided. A graphical representation is uniquely associated with each user option. In response to a single user action, the graphical representations are successively displayed in a focus area within the di... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7098796 | Method and system for detecting fire in a predetermined area A method and system for detecting early fires in a predetermined area includes capturing a plurality of images of the predetermined area during an interval for generating a plurality of difference frames, and detecting a number of pixels that have fire characteristi... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7022407 | Polyester film for capacitors A film which is a biaxially oriented film comprising polyethylene-2,6-naphthalenedicaboxylate as a principal component, having a thermal strain ratio RMD (150) in the machine direction of the film at a temperature of 150° C. is −1.5%≦RMD (150)≦0.0% when the t... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013022 | Method and device for characterizing or controlling zones of temporal fluctuations of a scene The invention relates to a method of processing images of at least one flame or of a scene in a furnace, characterized in that it comprises at least one sliding statistical processing of the images of the flame which are captured in the course of a sliding time inte... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6924838 | Grenade cam A grenade cam is provided and is designed as a surveillance camera projectile. It is manually thrown or propelled by means of a grenade launcher into a visually restricted area or location of surveillance. Once the grenade cam lands in the desired position, four leg... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922211 | Scanning and cleaning device for explosion-proof casing for monitoring apparatus such as surveillance television camera operating in explosive environment An scanning device for a television camera sealed in a casing. An intermediate body is rotatable on a support about a first rotation axis. The camera is rotatable on the intermediate body about a second rotation axis by rotatable coupling mechanisms provided with re... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6909495 | Emissivity probe An emissivity probe for measuring reflected energy from interior wall surfaces of large scale boilers. The emissivity probe uses a pair of light guides which respectively receive light energy from the interior of the boiler and that reflected off a wall surface. Usi... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6903556 | Method and apparatus for testing laminated cores of electrical machines There is provided an apparatus and associated method for the testing of a laminated core (100) for an electrical machine. The apparatus supplies an excitation signal to the winding (102) of the electrical machine which is of a frequency higher than the... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6847727 | Infrared monitoring system having variable assignment of grey scale values A monitoring system suitable for a vehicle has a display which displays an image of the road area traveled by the vehicle. The system further comprises a controller which is capable of allocating differing sets of grey values held in its memory to the objects in the... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6806900 | Furnace video camera apparatus A high temperature camera apparatus having an elongated camera housing tube and an elongated camera support member, supporting a video camera at the interior end of the camera housing tube. A ceramic heat shield tube telescopically surrounds at least a portion of th... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6778209 | Furnace video camera apparatus A high temperature camera apparatus having an elongated steel camera housing tube and an elongated steel camera housing tube and an elongated camera support member, supporting a video camera at the furnace interior end of the camera housing tube. A ceramic heat shie... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6724467 | System for viewing objects at a fire scene and method of use A system and method for viewing objects at a fire scene allows fire fighters to view objects, including persons, in a smoke and fire filled environment. The present invention utilizes two different techniques to discriminate reflections from an object from scattered... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6686950 | Device for inspecting ventilation or air-conditioning conduits, or other types of conduits The invention concerns a device in particular for inspecting conduits of ventilating or air-conditioning installations, in connection with the cleaning of said conduits. Said device comprises a mobile head (2), designed to be inserted in the conduit (1) o... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6418804 | Fluid flow inspection and video recording system and method for turbine buckets An inspection and recording system for fluid flow testing of cooling passageways in gas turbine buckets provides readily observable visual determination of whether any blockages were formed during the manufacturing or refurbishing processes. The inspectio... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6335756 | Miniature videoprobe hockey stick delivery system The present invention is a miniature videoprobe system having a probe termination box, a strong back, and a videoprobe housing. The videoprobe system is able to obtain images from a restricted space at least as small as 0.125" while producing a high quali... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6325621 | Furnace observation apparatus A furnace observation apparatus for observing the state in a high temperature atmosphere furnace, which comprises an optical member to be inserted and disposed in a through-hole formed in a furnace wall of the furnace, made of a material having a softenin... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6313869 | J nozzle articulating camera system An apparatus for inspecting feedwater piping in a steam generator having "J" nozzles. A camera and light source are coupled to a yoke mounted rotatable wheel adjacent the end of an elongated flexible conduit. Control cables, for rotating the wheel, extend... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6239831 | Furnace video camera apparatus A high temperature camera apparatus having an elongated steel camera housing tube and an elongated steel camera housing tube and an elongated camera support member, supporting a video camera at the furnace interior end of the camera housing tube. A cerami... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6229563 | Camera insertion into a furnace A monitoring system for a furnace, such as one in which ceramic welding is practiced, where the temperature often exceeds 2000° F., allows substantially distortion-free, real time, monitoring. In order to monitor the furnace, a fluid cooled lance designe... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6111599 | Apparatus for observing a hostile environment An apparatus is provided for observing a hostile environment, comprising a housing and a camera capable of insertion within the housing. The housing is a double wall assembly with an inner and outer wall with an hermetically sealed chamber therebetween. A... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6091444 | Melt view camera A method and apparatus for continuously monitoring a melt surface is provided. The camera includes a CCD detector array, electronic shutter, and associated optical train mounted within a water cooled enclosure, all mounted within close proximity to the me... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6069652 | Furnace video camera apparatus A high temperature camera apparatus having an elongated steel camera housing tube and an elongated camera support member, supporting a video camera at the furnace interior end of the camera housing tube. A ceramic heat shield tube telescopically surrounds... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6022112 | Endoscopic inspection sensor for coke oven batteries An endoscopic probe includes an inspection head attached to the end of a longitudinally flexible supporting line which connects it to an operating unit provided with means for moistening the line. The supporting line (2) is rigid under axial torsion, whil... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6002993 | Apparatus for monitoring wall surface An apparatus provides a correct image of the surface of an inner wall of a narrow red-hot coking chamber of a coke oven. The apparatus employs linear CCD cameras (LC2 to LC5). The cameras are arranged so that optical axes thereof obliquely cross the inner... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5988079 | Unburned carbon and other combustibles monitor An unburned carbon and other combustibles monitoring and control system for a fly ash producing fossil-fueled boiler, such as a pulverized coal fired boiler. An infrared imaging camera counts the moving hot particles entrained in the hot gases downstream ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5878151 | Moving object tracking An image of the object remains in the field of view of the camera, thereby generating a continuously changing image signal. The images are captured and digitized in a continual sequence S of discrete images of the scenes at a respective sequence T of poin... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5838752 | Apparatus and method for carrying out workings at reactor bottom At a reactor bottom, varieties of work are performed by a working apparatus, the work includes inspecting, cleaning and recovering radioactive corrosion products and other foreign matters deposited or stuck onto a foot mirror of a reactor pressure vessel ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5835806 | Passive self-contained camera protection and method for fire documentation A self-contained camera enclosure provides protection from intermittent exposure to high temperatures and fire. The protection is provided without connection to electricity or water, and is practical for use in remote areas. Protection is provided by a he... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5831668 | Assembly for combustion chamber monitoring camera An assembly for a combustion chamber monitoring camera comprises an image-forming optical system (20) whose object space (26) is a combustion chamber and whose image plane (5) is coincident with the photosensitive element of the camera, and whose focal po... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5777668 | Furnace monitoring camera with pivoting zoom lens A furnace throat monitoring camera monitors the throat of a blast furnace through an opening defined in a surrounding wall of the throat. The furnace throat monitoring camera includes a wide-angle lens system for producing an optical image representing a ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5774176 | Unburned carbon and other combustibles monitor An unburned carbon and other combustibles monitoring and control system for a fossil-fueled boiler, such as a pulverized coal fired boiler. An infrared imaging camera counts the moving hot particles entrained in the hot gases exiting the boiler and provid... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5739845 | Optical imaging arrangement for use with radiation shielded enclosures An arrangement for forming an optical image of the interior of an enclosure contained within a radiation shield the enclosure being one in which remote handling operations are carried out on radioactive material and the shield having a passage therethroug... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5715328 | Method and apparatus for diagnosing wall of coking chamber of coke battery The present invention provides a method and apparatus for accurately diagnosing a state of damage on a wall of a coking chamber of a coke battery. The method includes accurately diagnosing the damage state of the chamber wall by combination of three detec... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5694480 | Molten slag flow rate measuring device and furnace facilities using the same Vortex melting furnace facilities picks up an image of molten slag flow in a direction traverse to the molten slag flow discharged from the furnace, calculates a molten slag flow rate by brilliance discrimination of the image pick-up signal and controls a... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5604532 | Apparatus and method for insitu inspection of pressurized vessels An apparatus and method for inspecting the internal surfaces of a pressurized vessel, without disturbing the pressurized environment within the vessel. A specially configured apparatus is inserted through an open bore valve and emulates a chamber having l... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5592217 | Assembly for combustion chamber monitoring camera An assembly for a combustion chamber monitoring camera comprises an image-forming optical system (20) whose object space (26) is a combustion chamber and whose image plane (5) is coincident with the photosensitive element of the camera, and whose focal po... | 01/07/1997 |
