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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 |
| 7423269 | Automated feature analysis with off-axis tilting One embodiment relates to a method of automated microalignment using off-axis beam tilting. Image data is collected from a region of interest on a substrate at multiple beam tilts. Potential edges of a feature to be identified in the region are determined, and compu... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7351948 | Safety system and method utilizing multiple laser beams for an industrial machine A method of operating a safety system for an industrial press having a moveable section and a stationary section, the safety system providing a plurality of continuous planar laser beams having a generally constant lateral width, each laser beam being spaced at vary... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7315018 | Machine tool analysis device and method The invention relates to a device and method for analysis of a tool (50) e.g. used on a machine tool. A tool detector (5) includes a light emitter (12) and a light receiver (34). Tool (50) when progressed into a beam (20) of... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7304815 | Laser system A laser system and interferometer are disclosed comprising a laser source for generating a laser beam, and first and second adjustable elements wherein the first and second adjustable elements have limited rotational motion so rotation of the first adjustable elemen... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295329 | Position detection system A position detection system. In representative embodiments, the position detection system comprises a support structure having a cavity, a first light source configured to emit light into at least part of the cavity, a second light source configured to emit light in... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7281402 | Method and apparatus for optimizing forging processes A method and apparatus for optimizing the forging of a workpiece that is moved along a longitudinal axis of a forging press. The method includes detecting the relative positions of the first and second ends of the workpiece along the longitudinal axis and calculatin... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7259873 | Method for measuring the dimension of a non-circular cross-section of an elongated article in particular of a flat cable or a sector cable Method for measuring the cross-sectional dimension of an elongated profile having rounded or sharp edges, in particular of a flat or sector cable by illuminating the article with light sources and determination of a plurality of shadow borders and calculating the pa... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256898 | Method and device for determining the position of rotationally drivable tools To determine the position of rotationally drivable tools in machine tools, the moment of separation of the tool to be measured and a measuring beam, for example a laser beam of a light barrier, is used. The tool to be measured is first positioned in such a manner th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253910 | Optical measuring device An optical measuring device capable of improving the precision of detection of contamination on a protective glass is disclosed. With threshold values as large as 90%, 50%, 10% of a peak value of a scan signal, measured values Q90, Q50, Q1... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7227163 | Product inspection system and a method for implementing same An inspection system and a method for using the inspection system, wherein the inspection system includes a collimated light source defining a source optical path, the collimated light source being operable to cause a collimated light beam to propagate along the sou... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7217071 | Method for testing the fit or imbalance of a tool In the method, a tool is tested for an aligning fit or an imbalance in a tool spindle. The tool spindle is set into rotation. A light beam is used to check whether the tool wobbles. The tool spindle and the light beam are moved relative to one another until the ligh... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7164126 | Method of forming a sample image and charged particle beam apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a sample image forming method and a charged particle beam apparatus which are suitable for realizing suppressing of the view area displacement with high accuracy while the influence of charging due to irradiation of t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7106451 | Frequency splitting laser micrometer A frequency splitting laser micrometer for measuring a displacement of an object. The laser micrometer includes a frequency splitting laser directing a first frequency splitting laser beam to the object via a laser output mirror at one end of the laser. The first la... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7038821 | Scanning apparatus A scanning apparatus comprises two rotatable bodies (1, 10 or 40) arranged to rotate in opposite directions. The first body being a polarizer (10) and the second being a mirror (1) or a second polarizer (40). The apparatus is arran... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7026227 | Method of irradiating a laser beam, and method of fabricating semiconductor devices When a CW laser is irradiated to a semiconductor film while scanning relatively during a production process of a semiconductor device, elongated crystalline particles extending in the scanning direction are formed. The semiconductor film thus formed has characterist... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6956661 | Device for measuring external and internal dimensions and distances between measurement objects Device measures external and internal dimensions of measurement objects using a light source for illuminating a slit diaphragm, in front of or behind which a spirally slotted disc is arranged, slit diaphragm and disc being rotatable in relation to each other and the... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6950250 | Light beam receiver for a laser positioning device A light beam receiver for a laser beam (2) of a laser positioning device comprising a diffuse reflection surface (3) embodies a reflection surface (3) and at least one reflector surface (4a, 4b) facing the laser beam ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6922254 | Method for measuring the diameter of an elongated article of a circular cross section A method for measuring the diameter of an elongated article approximately circular in cross section, in particular of a wire or of a cable, which may include some or all of the following: illumination of the article with a fan-shap... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6778286 | Apparatus for measuring distortion of cylindrical body An apparatus for measuring distortion of a cylindrical body includes: a stationary straight rail provided on a flat surface; a cylindrical-body transfer mechanism for rolling the cylindrical body such that a peripheral surface of one end of the cylindrical body rema... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6756906 | Self-diagnostic smoke detector A self-contained smoke detector system has internal self-diagnostic capabilities and accepts a replacement smoke intake canopy (14) without a need for recalibration. The system includes a microprocessor-based self-diagnostic circuit (200) that periodic... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6602716 | Method and device for referencing fluorescence intensity signals A method and device for fluorimetric determination of a biological, chemical or physical parameter of a sample utilize at least two different luminescent materials, the first of which is sensitive to the parameter, at least with respect to luminescence in... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6512536 | Cable and line inspection mechanism An automated cable and line inspection mechanism visually scans the entire surface of a cable as the mechanism travels along the cable=s length. The mechanism includes a drive system, a video camera, a mirror assembly for providing the camera with a 360 d... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6496273 | Position determining apparatus for coordinate positioning machine Described is a device which enables toolsetting on a machine tool. The device includes a light emitting unit (10) and a light detecting unit (14). A light source (30) causes a light beam (12) to propagate from the emitting unit (10) to the detecting unit ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 5844682 | Optical sensor device Whether or not an object is present, the surface state of the object, the material constituting the object and the presence of scattering bodies are discriminated through a simple arrangement which includes a light-emitting element for projecting light up... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5715843 | Method of and apparatus for measuring the diameters of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry The diameters of successive rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry are ascertained while the articles advance sideways at the periphery of a rotary drum-shaped conveyor and are rotated about their longitudinal axes as a result of frictiona... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5636030 | Optical method and apparatus for measuring surface topography of an object An optical method and apparatus are disclosed for determining characteristics of an object such as its size, shape, position, orientation, cross-sectional area, volume, surface topography and specific volume. The inventive method and apparatus utilize a l... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5563808 | Pilger mill mandrel measuring device A method and an apparatus for measuring a tapered cylindrical object, such as a mandrel. The apparatus employs a linear positioning table assembly with a slide mounting for a laser micrometer, an axial position stepper motor for moving the laser micromete... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5481361 | Method of and device for measuring position coordinates Two or three-dimensional position coordinates of a plurality of objects are measured without contact by installing at least one set of light emitting and receiving optical systems on opposite sides of the plurality of objects. During measurement, the ligh... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5457537 | Optical-electrical measuring method for determining cross-sectional dimensions An optical-electrical measuring method for determining cross-sectional dimensions particularly of elongate articles with reference to at least one straight line, which is applied to the periphery of the cross-section and contacts the cross-section at, at ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5400476 | Apparatus and method for controlling draft uniformity in textile sliver The present invention provides a drafting apparatus and method having a plurality of pairs of rollers which pairs are each driven in the same rotational direction and have silver contact points oriented along a common straight line. Sliver is fed to the p... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5383022 | Method and apparatus for measuring the dimensions of an object Laser beams from separate sources are deflected by a rotating mirror and travel over further mirrors and objective lenses into a measuring field for measuring the dimensions of an object 3 in the x and y directions. The result is a simple, compact configu... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5362151 | Device for measuring thermal expansion A device for measuring the thermal expansion of a sample comprises a measurement radiation generator, a base member incorporating a reference groove and a furnace. The furnace has an external reference contour adapted to cooperate with the reference groov... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5359418 | Photometric grinder and lathe gauge A photometric gauge for measuring the diameters of a workpiece turned about a central axis. The apparatus comprises a light source which scans a light beam across and on either side of a workpiece, to reflect scanned light from a mirror having an approxim... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5336898 | Method and device for automatically determining the dimensions of printing cylinders having a diameter counter The method and the device for automatically determining the geometrical dimensions of printing cylinders to be fed to a treatment process is based on the idea of attaching, to a crane installation (1, 10) provided for the cylinder conveyance, an on-off ph... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5311291 | Measuring method and device, in particular for measuring cigarettes, using a laser beam At least one dimension of the transverse cross-section of an object is measured in a predetermined direction by scanning the cross-section at constant speed with a laser beam which is moved in the plane of the cross-section but remains perpendicular to th... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5175595 | Non-contact measuring device A non-contact measuring device which applies a scanning light moving parallel at a constant speed to an object to be measured and measures the shape of the object to be measured in accordance with the time for which the scanning light is shut off by the o... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5160978 | Automated drill bit recognition system The invention is an apparatus and method for determining and identifying drill bit type in a simple manner that does not involve complex mathematical techniques. The invention utilizes a laser scanner that produces a plurality of crosswise diameter measur... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5118954 | Method and device for the geometrical characterization of transparent tubes Method and device for the geometric characterization of transparent tubes. According to the invention, in order to characterize a transparent tube whose internal and external walls are approximately cylindrical and coaxial, the tube is placed in the air a... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5069550 | Optical measuring machine with detachable operating board An optical measuring machine is provided with an operating board which is provided separately from the main body of the optical measuring machine and which inputs and/or outputs measuring information and a retaining portion for removably retaining the ope... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5070237 | Optical measurement and detection system An optical inspection system uses a fluorescent optical fiber to receive detection light and generate fluorescent light which then travels the length of the fiber and is detected at one or both ends thereof.... | 12/03/1991 |
