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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7854949 | Waffle sheet Disclosed is a waffle sheet as a long-life baked product, comprising one respective rib structure on opposite surfaces of a support layer. Said support layer has the shape of a corrugated plate (1, 10, 11, 12), e.g. with a sinusoidal or angular, trapezoidal u... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7811615 | Corrugated knife fixture with variable pitch and amplitude A cut vegetable product such as a wedge-cut potato includes a pair of cut surfaces oriented generally at an acute angle, and each extending and diverging from a common tip toward a heel. Each of the cut surfaces defines a generally wave-shaped configuration with a w... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7141257 | Puffed starch snack product The present invention includes puffed food starch material snack, in particular starch material from grains, having an improved crispy texture and a more aesthetic appearance and methods for preparing them. In general terms, the products are snack chips, cakes, crac... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7135201 | Puffed food starch product and method for making the same The present invention includes a method of making a puffed-food starch material snack, in particular starch material from grains, having an improved crispy texture and a more aesthetic appearance. The products may be snack chips, cakes, crackers or the like, made fr... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7067167 | Method for making sweet cookie dough having an imprinted surface Rapid, efficient, and systematic processes and apparatuses for making repeatable imprints on multiple, individual sweet dough pieces are provided. An advantage of the process is the ease of making uniform imprints that are aligned with the individual dough pieces as... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7033265 | Pre-portioned fish fillet and method of making same A pre-portioned fish fillet is provided by cutting a fillet from a fish and thereafter cutting through the flesh side of the fillet to subdivide the fillet into smaller portions. The cuts do not extend fully through the skin so that the fillet remains a single unita... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6942885 | Scored savory dough with toppings or fillings A ready-for-use refrigerated or frozen dough that is prepared from flour, a leavening agent, fat; has no greater than 0.5 weight percent sugar or sugar substitute; and preferably includes one or more toppings, fillings, or both. The dough has a surface that includes... | 09/13/2005 |
| D497702 | Wave chip snack having particulates | 11/02/2004 |
| D495852 | Ridged snack food chip | 09/14/2004 |
| 6790467 | Ready to bake dough with shaped, coextruded filling and method of making same A ready to bake dough product with a shaped filling is disclosed. The filling is sized and configured so as to minimize or avoid exposure or spilling during processing, handling, or baking. The shape of the filling is configured such that it has a shorter distance v... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6783782 | Grooved freezer-to-oven pizza crust A grooved, pre-proofed, freezer-to-oven pizza crust dough. The dough includes a top surface for a pizza filling, and a bottom surface opposing the top surface and contacting a pizza pan. The bottom surface of the dough defines a plurality of grooves which provide th... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6726944 | Method for making cookies A method for providing individually baked products comprising the steps of providing an uncooked dough sheet or block which has separable portions of predefined shape, separating one or more portions from the sheet or block and then baking the portions to obtain ind... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6676983 | Puffed food starch product The present invention includes a method of making a puffed food starch material snack, in particular starch material from grains, having an improved crispy texture and a more aesthetic appearance. The products may be snack chips, cakes, crackers or the li... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6627239 | Sweet dough tray The invention is directed to a ready-for-use frozen or refrigerated sweet dough which is prepared from flour, sugar, a leavening agent and fat, and which is provided in a form that includes grooves, score lines, or a combination thereof, to facilitate sep... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6511697 | Method of using germinated brown rice The present invention relates to a method of using germinated brown rice, a germinated brown rice processed food, a brown rice germination apparatus and a germinated brown rice filling apparatus. Germinated brown rice is boiled and steamed. The germinated... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6419972 | Starch-base puffed snack foods and process for producing the same There are provided a stick type expanded starch confectionery with a wave-like configuration on its surface and a process for easily manufacturing the same, which uses an extruder method. According to the process, the stick type expanded starch confection... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6413563 | Ready-to-brake refrigerated sweet dough A ready-for-use refrigerated sweet dough that is prepared from flour, sugar, a leavening agent and fat. The dough has a surface that includes grooves, score lines, or combinations thereof which define pieces of the dough to be broken off and baked into in... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6312743 | Cookie dough A ready-for-use cookie dough which can be preserved in the refrigerator and which is prepared from flour, sugar, baking powder and fat, containing between about 0.3 and 1.5% baking powder and provided in a precut form or in a form with grooves. Preferably... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6284295 | Ready to bake refrigerated cookie dough A ready-for-use refrigerated cookie dough and which is prepared from flour, sugar, baking powder and fat, containing from about 0.1% to about 1.5% baking powder and provided in a form that includes grooves, score lines, or a combination thereof, to facili... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6280783 | Ready to bake refrigerated sweet dough A ready-for-use refrigerated sweet dough which is prepared from flour, sugar, a leavening agent and fat, and which is provided in a form that includes grooves, score lines, or a combination thereof, to facilitate separation of the dough into pieces that c... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6235326 | Edible snack chip and method of making the same A method of forming an edible chip by providing a sheet layer of flexible, edible material, bending the sheet layer about a fold line to define first and second sheet layer walls which abut to each other at a location spaced from the fold line, and treati... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6190714 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing filled wafer blocks Filled wafer blocks are made by feeding preliminary blocks at a lower level to a stacking station and then feeding a wafer sheet coated on an upper side with a spread to that location, gripping them and inverting them as they are laid on the lower block t... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6190711 | Packaged cooked ground meat products and methods of making the same Precooked, packaged ground meat products and methods of making such products. The product comprises ground meat and at least one moisture-absorbing additive. The formulated meat mixture is formed into a raw ground meat portion. Perforations are formed in ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6117466 | Formed chips and method of production thereof Using a dough prepared by using a material containing at least 50% by weight ratio as dried of a preliminarily gelatinized starch material, a sheet in a predetermined configuration wherein grooves which reach the edge of the sheet are formed on at least o... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6068871 | Beverage preparation from a substance compacted into a cake and contained in a sachet A powdered substance, which is suitable for preparation of a beverage with an extraction fluid, is extracted for preparation of a beverage. The substance which is compacted in a form of a cake, is contained within a sachet between two sachet sheets which,... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6027753 | Wafer product and process of manufacture A crisp, approximately circular wafer product is provided whereby the two surfaces of the wafer each have a pattern formed by ridges, the first surface having a pattern comprising at least two grid patterns superimposed on each other, one grid being at an... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6024997 | Cookie dough A ready-for-use cookie dough which can be preserved in the refrigerator and which is prepared from flour, sugar, baking powder and fat, containing between 0.3 and 1.5% baking powder and provided in a precut form or in a form with grooves.... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6025000 | Beverage preparation from a substance compacted into a cake A powdered substance, which is suitable for preparation of a beverage with an extraction fluid and which is compacted in a form of a cake, is extracted for preparation of a beverage. The compacted substance cake is contained within a sachet between two sa... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5993871 | Stable, self-supporting taco shell An edible food container which is self supporting and stable in a generally upright position when placed on a rigid and substantially planar support surface. The edible food container includes a pair of spaced apart side walls and a base connecting the si... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5965186 | Crisp dough structure and method for imparting crispness to dough A method is described for forming dough product containing a filling. The method includes making projections on the surface of the dough product. The projections serve to isolate a volume of dough away from the main body of the dough product, so the moist... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5962050 | Pizza-type product having an increased length of exposed crust edge, and method of making A compound pizza arrangement includes an inner shell section and an outer shell section. A gap is formed between the outer edge of the inner shell section and an inner edge of the outer shell section, to prevent the shell sections from contacting each oth... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5935628 | Quick cooking pasta Long, thin and tubular quick cooking pasta having, in transverse section, a wall thickness of between 0.60 and 1.1 mm and teeth on the inner surface of the tube, which are longitudinal and parallel, having a height of between 0.3 and 1.6 mm and having a h... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5830519 | Microwavable food product A microwavable food product comprises a crust which is formed of laminated pastry or dough. The crust has a uniform thickness and is provided with a pattern of depressions formed on the upper surface of the crust. The depressions include a plurality of de... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5759608 | Method of manufacturing instant noodle strip having good reconstituting property Non-fried instant noodles are manufactured by kneading wheat flour together with water or water containing additives to form a dough, rolling the dough by a rolling device to form a dough sheet, passing the dough sheet between molding rolls having a plura... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5639498 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing food products such as pancakes, waffles and meatballs A method and device for manufacturing food products where the product material, initially in a substantially liquid state, is fed into the device and through the supply of heat or cold is given its final, substantially solid state, the device comprises el... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5614237 | Apparatus and method for making lattice baked food products Baked food products are produced by forming a flat sheet of dough and feeding the sheet to a nip between a pair of contra-rotating rollers arranged with their curved surfaces in contact with each other, and each of the rollers has grooves indented into it... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5538744 | Ridged dough structure and method of making the ridged dough structure A ridged dough product is made by a method for making a ridged dough. The method includes preparing a dough and processing the dough with a means for providing ridges and valleys on the outer surface of the dough, such as a die. The ridged dough product e... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5508049 | Pizza pie with concentric rings of crust A pizza mold for forming pizza dough includes a frame having a peripheral configuration which matches the desired peripheral configuration of the dough, e.g., round, rectangular or square. One surface of the frame includes a plurality of concentric caviti... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5431927 | Pet food product having oral care properties A pet food product prepared from a fiber containing nutritionally balanced mixture of carbohydrate protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, the product having an expanded striated structural matrix which fractures when chewed by the pet. The product when chew... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5419903 | Product and process of making biscuits with a corrugated configuration A process for producing biscuits comprises forming a dough into generally laminar portions each having a corrugated configuration and baking the portions to form biscuits. The corrugated configuration is such that the resistance to breaking of the biscuit... | 05/30/1995 |
