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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7344371 | Rolled coned manufacturing apparatus A concave half (10) having a conical inside and a convex half (20) having a conical outside and being fitted therein are fitted in each other. An openable and closable, loop-shaped supporting means as a toggle-jointed link (30) rotatably support... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7316827 | Flour composition containing non-wheat cereal components, and pasta noodles produced therefrom The subject invention, therefore, comprises pasta noodles that have wheat grain and non-wheat grain in sufficient quantities as will form a matrix to provide the appropriate texture to the pasta noodles. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7205017 | Apparatus and method for beating and rolling a food dough belt A plurality of rolling rollers move sequentially upstream from downstream or downstream from upstream along the food dough belt, while each rolling roller rotates on its own axis. The moving direction of the rolling roller is changed according to technical requireme... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7132120 | Method and apparatus for producing a continuous food shaped as a bar and a belt conveyor used for its production A method for producing a food shaped as a continuous bar by placing a continuous inner material on a continuous strip of an outer layer material that is transferred on a former belt, comprising the steps of placing food material that includes the inner material plac... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7060314 | Method of and apparatus for producing endless rolls of a resilient foodstuff A method of and an apparatus for producing endless rolls of a resilient foodstuff, as well as a product in the form of a roll of hard cheese is provided. The method comprises supplying a layer (7) of the resilient foodstuff in a supply plane and against a fir... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6953596 | Method and apparatus for cutting dough with nested pattern cutters A method is provided for producing individual dough products, comprising the steps of conveying a continuous dough sheet along a travel path, engaging a first die cutter with a first portion of the dough sheet to cut a first portion of the peripheral shape of at lea... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6838105 | Dough product rolling apparatus and method for rolling dough products The leading edge of a sheet of dough product impacts an impacting feature and causes the leading edge to roll over onto itself thereby initiating a roll. Engagement enhancement is utilized to increased to increase the ability of the sheet of dough product to resist ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6783786 | Food winding method A food winding apparatus, system, and method of forming a rolled food item utilizing a slotted spool or cup and a push plate to eject the rolled food item from the spool. A food winding unit utilizes a motor to rotate a slotted spool. The leading end of a supported ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6777013 | Method and device of making dough mixed with cooking oil, fruit and vegetable filling The present invention of a method and device of making dough mixed with cooking oil, fruit and vegetable filling, more especially, a forward operation of making a dough chunk of a green onion crepe, is mainly characterized that it continuously provides a thin dough ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6254916 | Method and device for producing edible wafer rolls Edible wafer rolls are produced by baking an endless plastically deformable wafer strip from a flowable sugar containing wafer dough, directing the wafer strip continuously from the hot endless revolving baking surface onto a continuously rotating mandrel... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6171628 | Method for rolling up a sheet of dough To make a piece of bread, such as a croissant, an apparatus is provided to prevent a sheet of dough from being loosely rolled up, to prevent the sheet from being unevenly rolled up, and to firmly roll the sheet up. The apparatus includes a conveyor that f... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6165522 | Processed food and a method for making a processed food product for mass distribution A food product suitable for high volume production is formed of varied layers such as breads or doughs, vegetables, dairy products, meats and various spices and sauces. The product may be mass produced with a minimum of manual labor and includes an edible... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6106880 | Method for making a cylindrical food consisting of a plurality of concentric cylindrical layers A method and apparatus for making a hollow cylindrical food which is formed of a plurality of concentrically wound rectangular sheets with leading and tailing edges abutting against each other. The apparatus includes a device which shapes food paste into ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6010730 | Method and apparatus for winding up a sheet of dough A sheet of dough is wound up by a roller and a pressing device. The roller is located above a conveyor that conveys a sheet of dough. The pressing device is located near the roller. When the roller is winding up the sheet of dough, the pressing device mov... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5783222 | Dough molder A dough molder including a stainless steel case, a sheeter, a former, a compressor, and a removable cleaning tray. The sheeter includes a fixed roller, adjustable roller, and a scraper for each roller, where the gap between the rollers is adjustable. The ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5756138 | Apparatus and process for rolling-up sheet material A material sheet is conveyed to a hollowed pipe member which is rotatable about its longitudinal axis and which has one or more circumferential openings and which is positioned for, by vacuum suction via the pipe hollow and circumferential openings and by... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5538414 | Apparatus for shaping elongated bar-shaped bread dough pieces A method and apparatus is provided for shaping elongated bar-shaped bread dough pieces. In and by this method and apparatus a bread dough piece, namely, a bread dough sheet, a divided bread dough mass, or a preshaped bread dough roll, is subjected to a fi... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5348751 | Dough product Method for preparing a dough product comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a dough; (b) forming one or more sheets of said dough into a layered body (c) slicing the layered body in a direction transverse to the layers; and (d) pressing the formed slice. Preferably, the... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5338170 | Device for charging fillings A device for charging a filling material (6) with respect to pieces of dough (1) transferred on a transfer conveyor (2) comprising detectors (3) mounted on the transfer conveyor, the detectors being adapted to detect transverse shifts of the pieces of dou... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5330344 | Apparatus for forming dough An apparatus for flattening and, if desired, rolling of portioned dough pieces has a head machine that delivers dough pieces to conveyor belts by which the dough pieces are conveyed to a first endless running belt. This belt constitutes the support for a ... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5292539 | Method of continuously shaping bar-shaped bread A method of manufacturing various shapes of bread that comprises the steps of forming a continuous sheet of bread dough, winding up the sheet of bread dough traveling on a horizontal conveyor from one of its sides into a bar of bread dough, causing the ba... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5286185 | Method and apparatus for continuously shaping bar-shaped bread An apparatus for manufacturing various shapes of bread that includes a device for forming a continuous sheet of bread dough, a roller for winding up the sheet of bread dough traveling on a horizontal conveyor from one of its sides into a bar of bread doug... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5281120 | Apparatus for producing croissants with fillings An apparatus for producing croissants with fillings includes a filling-depositing stage for depositing a filling on a croissant dough piece that is being conveyed in a downstream direction, a rolling-up preparation stage positioned downstream of the filli... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5205106 | Rolled food item fabricating apparatus and methods A rolled food item is fabricated by advancing food (14) and a sheet of support material (16) between the rollers (18, 20) of a strip sheeter (12) where the food (14) fills grooves (24) of the first roller (18) to deposit the food (14) in continuous strips... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4994293 | Method for rolling croissant dough pieces An apparatus and method for rolling croissant dough pieces are provided. Dough pieces are fed between a pair of rollers with the surface of at least one roller being adhesive to the dough piece and transferred to an endless belt device via a transfer roll... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4954064 | Apparatus for winding sheets of dough on a dough reel and dough sheeter equipped with a dough sheeter winder The pivoting of a guide roller (20) together with a conveyor belt (19) running around it, as well as a pressing roller (25), from a standby position (A) into a resting position (B) is optimized both for thick dough and for thin dough. The pivoting operati... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4917590 | Apparatus for preparing rolled pastry products An apparatus for preparing rolled pieces of pastry includes at least four adjacent rollers having parallel axes, being capable of defining a substantially cylindrical cavity, being adapted to rotate in the same direction and being adapted to rotate at a s... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4849230 | Breadmaking method for the production of crisp long term preservation small loaves A low water content (lower than 40% bulk based on the flour bulk) breadmaking dough prepared from a high gluten content (proteins in excess of 12%) flour, is rolled until a visco-elastic characteristic breadmaking dough is obtained; metered amounts of the... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4842879 | Apparatus and process for rolling a sheet of pastry material An apparatus and process are provided for rolling a sheet of baked pastry material for forming a layered roll of the pastry material which may include layers of filling material in between the rolled layers of the pastry material. A sheet of pastry materi... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4828862 | Preparation of a rolled pastry product Pastry material is rolled by admitting partially folded pastry material into a substantially cylindrical cavity enclosed by at least four rollers which rotate in the same direction at the same peripheral speed. A gap is formed between rollers for admittin... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4795652 | Method for forming an edible food container A method of forming an edible food container from viscous dough comprises the steps of mixing the dough, forming the dough into a generally continuous sheet, and cutting the sheet of dough into generally parallelogram shaped pieces of a predetermined leng... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4761293 | Method of and apparatus for producing baked cones or cornets An imprint in edible ink is applied directly to a baked wafer or leaf which is formed into a cone for ice-cream or the like.... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4694741 | Apparatus for making rolled wafer cones In an apparatus for making a rolled wafer cone from a baked flat wafer blank made from a sugar-containing wafer dough, the baked wafer blank is rolled to form a wafer cone in a winding mold while the wafer blank is still in a soft, deformable state after ... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4624855 | Process for making rolled wafer cones In a process of making a rolled wafer cone from a baked flat wafer blank made from a sugar-containing wafer dough, the baked wafer blank is rolled to form a wafer cone in a winding mold while the wafer blank is still in a soft, deformable state after the ... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4600595 | Preparation of a rolled pastry product A process for preparing a rolled pastry product in which a sheet of pastry material advancing on a conveyor belt is cut and folded into discrete pieces of a predetermined size and then rolled. The cutting and folding operation is carried out by an oscilla... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4526795 | Method for producing croissants A method for the production of croissants wherein a continuously advancing dough sheet is severed into sections and ribbons of a filler substance are continuously extruded thereon prior to each section being curled upon itself as it continues to advance c... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4456662 | Electrical contact piece There is described an electrical contact piece made of a silver-metal oxide material as contact coating, a carrier made of copper, or iron and an intermediate layer which furnishes a high adhesive strength of the contact coating to the contact carrier eve... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4313719 | Device for rolling up pieces of material The invention relates to a machine for rolling pieces of soft material in leaf form, more particularly food products, such as pancakes. According to the invention, the pieces of material are delivered on a substantially horizontal conveyor belt (1) and ar... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4276317 | Method for processing bread dough A method for the shaping and cutting of bread dough which forms the dough into a strip, stretches the dough by applying pulling forces to said strip, cuts the dough and overlaps the dough.... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4110482 | Method for continuously rolling up sheets of baked cookies A method for forming rolled sheet articles, such as cookies, which are rolled after heating, by advancing, preferably on a conveyor, the sheet tangentially into association with a roll-up roller. The roll-up roller is rotated at a slower speed than the mo... | 08/29/1978 |
