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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7396555 | Method for making a low carbohydrate dough A method for making a low or reduced carbohydrate dough for making snack food products with a reduced carbohydrate content. Legumes such as soybeans are cooked near boiling, drained, and milled. Dry ingredients such as starch, fiber, and/or protein can be added to l... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7378116 | Continuous formation of center filled gum Method and system for continuously producing pieces of liquid-filled gum material. An extruded rope of liquid-filed gum is sized and separated into individual pieces of gum. A rotating drum mechanism having a die ring and cutter ring with mating die members separate... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7351439 | Process for producing high-moisture, smooth-textured shaped cereal foods The present invention provides a process for making hand-held shaped cereal and milk products having a smooth, homogenous-consistency texture and a moisture content higher than 35%, using about the same amount and ratio of cereal flour to fluid-milk as found in a tr... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7288275 | Apparatus and process for forming pet treats An animal chew is provided formed by rolling a mixture of binder and base material into a sheet. Base material, such as an edible material, including but not limited to starch, protein matter, vegetable or plant matter, is mixed with a binder. The mixture is then su... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7264836 | Production of triple coextruded baked bar goods A triple coextruded baked good having a bar shape with a desired substantially smaller height than width, is continuously produced with distinct, at least substantially uniform concentric fillings which are visually apparent at opposing cut ends of the baked piece. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7238017 | Domestic pasta machine This is a domestic rolling machine for homemade pasta with the surface of the rolling rollers formed by anodizing metal to provide a micro-rough surface that considerably increases adherence thus reducing the number of passes for the sheet of pasta to reduce the thi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7232581 | Method for producing chewing gum granules and compressed gum products, and a chewing gum granulating system The invention relates to a method for producing chewing gum granules. The method comprises at least the steps of feeding a gum composition including at least gum base into an extruder (2), pressurizing the gum composition in the extruder, extruding the gum co... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7223431 | Method for shredding blocks of material A method of shredding a block of material, which can be a block of cheese, includes moving blades about an axis and feeding a block of material in a feed plane toward the moving blades in a feeding direction, where the feeding direction is substantially perpendicula... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7160098 | String hopper making machine A string hopper making machine has a dough container removably mounted in a vertical manner in a frame. An extrusion piston is mounted on a vertical rod extending through a vertical guide channel formed in a guiding block mounted on the frame. The vertical rod is pi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7097870 | Layered cereal bars and their methods of manufacture A layered cereal bar with at least two cereal layers having identifiable RTE cereal pieces and at least one visible filling layer in between the two cereal layers is described. In one embodiment, the cereal bar is a non-cooked cereal bar having a total nutrient leve... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097869 | Nutraceutical chips and production method thereof In this application are disclosed a method for producing nutraceutical chips, comprising the steps of: preparing a viscous liquid by use of at least one selected from the group consisting of vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts and seaweeds which may have been heat-treat... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7074450 | Dehydrated mash potato product and process A method for making a dehydrated mashed potato product by cooking fresh potatoes including defects, ricing the cooked potatoes by urging the same through multiple openings in a ricing barrier to form riced moist potato pieces exiting the ricing barrier separated fro... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072735 | Control system for utilizing active material elements in a molding system Method and apparatus for controlling an injection molding machine having a first surface and a second surface includes a piezo-ceramic sensor configured to be disposed between the first surface and a second surface. The piezo-ceramic sensor is configured to sense a ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7052450 | Silicone rolling pin A rolling pin including a core, a silicone-containing jacket over the core defining a rolling surface. The jacket may be of such length and so positioned on the core as to define end regions of the jacket extending beyond the ends of the core; the jacket end regions... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7033632 | Casting food products to controlled dimensions A device and process for adjustably controlling the dimensions of an extruded food product cast into a sheet using, for example, a pressure manifold mounted on a casting belt, or a chill roll/gauge roller combination. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7033161 | Roller manifold for forming a continuous sheet of viscous material The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for forming a continuous sheet of a molten material with particularly viscous, sticky properties. This molten material may be moldable, plasticized or a food product such as cheese. More specifically, the i... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7022362 | Method of forming confectionery articles The present invention is directed to a process for making confectionery pieces, comprising the steps of (a) providing a solid or semi-solid edible slab having at least three layers to at least two forming elements having a nip defined by the forming elements; and (b... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6903841 | Decorating system for edible items A system for creating a decorative edible item from a selected image. The system includes at least one image source, such as a scanner and/or a library of stored images, a controller unit and a printer. An edible media is inserted into the printer. The user then sel... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6887503 | Food product which artificially has been given a cell-like structure by coextrusion of several components, and method and apparatus for manufacturing such food product Two or more different materials such as food material are co-extruded through adjacent orifices of an extruder. The flows of the two materials are cut in a direction transverse to the flow to form segments of flow. These segments are interspersed so as to join upstr... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6878390 | Segmented rolled food item A segmented rolled food item is continuously produced using a rotating segmenting roller having a plurality of parallel circumferential lanes. Each lane contains a series of circumferentially spaced knife edges that are disposed at least substantially parallel to th... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6844018 | Method for mixing meat products to produce a pH adjusted meat product An intermediate combination is formed and then mixed to produce a final mixed product. The intermediate combination includes a first meat product preferably having a first pH and a second meat product preferably having a different pH. The first meat product in the i... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6838098 | Continuous formation of center filled gum Method and system for continuously producing pieces of liquid-filled gum material. An extruded rope of liquid-filed gum is sized and separated into individual pieces of gum. A rotating drum mechanism having a die ring and cutter ring with mating die members separate... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6805889 | Candy having a syrup composition dispersed with chocolate A confectionery product comprising chocolate or a fat-containing confectionery material together with a chewy sweet component having a base of a continuous syrup comprising a solution of sugars, sugar substitutes and/or glucose syrups in water characterised in that ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6797306 | Roller manifold for forming a continuous sheet of viscous material The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for forming a continuous sheet of a molten material with particularly viscous, sticky properties. This molten material may be moldable, plasticized or a food product such as cheese. More specifically, the i... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6797296 | Food product portioning Disclosed herein is a food product portioning apparatus comprising: a rotary-to-linear movement device; a support device, such as a platform, connected to the rotary-to-linear movement for receiving the food product thereon and moveable to position the food product ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6783778 | Energy-rich food flakes for fish and invertebrates and method for the production thereof The invention relates to a homogeneous high-fat food provided in the form of food flakes, to a method for producing the same and to the use thereof for promoting the growth, the ingestion of food, and the condition of freshwater and saltwater fish and invertebrates.... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6780452 | Method and means for curving sausage links A method of creating curved sausage links involves extruding an elongated sausage strand having linear protein fibers therein out of an elongated hollow meat emulsion extrusion tube. The flow of meat emulsion through the tube is partially restricted by a restrictor ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6764705 | Casingless flowable food production methods, systems, and associated elongated forming tubes Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) providing at least one forming tube having sufficient structural rigidity to be substantially non-deformable and having a preformed internal cavity space of predetermine... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6746702 | Method of preparing a snack product from a cooked cereal dough Methods for preparing puffed snack products from cooked cereal doughs, especially corn based, comprise deep fat frying cornucopia shaped pellets or half products. Methods for preparing such snack products include a steeping step of cut grain particles having a parti... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6743452 | One-dish frozen dinner product having an integral bread ring and apparatus for shipping and preparing same A one-dish frozen dinner product having an integral bread ring is provided. A method for making a one-dish frozen dinner product having an integral bread ring is also provided. The one-dish frozen dinner product preferably includes a receptacle containing the one-di... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6716470 | Method and apparatus for making an animal feed gel using a cooled pipe Firm, flexible animal feed gel are prepared by a method comprises the steps of: A. Forming a liquid animal feed at a temperature above ambient temperature; B. Passing the liquid animal feed through a pipe cooled to a temperature below the temperature o... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6649206 | Meat emulsion product Methods for producing meat emulsion products as well as products so produced are disclosed. Meat emulsion products are produced that have realistic fiber definition. The meat emulsion product comprises a body member including protein and fat and having a ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6623784 | Process for molding laminated candy and resultant products thereof Methods of molding edible laminated structures that have at least one first fluid material of a sticky or flowable mass interleaved between thin layers of a second fluid material is described wherein neither of the first fluid material nor the second flui... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6616958 | Method of making and using an edible film for decorating foodstuffs An edible film and method of making and using same for decorating foodstuffs, in particular baked goods, wherein anyone can easily, inexpensively and artistically decorate foodstuffs. The edible film according to the present invention is composed of an ed... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6616963 | Laminated candy products made by an extrusion process The invention relates to novel edible laminated structures that have at least one first fluid material interleaved between thin layers of a second fluid material wherein neither of the first fluid material nor the second fluid material is a hard candy mas... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6613372 | Method for producing an animal feed or food item and a product produced according to said method A method for producing an animal feed or food item wherein at least one first flow of a viscous mass solidifies under corresponding first process conditions and at least one second flow of a mass of similar viscosity as the first flow, which second flow l... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6592928 | Festooned laminated candy and methods for making same A festooned, edible laminated structures that have at least one first fluid material of a sticky or flowable mass is interleaved between thin layers of a second fluid material, wherein the first fluid material forms a pattern visible through the second fl... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6579555 | Confectionery food piece having colored fine line A complexly patterned extrudate is constituted by a confectionery food piece having a main body which is formed from a compressible material, such as foam. More specifically, the body has a first color and is provided with at least one fine line or plane ... | 06/17/2003 |
