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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 |
| 8146387 | Method and device for crowning glass sheets A process and system for bending glass sheets heated to their softening point. The glass sheets are laid on a concave bending frame and prebent by gravity. The prebent glass sheets are transferred to a transfer former with a concave forming surface, the transfer for... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7950252 | Method of manufacturing formed article, support member, and forming apparatus The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article comprising forming an upper surface of a forming material comprised of a thermosoftening substance into a desired shape by positioning the forming material on a forming surface of a mold and... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7856851 | Process for bending a glass panel with a plurality of supports A glazing element-bending process including first to fourth stages. The first stage bends the glazing element through gravitational depression on a first support providing it with a first central depression. The second stage continues the bending of the glazing elem... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7841212 | Method of providing a shaped body made of glass or glass ceramics A method for producing a shaped body (10) made of glass or glass ceramics comprises the steps of: (a) placing at least two glass blanks (12a, 12b) side by side on a shaped surface (14) of a temperature-resistant sagging mold... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7775068 | Production method and production device for laminated glass A production method for laminated glass capable of performing a firing step for a fired substance and a bend-forming step to an inner sheet and an outer sheet in the same forming furnace when laminated glass having a fired substance between an inner sheet and an out... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7721572 | Method for reshaping glass-ceramic articles, apparatus for performing the method and glass-ceramic articles made thereby The apparatus performs a forced reshaping of a flat green glass part during a ceramicizing process in which the viscosity of the glass is temporarily lowered due to crystallization heat. The apparatus includes a continuous furnace (3) for the ceramicizing pro... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7401477 | Method for bending a glass sheet A glass sheet, which has been heated to have a viscosity of not lower than 105 Pa·s and not higher than 108 Pa·s, is pressed against a mold having a certain bending surface to be bent. There are a step for controlling a bending temperature T ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7331198 | Bending apparatus for a glass sheet A desired temperature distribution is efficiently formed on a glass sheet by a simple structure without lowering heat efficiency within a furnace. A heating furnace conveys a bending mold of a glass sheet and a radiation-heating device is provided in the heating fur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7311961 | Method of making coated articles and coated articles made thereby An article includes a first substrate, a functional coating deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, and a protective coating deposited over the functional coating. The functional coating and the protective coating define a coating stack. A polymeric mate... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308806 | Air-exhausting lehr for laminated glass sheets The invention relates to an air-exhausting lehr for laminated glass sheets, including a tunnel-like lehr, a conveyor, including elements for carrying laminated glass sheets in a substantially upright position through the lehr, and air circulation ducts, having fans ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302813 | Method and device for bending glass panes in pairs In a method for bending, in pairs, panes placed one upon the other, heated to their softening temperature, the pair or panes is deposited on a bending frame and prebent under action of the force of gravity. The prebent pair of panes is transferred onto a suction ben... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7240519 | Apparatus and method for bending glass sheets An apparatus for shaping heat softened glass sheets includes an upper mold having a full surface press face with a shaping surface generally contoured to the desired curvature of the sheets; a support device to support the sheets below the upper mold; a shaping rail... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231787 | Apparatus and method for bending and/or tempering glass An apparatus and method for bending and/or tempering glass substrate(s) are provided. The amount of near-IR radiation which reaches the glass to be bent and/or tempered is limited (e.g., via filtering or any other suitable technique). Thus, the IR radiation (used fo... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7232615 | Coating stack comprising a layer of barrier coating A coating composition that contains at least one degradable coating layer and at least one layer of barrier coating is disclosed. The coating composition can be used to make a coated substrate having improved performance over conventional coated substrates after exp... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7216510 | Method for the forming of glass or glass ceramics A process for forming glass or glass ceramics is disclosed, wherein a glass ceramics form (12) is made from a starting glass by molding, which is transformed by a heat treatment into a keatite glass ceramic comprising predominantly keatite mixed crystals. Wit... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7186952 | Heatable glazing panel with electrically conductive coating having both heatable and non-heatable coated zones The present invention relates to an electrically heatable glazing panel comprising a substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating layer which is adapted to be electrically heatable and is divided into a plurality of zones, some heatable and some non-he... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7155939 | Apparatus for bending glass panels The invention relates to an apparatus for bending glass panels. The upper tier of successive mould carriers defines a number of heating sections, the last one of which is an actual bending section. The lower tier of successive mould carriers defines a number of cool... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140204 | Apparatus and method for bending glass using microwaves An apparatus and method for bending glass substrate(s) are provided. Microwave radiation is used to heat glass substrate(s) for bending. As a result, a coating supported by the substrate(s) is not heated as much during the bending process compared to if only convent... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7131295 | Roller assembly for a glass sheet bending apparatus and a glass sheet bending apparatus A roller assembly for a glass sheet bending apparatus has a guide shaft bent to have a predetermined curvature and a plurality of ring rollers fitted rotatably to the guide shaft whereby a glass sheet is bent while the glass sheet is transferred into a predetermined... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7114353 | Devices, systems and methods for use in fabricating doorlites, sidelites, windows, window panes and the like Artistic panes having flat and planar margins with laterally offset central regions and deformations, as well as devices and methods for making the same, are shown and described. Devices and assemblies for manufacturing such artistic panes incorporate support member... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7104654 | Light source unit and projector having the same An object of this invention is to provide a light source unit capable of effectively utilizing converged light from a high-pressure discharge lamp by positioning light axes of an ellipsoidal mirror and a lens to coincide. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096691 | Apparatus and method for bending glass sheets An apparatus for bending a glass sheet includes a final hearth bed. This final hearth bed has a top surface that is upwardly convexly curved along a plane perpendicular to an axis of the glass sheet. The top surface has an upstream end, a downstream end that is at a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086252 | System and method for continuous forming of glass sheets A glass sheet forming system (20) includes a roll bending station (28) having a lower roll conveyor (30) and an upper roll former (32) between which a heated glass sheet is progressively formed with a curved shape by lower and upper rolls... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079918 | System for adjusting position of glass plates A system for adjusting position of glass plates includes (1) a chain for conveying glass plates into a bending furnace, the chain having (a) alternate links, (b) connecting pins for holding the alternate links together, (c) extension pins extending from some of the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7059155 | Method of bending glass A method of bending glass, in which glass (5) is heated in a bending furnace (1). After the heating, the glass (5) is transferred onto a mold (7). The glass-bending mold (7) is at at least one point arranged to be bent substantiall... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7017370 | Method and device for the homogenous heating of glass and/or glass-ceramic articles using infrared radiation A method for the homogeneous heating of semitransparent and/or transparent glass and/or glass-ceramic articles using infrared radiation so that the glass and/or glass-ceramic articles undergo heat treatment at between 20 and 3000° C., notably at between 20 and 1705... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7000430 | Method of forming glass-ceramic parts and/or glass parts The invention relates to a method of producing glass-ceramic parts and/or glass parts by deformation of a glass-ceramic blank and/or glass blank. The invention is characterized in that forming is carried out using infrared radiation. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6962759 | Method of making coated articles having an oxygen barrier coating and coated articles made thereby An article includes a substrate, a functional coating deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, and a protective (barrier) coating deposited over at least a portion of the functional coating. The barrier coating is stable to oxygen-containing gases and lim... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6951119 | Method for producing micromechanical and micro-optic components consisting of glass-type materials What is proposed here is a method of structuring surfaces of glass-type materials and variants of this method, comprising the following steps of operation: providing a semiconductor substrate, structuring, with the formation of recesses, of at least one surface of t... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6932473 | Invisible multifocal lens Invisible bifocal sunglasses. The sunglasses include a hard mirror coating to disguise the different focal powers of the sunglasses. The bifocal sunglasses also include a bifocal region that is molded within the main lens blank of the sunglasses. ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6918268 | Plate-shaped member positioning apparatus and glass sheet bending apparatus There is provided a plate-shaped member positioning apparatus comprising a conveyor for conveying a plate-shaped member, a positioner for contact with a front end of a conveyed plate-shaped member, a moving unit for moving the positioner along a conveyance direction... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916542 | Coated articles having a protective coating and cathode targets for making the coated articles An article includes a substrate, a functional coating deposited over the substrate, and a protective coating deposited over the functional coating. The functional coating and the protective coating define a coating stack. The protective coating provides the coating ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6902616 | Method and apparatus for producing semiconductor device A liquid crystal display device is manufactured by first forming a crystalline semiconductor film 2103, of silicon for example, over an insulating substrate 2101, such as glass. The substrate is warped in the process. The warpage is corrected by suctio... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6813904 | Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display faceplate with integral spacer support structures A process for fabricating a faceplate for a flat-panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the faceplate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process. ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6786065 | Method and apparatus for bending glass A method of bending glass, in which glass (5) is heated in a bending furnace (1). Before the bending, the glass (5) is transferred from the heating point or zone onto a mould (7) located thereafter. While the glass (5) is being tra... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6776006 | Method to avoid striae in EUV lithography mirrors A method for manufacturing an EUV lithography element mirror includes sagging a plate of a glass material to produce an EUV mirror blank; and polishing a top face of the EUV mirror blank to produce a polished EUV mirror. A method for manufacturing an EUV lithography... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6751988 | Process for bend-shaping a glass plate and an apparatus for bend-shaping the glass plate A method for manufacturing a curved sheet of glass which includes a heating furnace for heating a sheet of glass therein, the heating furnace having an outlet opening for discharging a curved sheet of glass, and an array of beds housed in the furnace for transferrin... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6705116 | Method and an apparatus for bending a glass sheet In a method for bending a glass sheet, comprising using a first mold for supporting a peripheral portion of a glass sheet and a second mold provided inside the first mold; heating the glass sheet put on the first mold to a temperature to bend the glass sheet by grav... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6668586 | Method for producing glass tiles, glass borders, ornamental panels made from glass or the like A method of producing glass tiles, glass borders, ornamental panels made from glass or the like, the rear side of which is structured to form a relief, involves the following steps: trimming the glass slab to the desired size, applying an adhesive laye... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6631627 | Differential pressure process for fabricating a flat-panel display face plate with integral spacer support structures and a face plate produced by such process A process for fabricating a face plate for a flat-panel display such as a field emission cathode type display is disclosed, the face plate having integral spacer support structures. Also disclosed is a product made by the aforesaid process.... | 10/14/2003 |
