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A pizza mold for forming a plurality of concentric raised ridges of dough (i.e., crust) on the surface of a pizza pie.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7163287 | Combined cutter and slitter module for a printer A combined cutter and slitter module for a wallpaper printer, the combined cutter and slitter module comprising: at least two end plates, a media web able to pass between the at least two end plates; at least two slitter rollers rotatably held between the at least t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162941 | Universal slicer with positioning plate A universal slicer contains a housing, a rotatably mounted revolving blade, a positioning plate which is provided with a bearing surface for a product that is to be sliced, and a mechanism regulating the width of cut by adjusting the positioning plate in relation to... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7007595 | Device and method for computerized product slicing A device and method for computerized product slicing are disclosed. The device includes a blade, an openable product holder capable of engaging/retaining therein the product and of communication with a product sensor, the product sensor which detects presence of pro... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6979153 | Deep-grooving insert having stepped cutting edge A deep-grooving chip-forming cutting insert includes a rear mounting portion, a front cutting portion, and a pair of side walls, each side wall extending along the front and rear portions. The front cutting portion includes a front end surface, a top surface, and a ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6901832 | Method and apparatus to remove pieces cut from a bar-shaped workpiece with a cutting machine A method to remove pieces (14) cut off from bar-shaped workpiece material (5) by a cutting machine (1) is provided as well as an apparatus to carry out this process, wherein the piece (14) of the material (5) to be cut lies on a ma... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6872044 | Apparatus for and method of manufacturing sheets Sheets held by a sheet transfer mechanism are supplied from a supply unit to an aligning unit, and aligned with each other by the aligning unit. Thereafter, corners of the sheets are cut off by first and second cutting units, and then the sheets are vertically inver... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6745655 | System for stacking blanks produced particularly in a progressive die process System for stacking blanks produced, particularly in a progressive die process, has one or more stacking mandrels which can be lifted and/or lowered in a stacking channel. The stacking mandrel/mandrels has/have a stacking mandrel top part and a stacking mandrel bott... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6640681 | Method and device for slicing food products The invention relates to a method and to a device that allows portions of similar slices to be obtained even if the product that is sliced is changed. To this end, the slice surface is monitored. Incomplete portions are transferred to a park position subj... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6601490 | Process for forming and for the further processing of small stacks of sheet material A process for forming small stacks from an initial stack of sheet material by cutting includes providing a single guillotine cutter machine which comprises a rear table part for receiving the material to be cut and a front table part for receiving the cut... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6324951 | System for punching and bundling metal sheets A system for punching and bundling metal sheets, particularly for electric machines, has a die for punching the metal sheets. A die plate cooperates with the die, and a shaft receives and stacks the punched metal sheets. A device separates the punched met... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6318225 | Tortilla cutter An automatic tortilla cutter (10) able to cut stacked tortillas utilizing an openable housing (12) having a left housing (12L) and a right housing (12R) pivotally mounted on a housing bracket (12F) therebetween. The cutter (14) is positioned over the hous... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6286292 | Method for feeding blanks of packing material on a packing machine A method and device for feeding blanks on a packing machine, whereby a store, having a horizontal axis, feeds a succession of blanks to a pickup station from which the blanks are withdrawn one by one; and the blanks are fed to an input station of the stor... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6199467 | Bucket assembly for holding and cutting dry spaghetti and method for cutting dry spaghetti An apparatus for cutting dry pasta strands includes a frame and a guide rail mounted to the frame. A bucket is slidably mounted to the guide rail and linearly moves along the guide rail. The bucket has a stepped pasta-receiving channel including a cutting... | 03/13/2001 |
| 5970834 | Depalletizer and hopper feeder Disclosed is a system which includes a method and apparatus for the removal of carton bundles from where they are stacked, such as on pallets, re-positions the carton bundles relative to a carton holding structure such as a hopper, removes the restraining... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5806396 | Automatic fabric pattern matching apparatus An automatic fabric pattern-matching apparatus for, a fabric (MA) which has a pattern continuous at least in the lateral direction and which is unwound and spread from a wound fabric (M) and is fed from one end thereof in the longitudinal direction of the... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5768963 | Method and apparatus for punching a stack In the punching of a stack (7) of sheet-like articles, especially labels made from paper or paperboard, with a punching knife (4), a punching ram (3) which can be moved to the punching knife (4) and a counter-pressure plunger (5) which is guided through t... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5704265 | Conveyor/classifier system for versatile hi-speed food loaf slicing machine A versatile high speed slicing machine moves first and second food loaves along parallel loaf paths into a slicing station where both loaves are sliced by a cyclically driven knife blade. There are independent loaf feed drives so that slices cut from one ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5566600 | Conveyor/classifier system for versatile hi-speed food loaf slicing machine A versatile high speed slicing machine moves first and second food loaves along parallel loaf paths into a slicing station where both loaves are sliced by a cyclically driven knife blade. There are independent loaf feed drives so that slices cut from one ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5499564 | Method and apparatus for forming a spread An apparatus for forming a spread of generally thin, pliable material from a roll thereof onto a table includes a cradle for holding the roll of the material which is selectively operable to rotate the roll of material for feeding a web of material genera... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5279196 | Apparatus for cutting stacked, sheet-like material An apparatus for cutting stacked sheet-like material has a table surface which includes an entry zone for receiving the material to be cut, a working zone above which a cutting blade and press beam are located, as well as an exit zone for receiving the ma... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5234313 | Method for automatically counting and stacking trimmed molded articles An apparatus for automatically stacking molded articles successively trimmed by a trim press from a web of thermoplastic material, the trim press having a stationary die member which includes a die plate and a die shoe, the apparatus comprising: (a) a fra... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5211090 | Method of and apparatus for shaping the corners of stacked sheet material The corners of stacked sheet material, for example overlay material being employed in the formation of book covers, are simultaneously removed by a cutting appliance having plural knives. Stacks of the sheets of overlay material are delivered to the cutti... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5209149 | Apparatus for the cutting of stacked sheet-like material The invention comprises an apparatus for cutting stacked sheet-like material, including: a table having a surface upon which the material may be laid, the table being defined to be within a work zone, a cutting knife and a press bar located above the work... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5122029 | Apparatus and method for automatically counting and stacking trimmed molded articles An apparatus for automatically stacking molded articles successively trimmed by a trim press from a web of thermoplastic material, the trim press having a stationary die member which includes a die plate and a die shoe, the apparatus comprising: (a) a fra... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5107731 | Automatic slicing system for slicing and uniformly stacking a comestible product An automatic slicing system for slicing a comestible product and forming a uniform stack of slices of the sliced product, wherein the sytem is preferably used in small grocery stores and delis. The slicer comprises a rotary slicer blade having an operatio... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5085111 | Apparatus for stacking flat articles An apparatus is provided for stacking flat articles, such as double bags, which have been severed by hot-wire welding from a continuous tubular or semitubular plastic film and have opening-defining edges adjacent to their center lines. The bags are delive... | 02/04/1992 |
| 4955854 | Apparatus for subdividing stacks of sheets of paper and the like Apparatus for subdividing a stack into a number of piles of overlapping sheets has an elevator which can move a stack upwardly in stepwise fashion between a belt conveyor and a horizontally reciprocable carriage for a pusher and a blade-like horizontal se... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4907940 | Cross-cutting saw A cross-cutting saw for sheets, such as chipboard, plywood or equivalent sheets, the cross-cutting saw including a receiving table for cut-off sheet packages, a spacer strip table following after the receiving table, and a lifting table of the stacking st... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4765214 | Apparatus for handling veneer sheets Veneer handling apparatus having a veneer clipper at one end thereof and a veneer sheet stacker at the other end is disclosed. Veneer sheets cut into a format size by the clipper are sorted so as to allow defective sheets to be discharged from the apparat... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4758214 | Twin wicketing bag machine This application discloses a method and apparatus for converting thermoplastic web material, flat or tubular, to produce bags. A conventional bag machine produces web segments provided with a group of centrally located holes and each segment is transferre... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4741233 | Cluster spreading and cutting system A system for spreading and severing material utilizing a roller movable over a lower substrate and carrying with it a loop of material for spreading without tension. One or two plies are spread as a function of roller travel prior to severing from a sourc... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4716800 | Installation for correctly stacking blanks For reducing the refitting time of high-speed presses as a consequence of the adaptation of the distances of stacking spindle and support members to the dimensions of the cutting tool to be interchanged and of the blank, the stacking spindle and the suppo... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4674375 | Mechanism for slitting and merging sheets A mechanism for slitting a sheet into a number of individual smaller sheets and thereafter merging the smaller sheets together and mechanism for adjusting the angle of merge.... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4656817 | Apparatus for loading singulated lead frames into containers A rotating, indexable carousel-like apparatus for retaining lead frame containers for use in combination with a singulation press which severs a reel of lead frames and progressively loads the lead frames into the containers. The carousel-like apparatus c... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4543864 | Stacking conveyor for product slicing machine A stacking conveyor is provided for receiving thin product slices moving along a horizontal path and placing a plurality of slices in stacks of predetermined configuration. One embodiment of the stacking conveyor includes a conveyor belt carried on a fixe... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4474092 | Product storage bank and merge system An apparatus and method are provided for receiving products, such as stacks of sliced luncheon meat, in an intermittent flow pattern, for conveying the products in two generally parallel paths at two different flow rates, and for merging the two generally... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4474093 | Apparatus for accumulating stacks of paper sheets or the like Stacks of superimposed paper sheets are formed from a succession of layers each of which contains a given number of groups of sheets. One or more layers which contain a first number of groups can be followed by one or more layers containing a different se... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4433599 | Apparatus for forming and stacking sections severed from a web of tubular film In an apparatus for stacking sections separated from an intermittently fed web of sheet material, successive sections are held by clamping means and transferred to the upper arm of a first suction belt conveyor having suction holes which are at a spacing ... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4407628 | Apparatus for handling cuttings from a shear A car on tracks behind the knives of a shear machine, has a section for receiving product cuttings when the car occupies one position on the tracks, and means are provided for receiving scrap cuttings when the car is moved to another position, the car bei... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4344341 | Slicing apparatus A method particularly applicable to the slicing of friable meat products with a rotaty cutting blade comprises feeding the product forwardly when it is not in contact with the cutting blade, and arresting the feeding when the slicing is taking place, and ... | 08/17/1982 |
