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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4821631 | Cooking food device A food cooking device for cooking Oriental dishes is disclosed comprising a base and a cooking pan support means pivoted to the base. An acceleration and deceleration means is provided for rapidly accelerating upwardly from a starting position to at least... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4817510 | Cooking apparatus for fluid container A cooking apparatus includes a recessed area adapted to receive an associated fluid container for cooking soup and similar food products. Means for heating the recessed area as well as insulating means therearound minimizes heat loss and effectively heats... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4741261 | Cooking apparatus A machine for the rapid and simultaneous cooking of separate quantities of pasta consists of a cabinet containing a number of cooking pots. Each load of pasta is suspended in a pot by means of a perforated basket. The apparatus includes supplies of hot wa... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4732080 | Apparatus for preparing hot food A pre-cooking operation pre-cooks a pasta product for a time substantially less than required to bring it to serving consistency. Pre-cooking is quenched with cold water and a measured weight of the drained product is sealed in a single-serving container ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4715357 | Apparatus for cooking food An apparatus for cooking food includes two plates, a heating device for heating the plates, a drive for driving one of the plates relative to the other so as to apply heat and pressure to an initial food material, and the drive is formed so that the one p... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4700617 | Automatic frying machine The specification relates to an automatic frying machine, including a feeder device to place materials automatically into a pan, a frying and stirring device and a mechanism to turn the pan through 180° for the purpose of serving the prepared food. The m... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4686896 | Pressure smoker A pressure smoker having a stainless steel cooking vessel including a smoke generating cavity, the cooking vessel being heated by electric heating elements positioned to heat the walls of the vessel while creating a cool area at the bottom of the vessel, ... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4682012 | Apparatus for controlling and adjusting heat output during the heating phase of a cooking vessel An apparatus for controlling and adjusting heat output during the heating phase of a cooking vessel. The cooking vessel is heated by an electric heating element and the temperature inside the cooking vessel is measured. The heating element is provided wit... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4651634 | Custom cone machine A custom cone machine for the use on or off the place of dispersement for use of edible containers to serve varying types of food, such as dairy products, salads, etc. fresh and of varying ingredients commensurate with the type of food served. The machine... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4636949 | Method and apparatus for controlling cooking cycles in a cooking system Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of a commercial deep-fryer cooker as used in preparing fried chicken or other food products. The controller (11), according to the invention, has been designed to control essentially all aspects of the co... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4633772 | Griddle mounted hot dog turner with lift off detachable drive unit An apparatus for automatically turning hot dogs upon a conventional griddle which has an easily attachable and detachable motor drive unit and continuously turns the hot dogs and cooks them properly on the griddle. The turner has a grid which slidably res... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4586428 | Cooking apparatus for two-sided cooking A clamshell type grill having an upper cooking platen mounted on a platen support arm for swinging movement between a lower cook position overlying a lower cooking platen and a raised position inclined upwardly from the lower cooking platen. The upper pla... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4587406 | Apparatus for controlling the cooking process in a cooking vessel An apparatus for monitoring the cooking process in a cooking vessel placed on an electric heating element, particularly a stovetop burner, comprising signal transmitter controlled by the temperature in the cooking vessel, a signal receiver in communicatio... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4576089 | Automatic roux maker An automatic roux maker including a pot for heating and agitating (mixing and moving) the roux during the cooking process, in which a motor-driven agitator is included and suspended within the pot for mixing the roux during cooking and for preventing scor... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4531048 | Confectionery grill having adjustable heating elements A confectionery grill having upper and lower hinged heating elements in which the upper heating element or grill unit can be adjustably spaced at its hinge from the lower heating element or grill unit during the cooking cycle.... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4518849 | Electronic toaster timer with preceding off-time temperature control compensation The duration of the timing cycle of a selector adjusted timer controlling intermittant operation of a heating element in an electrical appliance, is reduced as an inverse function of the duration of a preceding off-time interval. A manually operable switc... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4510376 | Variable timing system for toasters and similar appliances This drop-down toaster has a bread support and a door at the bottom of each toasting compartment. The door has a series of vent holes for air convection which produces improved uniformity in the toast. The door and bread support are held closed by rollers... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4467184 | Thermal range control A control for a thermal oven having a manually settable timer for establishing preselected broiling and baking times. The control includes an alarm and circuitry for sounding the alarm at the end of the timed cooking period. The control further de-energiz... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4459902 | Deep fat cooking apparatus Apparatus for the cooking of foods, includes a chamber for holding a volume of cooking oil and defining a cooking region therein for receiving food to be cooked. The chamber includes a wall having an opening therethrough for placement of food into the coo... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4450758 | Rotary cooking device An improvement in an automatic cooking apparatus having a rotating wide-mouthed vessel closed with a lid and driven from the end opposite the open end of the vessel. Heating means are provided along a portion of the vessel circumference and are controlled... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4421015 | Radiant heat cooking apparatus Food articles are heated by radiation in the near infrared wavelength range of 0.72 μm to 2.5 μm. Food articles can be thawed, heated or fully cooked direct from the frozen condition in this way. Hamburger patties are cooked in a conveyor cooker between... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4413173 | Electric toaster control An electric oven toaster construction wherein an interrupt mechanism is provided for interrupting operation of a toast timer controller when the oven toaster door is opened. An interrupt lever is positioned between a door operated rod and a heat-up/cool-d... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4404899 | Toasters The means shown and described in the specifications to activate the covers can be modified and/or varied using different means. A year of evaluating and testing a working model of a toaster using the disclosed design proved it to be economically alnd prac... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4401884 | Method of controlling heating in food heating apparatus including infrared detecting system A method of controlling the application of heat in a food heating apparatus comprising a first heating-control mode such that the heat is applied to an object to be heated until an infrared detecting device detects that a surface temperature of the object... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4345513 | Electric toaster A toaster for toasting a slice of bread comprises a casing in which a reciprocable carriage is located and is movable towards and away from an aperture defined by the casing through which aperture a slice of bread when mounted on the carriage can pass. A ... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4328741 | Apparatus for producing crackers An apparatus for carrying out a method of producing a cracker from a raw material such as rice or the like comprises steps of compressing and heating for a predetermined time the raw material contained within a hermetically closed chamber defind in upper ... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4300443 | Broiling apparatus A drum of meat, consisting of an assembly of layers of meat chunks is rotated on a vertical spit, cooked by radiant heat supplied by a plurality of heating elements, and sliced by an automatically advancing paring apparatus. Certain of the heating element... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4297941 | Multiple saucer sandwich cooking device A sandwich oven comprising, a base plate having a first plurality of sandwich sized mold indentations therein, a top plate pivotally mounted to said base plate having a second plurality of sandwich sized mold indentations therein, corresponding to said fi... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4286509 | Toasting apparatus An economical energy saving toasting apparatus includes a housing with an interior baffle defining a toasting chamber therein and an inlet for the introduction of the product to be toasted into the chamber. The housing also includes an outlet through whic... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4241288 | Electric rice cooker with two heaters A rice cooker having a kettle for containing rice, an inner case surrounding and supporting the kettle, first and second heaters separated from each other and mounted within the inner case and adjacent the outside surface of the kettle for heating the ket... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4234783 | Electric rice cookers In an electric rice cooker, an electric heater for heating a kettle containing a quantity of rice and water is firstly energized through a first contact of a switch sensitive to the temperature of the kettle. When cooking operation completes the switch tr... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4167900 | Sandwich grill A sandwich grill includes a base support housing having a vertical support member supporting a fixed die and a movable die disposed for cooperative opposed relationship for confining a sandwich therebetween. The dies include shearing elements for shearing... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4156454 | Oven with refrigerated food storage based on thermal exchange fluid An oven, which maintains food at a low temperature to preserve its properties for subsequent unattended cooking at high oven temperatures, is cooled and heated by a flowing liquid thermal exchange fluid which is cooled and heated by flowing through therma... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4140048 | Toast load selector mechanism A toast load selector mechanism for use with toasters accommodating varying toast loads of from one to a plurality of bread slices or other food items for toasting and having a toasting time interval timer including a manually operable brownness control k... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4113439 | Cooking apparatus employing a purging device A cooking apparatus employing a purging device. In the apparatus, an exhaust gas which is produced from food being cooked in a cooking chamber is passed through the purging device and is exhausted to the exterior of the chamber at a temperature of 130° C or a... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4064796 | Cooking apparatus Apparatus for cooking various food items. The apparatus includes an enclosed cooking compartment disposed a spaced distance above a reservoir which contains a quantity of cooking oil. A rack is provided for suspending the items of food at spaced apart dis... | 12/27/1977 |
| 3978238 | Methods of warming food between moveable spring biased heater means A food warming appliance having base and cover structures defining a portable case. A pair of opposed heating panels are mounted, one in each of the structures, and biased toward each other so as to firmly engage food positioned therebetween when the stru... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3944790 | Electronic digital timer for an electronic range An electronic digital timer for an electronic range wherein the desired time of cooking is determined by a time setter; the time of cooking thus set is indicated in a digital fashion; a counter counts the number of pulses generated when the electronic ran... | 03/16/1976 |
