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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4506598 | Apparatus for the heating of foodstuffs by means of a steam-air mixture Apparatus heats foodstuffs with a steam-air mixture circulated by a blower in the cooking chamber. The chamber has a controllable vapor vent at its top. A temperature regulator is located in the connection of the cooking chamber to the outer air located a... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4487116 | Culinary appliance for preparing sandwiches of the type known as "hamburgers" The culinary appliance for preparing "hamburgers" comprises a heating resistor, a hotplate which is mounted above the resistor and on which the portion of meat to be cooked is placed, a pressure member which is applied against the portion of meat and form... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4471748 | Cooking apparatus An apparatus which would include a four wall closed structure having a rack on its floor portion in order to accommodate the food to be cooked or smoked. There is further provided a removable top which would have a recessed container means for housing coa... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4469019 | Barbecue grill A barbecue grill comprising a fire bowl, legs for supporting the fire bowl, a cooking grill above the fire bowl rotatable about a generally vertical axis, and a rod which is selectively mountable in a generally horizontal position above the cooking grill ... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4444094 | Intermittent automatic grill for hamburger patties A frame supports a cross-bar conveyor for advancement over a hamburger patty feeding plate and between upper and lower heated platens. The upper platen is raised by actuators and falls by gravity against adjustable stops in time with advancement of the co... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4440071 | Conveyor system for skewered foods The invention comprises an endless conveyor system having particular application in an apparatus of the type wherein raw foods are conveyed past a cooking element and subsequently dispensed as a cooked product. The conveyor system comprises endless convey... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4436082 | Assembly for steam heating or cooking food products and its method of operation An assembly for steam heating or cooking given food products, particularly hot dogs and buns, is disclosed herein along with its method of operation. The assembly includes a housing having at least one internal cooking chamber, a chamber inlet door a vert... | 03/13/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4419374 | Method of baking bread A process of baking proofed loaves of bread in an oven in which a substantially uniform hot air heat in the range of 300° to 500° F. is applied to the loaves constantly throughout the baking process and the loaves are subjected to microwave energy throu... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4404898 | Toaster with product warmer A warming system is described for use with toasters of the type which include an endless coveyor for carrying bread, rolls, muffins or the like past heating devices. Product which has been toasted is deposited into a tray or bin and is maintained in a war... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4392419 | Cooking and smoking apparatus A portable and trailerable cooking and smoking apparatus comprising a housing enclosing the cooking and smoking space; a perforated shelf inside the housing in the upper portion thereof for supporting materials to be cooked or smoked; a slideable drawer c... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4382403 | Industrial cooking machines The present invention provides an industrial cooking machine having an endless conveyor passing through both a preheat region and a cooking region with a pair of accesses to the conveyor. These accesses separate the preheat from the cooking region and ena... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4370920 | Rotating barbecue grill A rotating barbecue grill for uniformly and automatically cooking frankfurters, sausages, hamburgers, steaks, and other food items through the use of rotating rods or rollers defining a grilling surface. One of the rods is directly driven by a motor with ... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4366749 | Apparatus for processing food products Method and apparatus is disclosed for processing food products such as potato chips and the like. A frying medium mist is contained in a vat in which the water vapor or steam being released from the product and the frying medium being generated rises upwa... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4366182 | Method and installation for roasting and grilling skin-covered meat product, such as poultry and particularly chicken A skin-covered meat product, such as poultry and especially chickens, is roasted and grilled in a cassette-oven installation with a roasting oven, a spray box and a grilling oven. First the skin of the chicken is perforated by injection needles and simult... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4362093 | Barbeque grill An outdoor barbeque cooking unit suitable for outdoor cooking including simultaneous baking, grilling, roasting using charcoal, wood and the like for fuel comprising a vertical frame having an upper surface, a tray for holding the charcoal slidably mounte... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4355569 | Rotary hot dog cooker There is disclosed an electric hot dog cooker also suitable for cooking individual portions of sausages, shishkabob or the like, including a stand supporting an electric heating coil in the form of a helix extending horizontally; inside the helical heatin... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4350140 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus includes a frame having first and second side walls and having first and second end walls joining the first and second side walls. A first divider wall spans between the first and second side walls and divides the frame into first and ... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4348948 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus comprises a firebox for producing heat and smoke, and a smoke oven forming a cooking chamber therein. A plurality of vertically spaced shelves are disposed within the chamber for carrying food to be cooked. The shelves are rotated abou... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4346651 | Toaster for bread and other food items A toaster has a casing, two or more walls of which define between themselves an upright food-receiving space, and a base defining with the lower edges of these walls a clearance open to the food-receiving space. A separate food carrier is insertable into ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4338911 | Cooking apparatus Directed jets of temperature controlled gaseous fluids are applied to irregularly shaped products, such as food portions, to subject discrete areas of the surface to a very high heat transfer rate and to cause these areas to be passed over surfaces of the... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4332189 | Apparatus for preparation of foodstuffs, particularly sausages and buns An apparatus and method for preparing foodstuffs, and particularly sausages and buns such as hot dogs. A reservoir containing heated water is provided and sausages are immersed in and moved through the heated water by a conveyor while buns are moved throu... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4325295 | Apparatus for preparing french fried potatoes A process for preparing french fried potatoes for freezing and subsequent finish frying to resemble closely french fried potatoes prepared directly from fresh potatoes, in which after completion of the preliminary potato treatment steps of peeling, trimmi... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4305329 | Turntable oven A gas-fired turntable oven for baking food such as pizza pies for fast food operations comprises a lower baking chamber and an upper holding chamber. Fresh pies are placed onto the turntable in the baking chamber and are baked to completion as they travel... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4290349 | Toaster accessory A toaster accessory is provided in the form of a pair of hinged foraminous panels forming a holder adapted to hold one or several slices of bread therebetween. In its preferred use, a sandwich is placed between the two panels and the holder, when closed, ... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4276821 | Butter melter device for toaster A device for melting butter provides a support member which is detachably secured to a pop-up type toaster and in turn detachably supports a butter melting ladle such that heat rising from the toaster can be utilized to melt the butter.... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4275647 | Apparatus for producing a centerfilled food product Apparatus for producing a tubular centerfilled food product having a rigid, friable baked outer shell and a core of edible filling material by a continuous, straight-through process. A semi-liquid batter having a relatively high content of mono-and/or dis... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4244285 | Oven An oven for cooking and heating foodstuffs comprising an elongated, substantially rectangular, heat insulated housing having an entrance end, an exit end, first and second sides, a top and bottom. The housing interior defines a chamber having a first sect... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4244284 | Meat cooking apparatus Cooking apparatus for preparing meats to suit individual tastes of different consumers. The meat is subjected to electric current heating to cook the meat and to radiant broiling to char its surface. The cooking current passing through the meat is regulat... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4241649 | Apparatus for making filled food product The apparatus for making a filled tubular food product in which tubular dough pieces are extruded onto a supporting die member which maintains the internal diameter of the cavity in the dough piece fixed during raising and baking after which the cavity in... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4208959 | Grill device An improved grill device having, in one preferred form, two coal boxes, each coal box being swingable on a horizontal axis between a generally horizontal position and a generally vertical position, the axes being parallel one to another. Novel box support... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4201796 | Method of cooking meat The method of cooking meat comprising the steps of searing just the surface of a cut or patty of meat briefly with a blow torch pencil burner and thereafter storing the meat in a refrigerator or freezer compartment. When the meat is to be served, it is th... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4197791 | Electric steamer An electric steamer for simultaneously steaming a frankfurter and warming an accompanying frankfurter bun is disclosed herein. The steamer includes a base portion having an electric heater and a reservoir adapted to receive a small amount of water for ste... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4191881 | Food oven A rotary type oven for articles of food having a broiling zone with a radiant electrical heater, a baking zone and a toasting zone having a convective electrical heater; the oven is of the helical track type with the zones being one above another.... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4188866 | Patty broiler A patty broiler has a frame on which an openwork patty conveyor is arranged around pulleys to have an upper run and a lower run. Heaters are arranged on the frame above and below the upper run, and multiple reflectors are arranged on the frame above and b... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4189631 | Hamburger bun storage device A hamburger bun storage device has a supporting frame on which a bun-toasting and heating element is disposed. The heating element is preferably a planar member superposed above a parallel planar conveyor mounted on the frame to advance in a predetermined... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4184419 | Toaster accessory An accessory (1) for holding toast, muffins and other food articles includes two sections (2,3) which are hinged along their bottom edges to form a carrier to be inserted into one slot of a pop-up toaster. The carrier is formed of two complimentary sectio... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4179985 | Sandwich cooking and assembling unit A cooking and assembly unit is primarily for use in the quantity production of sandwiches, such as hamburger sandwiches including a patty, a bun crown and a bun heel. The unit includes a storage compartment for a number of individual trays each carrying o... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4159675 | Wiener heating unit A wiener steamer housing has a bun compartment, and has a wiener compartment over a base containing a heating element. A juice catch tray with side walls is suspended in the wiener compartment, and inserted in it is a wiener holding grill. The tray bottom... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4158992 | Combination hibachi-type grill and rotisserie A combination hibachi-type grill and rotisserie comprises at least one fuel tray mounted on a base. Securing means demountably secures a pair of brackets to opposite sides of the tray in vertical arrangement. Mounting means on the brackets rotatably recei... | 06/26/1979 |
