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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4173926 | Tortilla pie shell holder A holder for forming and cooking a tortilla into a pie shell. The holder includes nestable apertured pans which are initially vertically separated to receive a tortilla to be cooked. The holder is then dipped into hot oil and the pans moved towards each o... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4171197 | Apparatus for continuously rolling up sheets of baked cookies A device for forming rolled sheet articles such as cookies comprises a first endless conveyor including an oblique article support surface portion and an adjacent substantially horizontal article support surface portion. A rolling up roller is disposed ov... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4162333 | Method and apparatus for making filled food product An apparatus and method 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 each dough piece fixed during raising and baking after which sa... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4154153 | Drive mechanism for a mechanized taco shell fryer A taco fryer in which an endless conveyor having a pair of parallel drive chains connected by spaced parallel transverse rods with flexible porous web sections extending between the rods has a portion passing through an elongated vat of cooking oil. Each ... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4142460 | Apparatus for preparing crunchy food topping A method and an apparatus is described for preparing a crunchy food topping of random sized pieces or granules of cooked dough in which the dough is mixed, subdivided to random sized pieces or granules, baked, allowed to cool, sized and packed. The granul... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4138938 | Apparatus for producing three-dimensionally formed crackers A method of forming a soft plate-like baked piece into a three-dimensional cracker and an apparatus therefor. A plate-like cracker is placed immediately after baking onto two spaced, substantially parallel to each other plates and formed into a three-dime... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4126706 | Process for forming dough ribbon There is disclosed a process for forming farinaceous dough ribbon of good quality and at a substantially constant rate. The ribbon is especially employed in processes involving further handling or treating of the dough as a ribbon of substantial length. C... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4121301 | Continuous-feed alimentary paste mixer and improved noodle-making machine A mixer for continuously providing alimentary paste includes a constant rate fluid feeder responsive to a paste sensor, a constant rate flour feeder also responsive to the sensor and a mixing chamber for receiving flour and fluids from the feeders and for... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4116120 | Convertible dough makeup line for the production of different kinds of bread A convertible dough makeup line for the selective production of flat bread, loaf bread, or round bread in several simultaneously moving rows of dough pieces, the line having consecutive first and second dough piece molding lines with an upwardly pivotable... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4111109 | Wheat flour product manufacturing equipment Wheat flour products are automatically manufactured with a compact rolling and shaping apparatus which comprises (a) vertically arranged rolling rollers having respective clearances slightly horizontally deviated or offset and having a slitter and cutter ... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4100848 | High speed bun production system A high speed bun production system wherein a pan conveyor is arranged to convey empty pans in a substantially straight line to a bun moulder-panner unit in a direction toward the intermediate bun proofer and to an end of the bun moulder-panner unit remote... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4098179 | Machine for producing fried dough-enclosed sausages A machine comprising means for continuous extruding a strand of sausages surrounded by a covering of a pre-made dough, cutting the strand into portions of predetermined length, supporting cut off portions and transferring the same for frying, frying the c... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4096791 | Apparatus for making a fried formed chip Apparatus for preparing a chip type snack is disclosed. The apparatus includes a section for preparing and sheeting dough, a section for cutting the dough sheet into a continuous ribbon of wide and narrow portions, a section for frying the ribbon in deep ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4068570 | Apparatus for producing pieces of eggs Process of producing pieces of eggs which comprises mixing eggs to obtain a blend of egg whites and egg yolks, separately establishing a first flow of the blend and a second flow of steam under pressure, contacting the first and second flows to produce a ... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4043259 | Apparatus for continuously rolling up sheets of baked cookies A device for forming rolled sheet articles, such as cookies, which are rolled after heating, comprises an endless conveyor which has a surface on which the article is placed and which is continuously advanced at a predetermined speed. The article is moved... | 08/23/1977 |
| 3994215 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of chips or flakes from food substances Methd and apparatus for the manufacture of chips or flakes from food, stimulant, or feed materials such as fruits, vegetables, potatoes or the like in which a moist mass of material is deposited on a rotating cylinder. The film is formed on the drum and t... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3991667 | Apparatus for the manufacture of cheeses A process for the production of cheese which comprises treating milk by ultrafiltration to obtain a liquid product containing at least some of the protein constituents of the milk, subjecting this liquid to a heat treatment to bring it to the coagulation ... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3985070 | Continuous in-feed high speed pre-cooking machine system for the production of cooked dough foodstuffs A continuous machine system for producing a cooked dough-type product by utilizing pre-cooking of the dough while being mixed prior to shaping enabling a reduction of oven dwell time to a minimum while obtaining the commercially desired characteristics in... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3985071 | Basket for use in deep fat cooking of comestibles A clamshell type of basket for use in deep fat cooking of comestibles and provided with features especially adapted to commercial fast-service cooking, is disclosed.... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3980009 | Apparatus for preparing an elongated edible product An apparatus for preparing elongated products having a cylindrical shell enclosing a core material. The apparatus comprises a plurality of cylindrical moulds each associated with a core member which is laterally supported in a frame moving in unison with ... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3978779 | Apparatus for preparing edible products An apparatus for preparing edible products having a cylindrical shell of coagulated egg-white enclosing a central core. The apparatus has a plurality of cylindrical moulds moving cyclically in a closed path including stations in which raw materials are su... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3972672 | Machine for flattening dough buns and the like A band passes around two spaced parallel pulleys but behind a drum between the pulleys to flatten dough buns which are placed on the central drum. The central drum is raised or bulging at the center, while thin transverse cross bars are mounted on the dru... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3971306 | System for manufacturing animal feed The manufacture of animal feed using as a principal ingredient food waste, wherein the food waste is first ground to a fine particle size, cooked and dried, and then blended with certain additives to provide a complete animal feed.... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3958035 | Method of manufacturing omelet type egg product A method is provided for making an omelet type egg product suitable for storage by freezing. Egg whites and egg yolks are agitated sufficiently to break the yolks and provide an egg mix. The moisture of the egg mix is adjusted and a predetermined amount o... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3956517 | Method of forming rippled chip-type products A process for producing uniformly shaped chip-type products having a surface design thereon. The process provides chip-type products having a series of substantially parallel alternate arcuate ridges and grooves extending across both surfaces which effect... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3949658 | Potato chip maker A toy potato chip maker for producing dry cooked potato chips which includes a cooking chamber with openings in opposite walls of the cooking chamber to provide a substantially horizontally alined passageway through the chamber. A continuous screen-type c... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3948160 | Multifood product frying machine Tortillas are placed on a flexible, pliable, perforated web made of woven metal. A plunger folds over the tortilla, folding the tortilla and the metal web, and the combination wherein the tortilla is fried crisp in the folded position, thus forming it int... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3946655 | Taco shell cooking apparatus Taco shell forming and cooking apparatus comprising a cooking bath, a mesh conveyor belt for carrying a tortilla through the cooking bath, a plurality of wedge-shaped forming members disposed above the bath and guide means for causing the forming members ... | 03/30/1976 |
| 3937137 | Pancake making machine A pancake-making machine (for baking French-type pancakes or "crepes") has a drum rotatable by a drive motor via heat-resistant synthetic-resin gears on its ends. A transfer roller carried on a batter trough is displaceable toward and away from the drum b... | 02/10/1976 |
| 3937848 | Chip fracturing from a fried ribbon Method and apparatus for preparing a chip-type snack is disclosed. A dough is prepared and sheeted. An elongated shaped ribbon is cut from the dough sheet. The ribbon is passed through a deep fat fryer and then separated into individual chips by fracturin... | 02/10/1976 |
| 3935808 | Apparatus for milling grain while simultaneously cooking the grain A method and apparatus for milling grain while simultaneously cooking the grain in which the grain is introduced between coaxial relatively rotatable grinding members and advances therebetween while being milled. The milling of the grain develops heat in ... | 02/03/1976 |
