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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4757755 | Mobile cooking apparatus A mobile cooking apparatus including a trailer vehicle having an elongated chassis with front and rear end walls, open sides, and a platform supporting one or more elongated cooking units and at least one cover member having foldable cover segments adapte... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4748902 | Automatic food cooker and dispenser A hot foot dispenser including structure for storing foodstuffs at below-freezing temperatures, transferring a portion of the foodstuffs from the storage structure to a cooking tank, and delivering the cooked foodstuff portions from the cooking tank after... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4722267 | French fry vending machine The french fry food vending machine has a plurality of frozen foodstuff holding compartments in a refrigeration chamber. A metered dispensing rotatable wheel is positioned below the outlet of each holding compartment to, upon activation, dispense a metere... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4715272 | System for preparing tortillas A system for preparing tortillas includes a tortilla cooking oven and a cooked tortilla cooling device associated with the oven. The cooking oven has an entrance at which uncooked tortillas are received and an exit from which cooked tortillas are discharg... | 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 |
| 4677278 | Food vending machine A food vending machine comprising a store cabinet for a plurality of cooled or non-cooled dishes and a cuboid oven (40). One wall (42) of the oven (40) is provided with an inlet door (46) and another wall (43) is provided with an outlet door (47) for intr... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4671425 | Food vending machine A food vending machine having a selection station, a magazine for a plurality of refrigerated or unrefrigerated portioned food items, a heating apparatus, a serving station and a conveying apparatus between the magazine and reheating apparatus. The magazi... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4660467 | Food processing apparatus A rotatable platform rotatably mounted in a refrigerated compartment is adapted to support a plurality of chunks of meat thereon. An arm in the refrigerated compartment is in operative proximity with the platform and mounted to sweep chunks of meat off th... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4646627 | Apparatus for preparing fried potato products Apparatus and method for preparing hot food products in portions of predetermined size by rehydrating a dehydrated food product to provide a dough that can be shaped and heated. The apparatus includes means for storing bags of dehydrated product and for o... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4592485 | Meal vending apparatus Dispenser apparatus for a complete meal includes a refrigerated cabinet in which is disposed a plurality of prepared meal packages which include hot portions and cold portions, the cold portions being protected by foil wrap or other microwave impregnable ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4590848 | Cooker A cooker for cooking food such as bar-b-que or the like. The cooker has a cooking tower with a rotating carrousel therein and various means for holding the food as it is being cooked. There is a heat source offset from beneath the cooking tower and positi... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4505193 | Industrial deep-fryer The invention relates to an industrial deep-fryer adapted for cooking successive proportioned amounts of frozen foods. It comprises unique means for filling and draining off the deep-fry pan, a hermetically closed deep-fry pan, proportioning means and a c... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4502372 | Deep-fryer pan for industrial fryers A deep-fry pan for industrial deep-fryers. The pan is hermetically closed during operation to minimize contact between oil contained in the pan and ambient air and to minimize pollution of the room in which the fryer is located.... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4438683 | Apparatus for dispensing individual orders of a hot food product and components usable therewith An apparatus and method for dispensing individual orders of a hot food product. The apparatus is designed to use a food product provided in a dehydrated form, such food product being readily reconstituted by the addition of a liquid. The apparatus include... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438684 | Kinetic fireplace and spit roaster A kinetic fireplace having a hearth formed by a horizontal grate surrounded by vertical bars and supported by downwardly extending carrying legs which rest on a horizontal carrying plate having a depending axle. The lower end of the axle is coupled to a p... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4398651 | Microwave food dispensing machine An automated food dispensing system is disclosed which uses microwave energy to rapidly heat precooked food items, including complete meals, from low storage temperatures to elevated serving temperatures. Mechanical means are provided to almost instantane... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4372198 | Lantern hot plate A hot plate that is readily placeable upon a lantern in order to use the lantern heat for cooking foods upon the hot plate, the hot plate including a grill, and which in one design of the invention, additionally includes a wrap around side wall placeable ... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4364310 | Mobile barbecue apparatus A mobile barbecue apparatus is disclosed which comprises a firebox having wheels thereon with turnable receptacles for holding items to be cooked mounted above the firebox. The food containing receptacles are adjustable in width to accommodate different s... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4359935 | Apparatus for cooking and dispensing food This invention concerns food cooking and dispensing apparatus which includes a container for the foods to be cooked and dispensed, a cooking unit and a food holder. The food holder is movable between a first position in or exposed to the cooking unit. The... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4331068 | Control circuit for automatic cooking apparatus A control circuit for an automatic cooking apparatus for cooking processed food contained in a cup, wherein desired ones of a plurality of hot water sources can be operated during a predetermined time by operating one of a group of cook selector controls.... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4250959 | Cooling and cooking apparatus An upwardly open chest has a hinged lid, and oppositely movable roller blinds to close an upper compartment in which food can be cooked, or stored at normal refrigerator temperatures. A steam rod support structure slides parallel the lid's hinge line for ... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4196660 | Combination vegetable cutter and cooker A circular vegetable cutting tray is supported in the upper portion of a cooking pot and includes a circumferential wall having apertures therethrough. Each aperture has a cutting edge past which vegetables can be moved by radiating arms of a rotor receiv... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4187325 | Steam cooking with direct contact CO2 cooling Material is cooled by direct contact with CO2, and the CO2 vapor is recovered. A coolant reservoir is created in a holding tank wherein CO2 vapor, CO2 liquid and solid CO2 exist in equilibrium in the ... | 02/05/1980 |
| 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 |
| 4171066 | Automatic vending machine capable of heating vended goods An automatic vending machine which selectively delivers a cold stored canned food such as canned coffee, juice, soup and so on as it is or canned food after being heated by an induction heating coil.... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4165620 | Self-service cooling cabinet A self-service low temperature cooling cabinet for easily spoilable food and/or edible products, especially ice cream, with an easily accessible front withdrawing opening and two cooling units or groups of cooling units comprising a ventilator and an evap... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4125205 | Apparatuses for distributing hot cooked dishes and installations equipped therewith An apparatus for dispensing cooked dishes is disclosed which includes a refrigerated isothermal cabinet in which cooked dishes are kept. The cabinet has an outlet opening for the dishes and an automatic door selectively opening and closing the opening in ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4119020 | Apparatus for making hot dogs and the like A device for providing a cavity in a bun for receiving a filling such as a sausage comprises a heating probe adapted to be inserted into a bun to compress the material of the bun to form the cavity and to toast the surface of the cavity so that the cavity... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4108055 | Mobile broiler rotisserie apparatus A mobile broiler rotisserie apparatus including a trailer frame having road engaging wheels thereon and a hitch for connection to a vehicle. The trailer frame has an open top chamber having sidewalls and a bottom wall mounted thereon with a pair of spaced... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4086849 | Mobile broiler apparatus A mobile broiler apparatus including a trailer frame having road engaging wheels thereon and a hitch for connection to a vehicle. The trailer frame has an open top chamber having sidewalls and a bottom wall mounted thereon with support brackets being secu... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4029003 | Device for the extemporary preparation of beverages A device for the extemporary preparation of beverages with a liquid in doses which passes through a capsule containing a charge to be solved or diluted in said liquid, after a hollow extension has been removed and a thin, covering plate of said capsule ha... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4008657 | Apparatus for adjusting temperature of semifluid food and successively supplying the same A method of adjusting temperature of semifluid food and successively suppng the same is disclosed. Semifluid food is contained in a number of retort-treated packs arranged along a lengthwise direction of an elongate belt and spaced apart from each other ... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3986891 | Self cleaning dishwasher and oven combination An oven apparatus or dishwasher apparatus having a combination chamber wherein a heated liquid is impelled and recirculated in a chamber comprising of an oven chamber or a dishwasher chamber to carry out food cooking or surface cleaning operations within ... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3984030 | Single article dispensing machine from a continuous band-shaped package of the same articles Single product units are dispensed by a machine previously loaded with a band-shaped package thereof in a feeding station being a container. The first product unit of the band-package is positioned at a stop device, adjustable for a different size of the ... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3961567 | Machine for automatically making pancakes A machine for automatically making pancakes, includes a heated cooking drum which is rotatable about a horizontal shaft by drive means and which has, on its periphery, at least one raised surface area having a contour corresponding to the shape of the pan... | 06/08/1976 |
| 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 |
