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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7987775 | Continuous food cooker The present invention relates to a portable household food cooker capable of receiving a food mixture and producing food items in a continuous fashion. The continuous food cooker generally includes a housing and a hopper. The hopper is disposed above the housing for... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7958817 | Food heating device One embodiment of a food heating device includes a platen (101) and an opening (103) disposed in the platen (101). The opening (103) is arranged and sized to receive a food product (203) from a first side of the platen (101)... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7444928 | Apparatus for producing crackers An apparatus for producing crackers is provided. The apparatus includes: a main frame; a drive unit installed at the main frame, and having a drive motor provided with a reducer, and first and second drive shafts receiving power from the drive motor; first and secon... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7325483 | Automated belt cooking machine pancakes or the like An automated belt cooking machine (10) for pancakes and the like food products has upper and lower overlapping, thermally conductive belts (12, 14), counter-rotatably mounted to a frame (16) so that, in use, a bottom run (30) of the upper... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7278350 | Belts with integral flights for use in high-temperature food processing equipment and systems including such belts A flexible composite with integral flights is provided and methods for making the same. The composite is made from, for example, silicone rubber, urethane rubber, polytetrafluoroethylene or other polymer. The composites are useful for making conveyor belts for use i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7182683 | Casingless food production methods, systems, and associated traveling matable mold shells Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) providing a series of shells, the shells having sufficient structural rigidity to define an enclosed cavity space of predetermined substantially constant size and shape;... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7024987 | Baking assembly for battered food items A baking assembly bakes a food item prepared to be baked on a stick with a batter. The baking assembly includes a first heating element including a reservoir for receiving the batter and the food item therein. The reservoir defines a longitudinal axis. A second heat... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6620449 | Process and device for preparing eggs in various forms A process and device for producing eggs in various forms, such as among others boiled, poached or deep fried eggs, or their separate component parts, i.e. the yolk or egg white thereof or whole egg, called hereinafter the eggs. The eggs are moved in mould... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6508166 | Donut maker A donut making arrangement includes a drip tray for placement over a source of cooking heat, and a donut maker with base and cover. The base has a head defining a recess for receiving batter and cover has a lid for engaging over the recess. The head and l... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6467398 | Method and apparatus for making bowl-shaped snack food products A method and apparatus for making bowl-shaped snack food products, e.g. tortilla chips. The method features placing chip preforms in open bowl-shaped cavities and partially frying the chip preforms by filling them with hot oil from above. Additionally, th... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6258395 | Method for pressure baking A method of producing a comestible and associated apparatus are disclosed. A baking mixture is prepared having a moisture content. A mold arrangement is then provided having a mold cavity which is sealable from ambient pressure. The baking mixture is plac... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6244164 | Process and corresponding machines for the preparation of ready-cooked and semi-cooked dishes A process for the preparation of ready-cooked and semi-cooked dishes in a cooking container into which are incorporated all the ingredients, preferably automatically, including mixing of the ingredients just as for an artisanal preparation. A machine for ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6214399 | Apparatus and method for molding food A simple apparatus for molding and baking food in particulate or fluid form into edible unified products comprises a heated mold bottom with a cavity or recess, a base member at the bottom of the recess which can be pushed up by a rod that slides through ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6205914 | Tortilla forming machine A tortilla forming machine for molding dough into a tortilla shell having a top, a bottom, a peripheral edge, and a thickness. The forming machine includes a first member having a first forming surface, a second member having a second forming surface move... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6196117 | Continuous production two stack baking apparatus An apparatus for baking thin-walled shaped bodies has a baking shaft defining adjacent up and down paths and a respective stack of pairs of cavity-forming baking plates in the shaft at each of the paths. A heater in the shaft heats the stacks between uppe... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6178878 | Baking oven for producing thin-walled shaped products with baking forms each consisting of two form halves which open and close A baking oven has a multiplicity of baking sheet units stacked one above the other and added to below, after bakable mass has been deposited on a lower most member of the stack, so that the individual molds formed by each upper and lower sheet are closed ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6167796 | Baker for waffles, pancakes and similar food items A waffle baker is disclosed which is of tubular frame construction having a pair of shell members which have a food receiving part, a handle, and a hinge. The shell members include a heater coil for connecting to a power source and a thermocouple to monit... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6156364 | Molded pizza crust The present invention provides a method of forming proofed dough for baked goods in a predetermined shape, as well as an apparatus for practicing the method. The apparatus includes a closed dough handling system that includes a pressurized dough mixer, a ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6148718 | Apparatus for bonding food particles Apparatus for forming and baking food particles into a unified, shaped product, e.g., shaped like pizza, has heated top and bottom plates, the mating faces of which have recesses and protrusions for molding the desired shaped product. The bottom plate is ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6129009 | Method and devices for production of edible, thin moulded structures which are at least partially or completely decomposable A baking apparatus for the production of foamed carbohydrate-based baked products which expand during the baking process has a baking tongs with a pair of tong parts hinged together and a baking mold whose mold halves are each received in a respective one... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6092459 | Pancake cooking apparatus and method A pancake cooking apparatus has an elongate and preferably open-ended griddle and a batter scraper by which a mass of batter is spread from one end of the griddle to the other. Thickness uniformity is realized by structures for keeping the scraper's edge ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6004602 | Method for bonding food particles A method for forming and baking food particles into a unified, shaped product, e.g., shaped like pizza, has heated top and bottom plates, the mating faces of which have recesses and protrusions for molding the desired shaped product. The bottom plate is i... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6001412 | Method of making vital wheat gluten into layered fibers, apparatus therefor, and novel resulting textured and protein-denatured fiber products A method of and apparatus for transforming the clumped untextured putty-like and high viscoelastic adhesion physical and chemical properties of hydrated vital wheat gluten into a loose layered minimally adhering serated permanently textured fiber strand s... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5996476 | Device for pressing, imprinting and cooking flat bread products An imprinting press and cooking apparatus for a dough product includes an imprinting station with respective opposed lower press and upper imprinting plates and rotating plate or endless belt conveyors adjacent the imprinting station for moving the dough ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5960705 | Apparatus and method for molding food particles A simple apparatus for molding and baking food particles into edible unified products comprises a heated stationary ring, a heated bottom plate, fitted in the ring and movable up and down therein, and a heated top plate that can be alternately brought dow... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5960704 | Contact toaster An improved contact toaster for heating sandwich buns and other food items features a housing containing a toasting chamber with an inlet and an outlet. The toasting chamber contains a pair of conveyor belts with a heated platen positioned between them. E... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5746116 | Rapid toasting apparatus An improved toasting apparatus is disclosed including a variable speed conveyor belt for conveying products through the toaster; a bottom heating element positioned below the conveyor belt, the bottom heating element including variable control for control... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5722315 | System and device for grilling food A grill plate for grilling food, and in particular, frozen meat patties, is coated with a mixture of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and a far-infrared radiation substance. The PTFE, being an abherent, prevents food from sticking to the grill plates, while... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5520097 | Molded food processing system A food processing system (20) includes a plurality of openable and closeable food product molds (32, 34) carried by a continuous serpentine conveyor (24) through a processing chamber (22) from a loading station (28) to an unloading station (30) and then r... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5481963 | Automated pancake maker An electric pancake maker having a liquid batter container that is thermally protected; a metering pump system arranged to dispense separate, equal portions of batter simultaneously onto a first cooking surface assembly including a plurality of concave co... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5473975 | Conveyor toaster oven A conveyor toaster has air chambers at opposite sides and at the top of the oven for reducing surface temperatures of the out side housing panels of the oven which a worker might touch. A wire link conveyor belt extending through the oven and carrying foo... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5463939 | Hinge for pivotally connecting two tongs of a pair of baking tongs In a hinge for pivotally connecting the tongs of a pair of baking tongs, the hinge pin is rotatably mounted by means of at least one sliding surface bearing, which comprises sliding surfaces, which are in sliding contact with each other and are respective... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5458051 | Belt cooking apparatus A belt grill is described herein for continuously cooking fast food products on a conveyor formed of counter-rotating heat conductive belts. The belts are heated by platens disposed above and below whereby a run of the belts passes in heat conductive rela... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5299492 | Multiple vertical baker for waffles and pancakes A multiple baker for confectionery items such as waffles and pancakes having multiple baking irons vertically mounted between vertical heating partitions of a base and pivotally hinged to the base for rotation in a vertical plane, between a baking positio... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5142967 | Apparatus for making waffles A method of making a waffle in a press having closable top and bottom halves comprises first spraying a relatively thin pattern batter in a pattern on one of the halves of the press and then heating the pattern batter sufficiently to at least partially co... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5103717 | Baking tongs for producing edible wafers from wafer dough in a wafer baking oven or an automatic wafer baking machine Baking tongs for producing edible wafers from wafer dough in a wafer baking oven or an automatic wafer baking machine consist of a wafer baking mold comprising baking mold parts in respective tong parts which are moved toward each other and away from each... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5077072 | Method and apparatus for cooking food on a belt A method and apparatus for forming and/or cooking food products upon an imperforate thermally conductive belt has a food dispenser above the belt, a heat plate under the belt, an upper heating structure, novel structure to maintain conductive thermal cont... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5048403 | Oven for roasting pieces of baked ware A baking or roasting oven is provided with a transfer apparatus by which the pieces of edible material which is to be roasted, such as slices of white bread, soft wafers, etc., are fed into the oven and the roasted toasts are removed from the oven. The ov... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5016528 | Baking apparatus A baking apparatus includes cover molds and pan molds having recesses adapted to be engaged to define baking chamber as the cover and pan molds engage, a device for feeding dough into the recesses of the molds and a device for shaping the doughs in the re... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4962695 | Broiler oven An improved method of cooking and an improved broiler/oven that provides different levels of heat to cook meats or the like at a relatively high heat condition and toast buns or the like, at a relatively lower heat condition. Trays are moved from the fron... | 10/16/1990 |
