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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7735416 | Apparatus, system, and method for portable camp cooker with attachments A portable cooking apparatus is light, packable, compatible with back-country hiking, and is multi-functional for use over a heat source. An arm of the apparatus may elongate and shorten and may have an attachment system on the arm that allows the attachment of a pl... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7249686 | Food serving tray with draining compartments A hand-portable serving tray having a compartmented food carrier releasably engaged over a collector tray, the food carrier comprising a plurality of upstanding walls dividing a plurality of close-pack compartments. Within each compartment is at least one hole on a ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 6860191 | Waffle baker A waffle baker grill for producing a waffle product, including a first heating plate having a first surface and a first peripheral wall extending from the first surface to a predetermined distance. The first peripheral wall includes a first side and a second side. A... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6849830 | Apparatus and method of rapidly and evenly heating a packaged food product The invention relates to a method for vending food products in food outlets. The method includes the steps of providing a heating cavity having thermal conductive heating surfaces; placing a container including the food product into the heating cavity, the container... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6782804 | Fry pan having an adjustable position angle A fry pan with its position angle adjustable includes a body, a tightening device and a base. The body has an upper plate and a lower plate capable of being tightened by the tightening device. The body has a shaft and is pivotally connected to the base by the shaft.... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6776085 | Cooking device with a tray unit having two tray halves pivoted to each other A cooking device includes a pivot unit disposed below and interconnecting pivotally bottom surfaces of two tray halves of a tray unit to permit pivotal movement of the tray halves between extended and folded positions. The tray halves have inner sides contacting eac... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6747250 | Counter-top electric oven A counter-top electric oven includes a head having an electric heating unit. The heating unit includes a heating lamp and a grill underlying the heating lamp. A motor powers two fans for circulating air around the motor, and through the heating unit. An oven body re... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6595114 | Pancake and egg cooking appliance The electrically-powered cooker has a base that pivotally supports a clam shell-type cooking unit having two independently pivotal cooking halves, each half being provided with its own hot plate. One or more dished recesses are provided in the bottom half... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6412400 | Baking assembly for preparing a filled waffle A baking assembly for preparing a baked filled waffle is disclosed. The baking assembly comprises an upper plate and a lower plate each of the plates having a baking surface with a plurality of outer pyramids and a plurality of inner pyramids. Each of the... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6397733 | Food roaster A food roasting apparatus has a roasting main body and an upholding device is mounted on the roasting main body at the far end with respect to the oil-collected hole. The upholding device includes an upholding element and a covering body, which can shield... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6363839 | Grill device with a connecting unit for preventing wobbling of an upper grill unit relative to a lower grill unit during movement from a closed position to an open position A grill device includes a horizontal upper grill unit with a rear side, a horizontal lower grill unit with a rear side, and a connecting unit. The upper grill unit is superposed on the lower grill unit. The connecting unit interconnects the rear sides of ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6321639 | Machine for making ice cream cones and other food products such as pannini Prior ice cream cone baking machines were manually raised and lowered, causing the cone to be sometimes overcooked or burnt. The present invention automatically raises the upper cooking plate after a pre-set cooking time, and maintains the baked cake at a... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6276263 | Grill device with an upper grill unit capable of being retained at a half-open position or a horizontal fully-open position A grill device includes a horizontal upper grill unit with a rear side, a horizontal lower grill unit with a rear side, and a connecting unit. The upper grill unit is superposed on the lower grill unit. The connecting unit interconnects the rear sides of ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6269738 | Grill device A grill device includes an annular bottom wall adapted to be placed above a flat support, and outer and inner annular walls which extend uprightly from outer and inner annular peripheries of the bottom wall to form outer and inner upper annular edges and ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6244167 | 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... | 06/12/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6194017 | Dough punch and method of use An apparatus and method easily and quickly produce multiple holes in a dough layer. An apparatus according to the invention includes a top portion, a number of pins supported by the top portion in a fixed pattern, and a base portion having a number of hol... | 02/27/2001 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6044755 | Ice cream cone making machine Prior ice cream cone baking machines were manually raised and lowered, causing the cone to be sometimes overcooked or burnt. The present invention automatically raises the upper cooking plate after a pre-set cooking time, and maintains the baked cake at a... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6026737 | Method and apparatus for molding food particles A simple apparatus for molding and baking food particles into edible unified products comprises a heated stationary ring sandwiched by a heated bottom plate and a heated top plate. Both plates can alternately be brought against, and removed from, the ring... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5955129 | Device and method for producing baked, thin-walled molded articles Disclosed are devices and processes for producing baked thin-walled shaped articles from baking or pouring mixtures which expand during the baking process. The bottom half (18) of a baking mold (16) for producing thin-walled shaped articles is accommodate... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5937742 | Waffle baker with improved baking consistency A waffle baker includes a stationary stand which mounts a clam shell style baker assembly such that the baker assembly can be freely rotated relative to the stand. The baker assembly includes an upper and a lower shell, within each of which is mounted a s... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5848567 | Cooking device having a base unit with a slidably mounted oil accumulating tray for accumulating dripping oil A cooking device includes a base unit, an upper unit hinged to the base unit along a pivot axis, an oil accumulating tray, and slidably retaining device. The base unit defines a horizontal plane, and has a lower cooking plate disposed at an angle relative... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5845562 | Electric grill A grill for cooking food is provided that has an inclined cooking surface with diagonally positioned ribs projecting therefrom. The ribs have a rounded elongated configuration that all point toward a liquid drain. The ribs have liquid flow channels there ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5820907 | Apparatus and a method for manufacturing baked molded products The invention relates to a baking mold for manufacturing moldings, comprising a lower baking section mounted on a lower arm and an upper baking section mounted on an upper arm, wherein the baking sections, in the closed condition of the baking mold and in... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5809871 | Cooking apparatus An apparatus for cooking or heating a material has a base formed from a thermally conductive material. The base has a floor and a wall which define a receptacle adapted to receive the material to be heated. The cooling apparatus further includes a lid, al... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5671658 | Cooking device A new Waffle Sandwich Making System for cooking waffle sandwiches by pouring half of the required batter into the waffle sandwich molds, add fillings on top such as hot dogs, cheese, ham, sausage, and/or bacon along with a stick projecting outwardly from ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5636564 | Waffle maker with thermal controller For making a cooked waffle from batter, a waffle maker comprises a pair of opposing heater grids configured to be closed together when batter is placed therebetween for cooking, and a controllable power supply with an output coupled to the grids for suppl... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5606905 | Device for cooking foodstuffs A cooking device including a lower cooking plate which is positioned at an angle to the horizontal plane of the device has grilling members supported in heat conducting relation and an upper cooking plate movable to a closed position forming a cooking cha... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5596922 | Apparatus for cooking a food product Apparatus for cooking a food product, for example a hamburger, comprises a mould assembly for cooking the hamburger. The mould assembly is formed from first and second moulds (3,3') formed on upper and lower bodies (1,2). Each mould is formed with a pair ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5462757 | Method for manufacturing tartshells A method of manufacturing tart shells uses a manually operated hinged die and press arrangement in which the die is shaped with a female receptacle for receiving a foil tart case and the press has a male portion for compressing dough into the tart case an... | 10/31/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5253565 | Pizza construction and apparatus A pizza base unit of crust has a plurality of waffle-type depressions in its upper surface that receive pizza toppings and serve to anchor such toppings on the upper surface of the pizza. In the method of forming the pizza, raw pizza dough is formed into ... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5154115 | Pizza crust cooking utensil A pizza crust cooking utensil for use with a pizza crust batter to partially precook a pizza crust. The use of the utensil provides a more uniformly producible, less porous and more stable pizza crust which has better handling characteristics for home or ... | 10/13/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5131320 | Image-forming griddle A cooking utensil with a generally platelike structure and a recessed or raised image respectively defined in or above the griddle surface for providing an image at the surface of a fried foodstuff.... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5129313 | Cooking appliance with hinged plates An electric appliance for cooking and especially toasting food products such as ham-and-cheese sandwiches has two cooking plates (1, 2) which are hinged together. Each cooking plate is formed of die-stamped sheet metal and attached to a sheet-metal suppor... | 07/14/1992 |
