Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 4152975 | Potato chip apparatus Apparatus for preparing cooked potato chips from raw potatoes. The apparatus includes a slicer for cutting thin potato slices from a raw potato, a conveyor for receiving the thin potato slices as they are cut by the slicer and for conveying the thin potat... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4120981 | Method of cooking food Significantly improved cooking of food is achieved in machines which tumble the food in a rotating heated vessel. In one embodiment a food-containing vessel rotates past an electric heater which supplies heat to the vessel. The vessel has a cap provided w... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4114523 | Oscillatory drive means for a rotisserie spit A roasting oven having a broiling element near the top of the oven liner and a rotisserie spit adapted to be supported in an elevated position from a wire frame in a broil pan seated on an oven rack. The spit is provided with a food-supporting wire basket... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4103606 | Cooking device A cooking device for quickly and uniformly cooking food products, especially meat products, and for warming rolls and other bread products. The device includes an elongated housing substantially enclosable on all sides, a wheel frame assembly supporting t... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4103605 | Meatball cooker A device for cooking meatballs has a frame supporting an open-ended drum for rotation on the frame about a substantially horizontal axis. The drum is open at both its inlet end and its outlet end and has for part of its length an outer wall together with ... | 08/01/1978 |
| 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 |
| 4081564 | Method and apparatus for continuously making loaf meat Method and apparatus for making a molded meat product on a continuous basis, including the stuffing of a meat material into molds, where a plurality of molds are arranged together in a magazine and a plurality of magazines are utilized in the continuous p... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4073226 | Processing apparatus Circular sealing partitions are moved through a cylindrical vessel open at both ends and to a central portion of which a processing fluid is continuously supplied through a port in the wall of the vessel.... | 02/14/1978 |
| 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 |
| 4063497 | Apparatus for making crepes or the like An apparatus for use with a crepe pan for making crepes or the like, the apparatus generally comprising a pan support frame for supporting the crepe pan and means for moving the pan support frame in a first direction to a handling position where the pan i... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4051772 | Machine for dispensing heated sausage from a cold storage compartment A coin-operated machine for dispensing heated sausage from a cold storage compartment where the sausages are kept in a frozen condition. Two superposed rollers being rotated step by step in synchronism about a horizontal axes in a vertical portion of a ch... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4048473 | Food cooking machine A food cooking machine comprises a generally cylindrical vessel having liquid impervious walls, a closed end and an open end. A removable cap having a central axial vent opening closes the open end. The vessel is detachably supported on a base having a dr... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4034661 | Apparatus for heating and dispensing food articles Apparatus for heating and dispensing skewer-supported food articles such as hotdogs and the like, preferably along with buns therefor including a housing means having feed and discharge openings for the skewer-supported food articles and the buns, magazin... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4026202 | Apparatus for automatically producing waffles and similar food articles An elongated endless conveyor unit extends in a horizontal plane and successively carries a plurality of article forming molds from a batter coating station through a hot oil within a cooking vessel located under the conveyor and then to a discharge stati... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4005646 | Rotatable grill A rotatable grill for demountably retaining food objects consisting of a first basket half and a second basket half which is similar in size to the first basket half and a pivotable bracket means for adjustably joining the ends of the bracket halves to fo... | 02/01/1977 |
| 3996847 | Apparatus for heating food products Food products, for example, hamburger patties, are rapidly cooked with reduced weight losses. A cooking appliance is provided having a plurality of parallely spaced heat transfer fins from which project an array of cooking grills on which the hamburger pa... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3990357 | Gang-type product knockout and receiving means A product knockout and receiving means for removing a loaf meat from a mechanism of loaf molds including a gang of knockout bars, one each in alignment with each mold for engaging and pushing a plug within the mold to drive the loaf meat product from the ... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3978780 | Cooking utensil A cooking utensil comprising a receptacle for batter and a pumping member at least partially in the receptacle. The receptacle has a bottom wall and an open top and the pumping member is mounted for movement toward and away from the bottom wall. A heater ... | 09/07/1976 |
| 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 |
| 3972276 | Cooking appliance A cooking appliance of a chamber with a horizontal rotatable support disposed therein. A first heating element is provided above said support and one side of a shaft on which said support is mounted, and a second heating element disposed below said suppor... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3951052 | Barbecuing apparatus Barbecuing apparatus having a plurality of broiling trays arranged to rotate about a common axis. The trays are circumferentially spaced about a rotary shaft, extend radially with respect thereto, and are releasably mounted on disks and arms attached to t... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3949660 | Apparatus for forming shells of dough A high pressure press including a cup-shaped die member having a relatively narrow, essentially rigidly fixed outer confining lip movable into engagement with a flat bed to define a closed fluid tight cavity for compressing a dough patty into a flat shell... | 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 |
| 3948158 | Multiple-stage gang-type plug pushing assembly Mechanism for applying a squeezing force to a food product in a mold, including a fluid motor driving a reciprocal rod for engaging and applying a force to a plug movably positionable within the mold. The reciprocal rod is driven by the fluid motor to mov... | 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 |
| 3943910 | Gas broiler Steaks, chops, hamburger patties or other meat to be broiled is reciprocated on a reciprocating grill transversely of a pair of elongated spaced apart horizontally disposed upper heat sources in such a manner that each of spaced apart outer ends of the me... | 03/16/1976 |
