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Automatic Bed Maker

An automatic bed maker which uses the expansion of inflatable bladder to straighten, align, and tuck-in bed-cover assembly.

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Class 99/442 - For ring shaped or hollow article


Subclass of Class 99 - Foods and beverages: apparatus
Definition: Cooking apparatus in which the food support is so modified
No. of patents: 38
Last issue date: 04/24/2007


NumberTitleIssue Date
7207291Pet feeding dish
An improved pet feeding dish is herein disclosed for causing pets to eat their mealtime ration at a slower pace. The pet feeding dish generally comprises an annular-shaped trough which compels the pet to move its snout in a circular fashion therethrough, thereby slo...
04/24/2007
7163185System, method and article of manufacture for three dimensional bride and groom cake kit
A baking system that allows the user to create a three-dimensional cake having the form of a bride and groom, or man and woman. The substantial part of the human forms is accomplished by a molding process using cake, candy or chocolate. Utilizing 2 piece pans; havin...
01/16/2007
7150221Multiple cake baking assembly
An assembly for forming multiple individual compound desserts in a predetermined dome shape including a base tray having a plurality of recessed cavities to form a base for said compound dessert. A rack and a plurality of dome shaped bowl assemblies secured in a fix...
12/19/2006
7100498Concentric bund cake pan
An apparatus assembly for forming a compound dessert in a predetermined compound ring shape including a first outer ring shaped pan defining a cavity, the cavity having a dome shaped cross section with a closed circular end, an open end and a centrally positioned fu...
09/05/2006
7090269Culinary apparatus
An apparatus for holding a pastry item, includes a container member for at least partially containing a pastry item, e.g., a cookie. The container member is dimensioned and configured for insertion into a vessel containing a liquid therein. The container member incl...
08/15/2006
6938540Concentric bundt cake pan
An apparatus assembly for forming a compound dessert in a predetermined compound ring shape including a first outer ring shaped pan defining a cavity, the cavity having a dome shaped cross section with a closed circular end and an open end. A cover including a secon...
09/06/2005
6851352Covered dual concentric dome mold
An apparatus assembly for forming a compound dessert in a predetermined dome shape including a first outer mold having a dome shaped bowl with a closed semi-spherical end and an open end, and a ring shaped support base secured to said closed end of bowl body. A cove...
02/08/2005
6840162Dual concentric dome mold
An apparatus assembly for forming a compound dessert in a predetermined dome shape including a first outer mold having a dome shaped bowl with a closed semi-spherical end and an open end, and a ring shaped planar support base secured to said closed end of bowl body....
01/11/2005
6698336Baking dish for cooking, serving and storing food
A baking dish includes a generally shallow platter made of ceramic material suitable to withstand a baking environment and having a baking surface defining a supporting plane on which a baked product can be made. A substantially upright continuous wall in...
03/02/2004
6681684Multi-layer platter apparatus
A multi-layer platter apparatus includes an extensible elongated rod having a plurality of hollow tapered sections which are disposed concentrically one around the other in a retracted position and which are movable relative to one another along the lengt...
01/27/2004
6508166Donut 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
6444245Method and apparatus to form a toroid filled bagel dough product
A method and apparatus of making a toroid filled bagel dough product and the product formed thereby. The product can be produce by a method comprising adding the ingredients into a dough mixer; transferring the dough to a hopper above a sheeting extruder ...
09/03/2002
6227103Machine for forming cones
A machine for making cones from baked wafers utilizes roll-up mechanism in the form of a roll-up mandrel and a roll-up form. A multiplicity of such mechanisms is carried by a chain along an endless path. Each roll-up mechanism can have a frame on which th...
05/08/2001
6004602Method 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
5988048Apparatus for shaping deep-fried food product
The invention includes a process for preparing a unified serving of a batter-cooked food, for example shrimp tempura in the shape of a ring, that comprises the steps of: providing multiple pieces of a food to be cooked; coating each piece with a batter; f...
11/23/1999
5918534Cooking spit with heat transfer means
A cooking spit including a heat transfer arrangement for the cooking or roasting of foods, especially such as fowl or other types of meats, wherein the cooking spit is adapted to be rotated as a component of a rotisserie. More particularly, there is provi...
07/06/1999
5753292Multipartite baking form and method for making edible baked articles
A downwardly tapering core forms a guide part for an end portion which can be pushed into the core so as to be flush therewith when the core is introduced into a downwardly tapering cavity in the form member in the production of ice cream cups, cones or t...
05/19/1998
5693355Composite pastry mold and baked goods production process
A baking mold for baking goods includes an upper movable and substantially conical part provided with independently slidable guide part which has a plurality of steam vents providing a free passage for the steam upon displacing the upper part into a lower...
12/02/1997
5690019Bread bun mold
A baking utensil so shaped as to mold within bread dough baked upon it one or more buns, each with a recess to retain a weiner, bratwurst, frankfurter, processed meat link, hamburger or other cooked meat product....
11/25/1997
5685217Meatball cooking device
A device for cooking meatballs, which may be made for use in a microwave oven, conventional oven or stove-top. The invention comprises a horizontal drip pan having a plurality of relatively short vertical pegs projecting upward from the bottom, spaced thr...
11/11/1997
5676050Cake mold
A cake mold includes a base having a number of receptacles disposed thereon, and ring-shaped side parts of different diameters that are adapted for inserting into corresponding receptacles. The side parts are independent of and separate from the base. In ...
10/14/1997
5662028Apparatus for the preparation of fowl
An appliance for the preparation of fowl which has been dressed, comprising a heat transfer member having an exterior configuration which substantially conforms to the interior cavity of the dressed fowl and which, when inserted into the cavity, makes sub...
09/02/1997
5601012Apparatus for baking bread bowls and method of use thereof
Systems and methods for baking bread bowls are described. A bread bowl baker includes a concavo-convex body including a wide diameter circumference and a narrow diameter circumference; a first end coextensively joined to the wide diameter circumference, t...
02/11/1997
5586489Method and apparatus for the preparation of fowl
Apparatus or device for the preparation of fowl which has been dressed, comprising a heat transfer member having an exterior configuration which substantially conforms to the interior cavity of the dressed fowl and which, when inserted into the cavity, ma...
12/24/1996
5584232Portable oven
There is disclosed a multi-piece portable oven having an oven body (22), a baking mold (24), and a cover (28). Oven body (22) has and upwardly extending cylindrical sidewall (34) and a substantially flat bottom (32). Baking mold (24) has an upwardly exten...
12/17/1996
5540140Useful improvements in machines and methods for making arepas
Machines are disclosed for making arepas from corn flour dough which is then formed into arepas in a cavity situated between abutting, opposing forming members. The cavity, when the forming members are closed with dough occupying the cavity, is of predete...
07/30/1996
5537917Multi-purpose cake pan
An improved, multi-purpose cake pan which offers the flexibility of having both a flat-cake pan and a tube-cake pan, the compact storageability of a single cake pan, and a simplified means of removing either a flat-cake or a tube-cake from the outer rim o...
07/23/1996
5533439Apparatus for producing flat-bottomed edible containers
The present invention relates to an edible container, its production process and its production apparatus, and its object is to easily and reliably form a bottom surface for said edible container that enables it to be set down. This object is achieved by ...
07/09/1996
5129451Heat transfer ring
A heat transfer ring that is readily usable in any application requiring heat transfer from a heat source to a medium coming in contact with the ring. The ring may also be used in a reverse application where it is used to cool the medium coming into conta...
07/14/1992
5000084Baking appliance
A baking apparatus with a plurality of spaced-apart female molds, and a co-acting top tray provided with and equal plurality of hollow spikes adapted to extend downwardly into the female molds which produce an elongated cavity in a bread roll baked in the...
03/19/1991
4715273Cooking apparatus
The invention concerns a process for cooking and preferably roasting or grilling food, in particular food with an accessible cavity such as fowl or the like, wherein the food is heated simultaneously externally and internally and when preferably at least ...
12/29/1987
4241649Apparatus for making filled food product
The apparatus 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 the dough piece fixed during raising and baking after which the cavity in...
12/30/1980
4224863Donut making devices
A portable device for making donuts and the like which includes a batter extruder, a cooking scroll into which the extruded batter is received, a heating element underlying the scroll for heating the cooking medium introduced therein for cooking the extru...
09/30/1980
4175483Donut maker appliance with improved means for coating batter with cooking oil
A donut making appliance includes upper and lower electrically heated grids movable into and out of mating engagement along first surfaces. Each of the first surfaces of the grids includes a predeterminedly placed annular recess having a central core. Upo...
11/27/1979
4162333Method 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
4119020Apparatus 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
4054086Home donut maker
A donut maker for home use is disclosed which provides perfectly cooked and formed donuts having excellent taste and appearance characteristics notwithstanding the complete elimination of conventional deep fat frying of the donuts. The preferred device in...
10/18/1977
3947212Apparatus for making pastry cups and the like
Apparatus for and method of making products, such as pastry cups, ice cream cones and the like, by baking batter in split molds carried by mold bars, the molds cooperating with removable cores carried by core bars selectively latched to the mold bars. The...
03/30/1976
 
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