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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7134386 | Automatic bottom-filling injection system A multi-port, bottom-filling injection device having a filling head that splits a flow of filling among two or more spouts or needles. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an injection device comprises a filling head having several spouts atta... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7107900 | Apparatus for adding an edible filling to a bagel at a point of sale An apparatus for enhancing the properties of a bagel by adding an edible filling in a soft porous interior portion of the bagel. In a first embodiment of the invention, the invention is comprised of a stand for mounting a bagel for rotation about a horizontal axis a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7011859 | Method for making a sandwich A method for inserting one foodstuff, such as sandwich fixings, into a second foodstuff, such as a bread bun, which includes forming a cavity in the second foodstuff. The cavity may be formed by drilling with an elongated, cylindrical drill bit. The first foodstuff ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6948423 | Apparatus for producing confectionery Disclosed is an apparatus for producing confectionery. In the apparatus for producing confectionery, a material injection unit for supplying materials into a confectionary mold includes a hopper, an injector, a hose, and a piston actuator, which are detachably conne... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6860197 | Food injection device Food Injection Device has an injection tube member and integral handle, and a piston holding stand. The tube member is rigid and has a thin wall structure capable of piercing and penetrating a variety of food items and retaining the food items for future deposit int... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6582741 | Device for stuffing meat products and related method A device is particularly well suited for introducing a continuous length of food stuffing into an elongated food product. The device uses a tube having opposite, open ends and an inner wall defining a longitudinal passage extending between such opposite e... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6117467 | Method and apparatus for stuffing foodstuffs Apparatus for preparation of foods and methods for using the apparatus. The apparatus comprises an elongated hollow sleeve having a generally square cross section and a square longitudinal bore. One end of the sleeve is cut at an angle forming a pointed t... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5900265 | Apparatus and method for inserting a filling into a food product Apparatus and method for inserting fillings into foods such as bagels, donuts, other pastries and confectioneries. A base supports a movable platform onto which a restraining device are mounted for fixing a food to be filled in a fixed position. Coiled tu... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5664487 | Sanitary filling nozzle mount A sanitary nozzle mount for use with a filling apparatus for flowing food product includes elongated, hollow, slidably engageable inner and outer filling tubes and a spacer coupling adapted to secure the inner and outer tubes in axially spaced relation wi... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5632198 | Automatic cooking apparatus In the automatic cooking apparatus of the present invention, when a conveyor start signal is received from a master control section, a CPU uses a foodstuff detecting sensor to detect whether a predetermined amount of a foodstuff is stored in a storage and... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5359925 | Apparatus for producing an edible sandwich An apparatus for producing an edible sandwich having a cavity with uniform thickness of bread surrounding the cavity. Edible filler material is injected into the cavity that has a self-sealing entrance. The apparatus forms the sandwich by first making a k... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5198245 | Apparatus for the manufacture of extruded cakes An apparatus for the production of extruded cakes of a paste-form material has an extrusion die nozzle which has combs having toothed profiles pivotally mounted in the lateral and upper portions of the extrusion passage of the extrusion nozzle and to whic... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5184543 | Motorized air pressure seasoner Disclosed is a seasoning device having a chamber designed to be filled with, for example, liquid and granular seasonings mixed together and having a plurality of hollow needles forming outlets from the chamber. The device includes a pumping mechanism whic... | 02/09/1993 |
| 4958556 | Filled cracker making apparatus Baked goods and in particular hard biscuits and crackers which are hollow and which are adapted to contain a filling are inverted subsequent to baking so that the biscuit or cracker can have a filling inserted therein from the side of the biscuit or crack... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4928592 | Dual injection cake filler apparatus An apparatus for injecting soft baked goods or cakes with different fluids includes a manifold defining a pair of spaced supply channels or chambers, a supply valve defining a port and a slide gate valve. The slide gate valve communicates with a passage a... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4752488 | Method of injecting viscous fluid into bread or confectionery A method of injecting viscous fluid into bread or confectionery is provided. Viscous fluid is drawn by a piston from a hopper through a 3-port valve into the chamber of a first piston cylinder, and after changing the position of the valve the viscous flui... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4703688 | Sandwich-filling apparatus A flowable filling is placed in a piece of bread to make a sandwich by first blocking the front end of a tube extending along a longitudinal axis and having a rear end axially behind the front tube end and then filling the tube behind the blocked front en... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4669967 | Apparatus for quantitatively extruding food material An apparatus for quantitatively extruding food material is provided. The apparatus comprises a hopper, a frame supporting the hopper and having a chamber therein with first and second ports, to which a nozzle and a piston and cylinder assembly are connected, a... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4467708 | Stripper for filling machine The present invention is a stripping apparatus for a machine that provides a filling in the interior of an article, such as a cake, continuously conveyed through the machine. The machine includes a filling manifold to which filling needles are rigidly att... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4178660 | Method and apparatus for introducing and distributing food additives in meats A method and apparatus for introducing and distributing meat additives into bodies of meat are described. The apparatus includes a cylindrical container having a detachable pointed tip for piercing the body of meat and may also include a plunger to fit in... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4057874 | Food pattie molding tool Disclosed is a tool for molding food patties in the form of a cylinder having an open bottom. A piston slidably disposed within the cylinder has a pushrod projecting upwardly out of the cylinder and is guided for vertical reciprocating movements. A handle... | 11/15/1977 |
| 3999691 | Cake filler Dispensing apparatus for semi-fluid material includes a housing having a vertical bore and a second bore connecting with this vertical bore. A piston is slidably mounted within said second bore and is movable between a first position spaced from the verti... | 12/28/1976 |
