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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon

A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.

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Class 99/485 - MEANS TO TREAT FOOD


Subclass of Class 99 - Foods and beverages: apparatus
Definition: Device including means to modify a property of food other
No. of patents: 141
Last issue date: 10/14/2008


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NumberTitleIssue Date
4513658Container for activation of microbiophysical properties of substances especially food-stuffs
The invention relates to a container for activation of microbiophysical properties of substances, especially of food-stuffs. The container is a spatial form in a shape of a cylinder 1 with an open flank to which along the whole height at both sides two pl...
04/30/1985
4511318Dough rolling apparatus for laminated cookies
An apparatus for making a generally spherical laminate dough preform that has a first inner dough substantially uniformly encapsulated by one or more outer doughs. If the preform contains morsels such as flavored chips, the appparatus will distribute and ...
04/16/1985
4476686Methods and apparatus for chilling a product
A product such as ground meat is efficiently chilled in a blender device having an open top. Liquid carbon dioxide is introduced into the blender at a location below the surface of the product to thereby form solid and gaseous CO2. Mixing eleme...
10/16/1984
4376515Apparatus for the continuous manufacture of a mixed fodder
An apparatus for the continuous manufacture of a mixed fodder comprises a stationary drum having an infeed opening for straw bales at one end of the peripheral drum wall and an outlet for finished fodder mix at the opposite end. Centrally of the drum ther...
03/15/1983
4356206Method of massaging meat products
A meat massage machine is disclosed comprising a closable container having two shafts extending therethrough with a plurality of smooth, closely spaced paddles thereon. The shafts are individually powered by hydraulic motors. A vacuum pump or the like is ...
10/26/1982
4355571Aromatizing apparatus
Particulate material to be aromatized is fed to the circumferentially grooved surface of a rotating wheel which carries said material from the in-feed to the discharge stage of its rotation during which travel the material is injected with a predetermined...
10/26/1982
4275648Method and apparatus for producing fruit juices
An apparatus for producing a fruit juice by the enzymatic reaction of a whole fruit including the rind, a fruit rind, a squeeze residue or a frozen product thereof as a raw material, the improvement wherein the enzymatic reaction is carried out while fine...
06/30/1981
4266472Fruit preparation
A process for producing a fruit preparation from a natural fruit juice, the process comprises removing water from the juice by flowing the juice on a heated, reciprocable, inclinable surface to reduce the water content to 10 to 25% by volume. A crystallin...
05/12/1981
4195935Apparatus for treating materials containing cocoa butter
An apparatus for treating materials containing cocoa butter with regard to air entrained therein in which rotating blades beat and distribute the air bubbles in the material into smaller sizes and evenly dispersed arrangement....
04/01/1980
4184422Mixing material in sealed containers
Mixing or homogenizing an avian egg by piercing the egg at its smaller end with a relatively small upwardly pointing needle while holding the egg in the hand, said needle having an offset portion, and then rapidly rotating the needle so that said offset p...
01/22/1980
4184775Apparatus for washing cereals
An apparatus for washing cerals with a rotar powered by a jet water by collecting a certain amount of cereals in the container....
01/22/1980
4161139Conditioning apparatus
Apparatus for the treatment of animal feedstuff prior to pelletizing thereof comprising a conditioning vessel and at least one sterilization vessel, each of which is in the form of a cylindrical drum, means for feeding the material to be treated through t...
07/17/1979
4144293Whipped cream making machine
A machine for making an emulsified product from a mixture of a gas and a liquid milk product capable of forming a foam which comprises a fixed whipping barrel, having a substantially labyrinth passage defined therein, and to which the liquid milk product,...
03/13/1979
4019430Vacuum egg lifting and penetrating means
An improved egg handling device is disclosed in which a number of egg lifting vacuum cups, mounted on a convenient support, are used both to transfer eggs and to punch the egg shells. The egg piercing system is incorporated with the transfer cups to provi...
04/26/1977
4011806Apparatus for making feed stuff containing bagasse, protein and yeast
Disclosed is apparatus for making a feed stuff for cattles, pigs, or poultry by subjecting a mixture of bagasse, Candida utilis or a variety of yeast fungus, var major, and Tichoderma viride to a fermentation treatment, mixing a fermentation product with ...
03/15/1977
3996847Apparatus 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
3988953Method and apparatus for treating vegetable segments
A process and apparatus for puncturing or perforating vegetable segments wherein the perforating step is integrally connected with the cutting and slicing of the segments prior to blanching, dehydrating and/or rehydrating whereby the time of processing of...
11/02/1976
3988976Equipment for the improvement of the efficiency of drying shelled maize
Kernel corn is dried by piercing the pericarp prior to drying. Apparatus for doing this comprises means to feed the kernels in uniformly oriented relation to a needle cylinder with a stripping comb. The kernels are resiliently pressed against the needle c...
11/02/1976
3986446Dough proofing apparatus
A dough proofing apparatus is for use in association with a dough forming apparatus having a dough piece receiving means which receives preformed dough pieces from a dough dividing machine and directs them toward a toroid forming apparatus wherein the pro...
10/19/1976
3961570Apparatus for obtaining a specific fat content in milk
An improvement in the method and apparatus for obtaining the specific fat content of milk wherein whole milk and skimmed milk are mixed together as they flow, and the amount of skimmed milk is added according to the previously determined fat content of th...
06/08/1976
3955489Process for continuously producing a roasted cocoa mass and for manufacturing a chocolate mass
A roasted cocoa mass or blend is produced in a continuous process by crushing raw cocoa beans after dehulling to form a more or less liquid mass which is moved as a thin layer over and in contact with a smooth roasting surface heated to between 110°C and...
05/11/1976
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