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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4543879 | Plant for bringing about enzyme-deactivation in fruit and vegetables: tomatoes in particular The invention relates to a technological process for deactivating enzymes in fruit and vegetables, and to plant used therefor--tomato being the example adopted. The process basically speaking is one of feeding-in whole tomatoes under vacuum, chopping or m... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4539903 | Filling apparatus A filling apparatus for charging a liquid or highly viscous product into containers. The apparatus has a pressurizing tank, buffer tank, filling tank and a filling machine. The tanks have controllable pneumatic internal pressure. The product is fed at a h... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4537122 | Skin removal apparatus for almonds The present invention relates to a fluid bed process for the removal of skins from edible nuts.... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4534283 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing bean curd A method and an apparatus for manufacturing bean curd is disclosed wherein the slurry which comprises milled soybeans which is obtained by grinding the soybeans after they have been dipped in water for about 12 hours and added water is heated in a vessel ... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4524681 | Methods and apparatus for thermal blast feeling, skinning, or shelling of food products This disclosure embodies an apparatus and process for the rapid removal of outer coverings and other unedible portions from food products with minimal loss of or damage to edible portions. The process has proven to be effective in the peeling of fruit and... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4508029 | Apparatus for preparing feed grain A grain scratcher-moisturizer apparatus has an outlet connected by a screw conveyor to the infeed of a steam flaker assembly to provide substantial savings in the cost of treating feed grain. The scratcher-moisturizer has two driven parallel horizontal cy... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4506600 | Canning apparatus A process and apparatus for treating a foodstuff in a container which is to be hermetically sealed characterized in that the container is extended by means of an extension piece, foodstuff is added so that it fills the container and at least part of the e... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4499819 | Steamer This invention is a steamer for restaurants, used for steaming bread or rolls; including a case with hinged cover, a tray in the case, upon which the food is placed, and water directly from a public water supply delivered to an electric heating element fo... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4499818 | Method and apparatus for holding freshly prepared fried food products An apparatus and method are disclosed for maintaining the crispness and sensory appeal of fried food products after they are fried, but before they are served. The invention contemplates that freshly fried food products are positioned in a product holding... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4481875 | Bulb peeling apparatus Here is disclosed a bulb peeling apparatus wherein a means of incising grooves on the outer peripheral surface skins of bulbs while rotating the bulbs is arranged in the course of a bulb conveying means and a compressed air blowing means is arranged furth... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4476778 | Onion peeling An onion peeling machine having a wheel for transporting the onions past a series of stations, where the onions are topped and peeled, the outer skins slit longitudinally of the onion, and the skin removed by water jets. The machine also includes separati... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4470345 | Apparatus for peeling skins off the bulbs of onions Apparatus for peeling onion skins from the bulbs of onions comprising conveyor means for transporting the onion bulbs from a supply thereof and a roller conveyor including a plurality of rotatable cutters. The onion bulbs are supplied by the conveyor mean... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4464984 | Plant for the preparation of fodder A plant for the preparation of fodder comprising a portion of solid foodstock in the form of grains or kernels and a portion of water. The plant includes a silo for the solid foodstock, a device for removing the solid foodstock from the silo, a conveying ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4457221 | Sterilization apparatus A process and apparatus for killing organisms in situ within a host by means of successive short-duration high-current-density pulses of electricity of alternately opposite polarity. These pulses are passed through the host and concomitantly the organisms... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4457224 | Apparatus for stripping onions An apparatus for stripping onions, in which an onion is withdrawn into a cylindrical onion guide path by vacuum pressure produced as compressed air is discharged at a high speed from a nozzle and is discharged from the cylindrical path into a separating c... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4454804 | Apparatus for incorporating additives in extruded foods A method and apparatus for incorporating one or more additives throughout an expanded food product. An expandable mixture of moistened farinaceous and/or proteinaceous materials is extruded at elevated temperatures and pressures through the die orifice of... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4452132 | Food steamer A food steamer includes a housing that contains a steam generating chamber covered by a removable top plate that mounts a plurality of steam injection needles. Steam is conveyed from the chamber upwardly through the needles, exiting through the upper open... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4450760 | Apparatus for removing rot from potatoes An apparatus for removing decayed portions from the exterior of potatoes is disclosed. The potatoes are supported and advanced on a series of rollers some of which include a plurality of resilient fingers which disrupt the decayed portions of the potato s... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4446778 | Pasteurization system with heat recovery A pasteurization system for dairy farming products, comprises several basins wherein the pasteurization cycle is effected in sequence so that the heat taken from a basin during cooling phase of the same is utilized to effect the heating phase of one or mo... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4438681 | Installation for solubilizing cocoa A mixture of steam and a concentrated solution of an alkali carbonate are continuously injected under pressure into a cocoa mass in a tube, whereby the carbonate reacts with the cocoa mass under pressure in the tube at at least 120° C. to form a reacted ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4437396 | Air heated sandwich bin A heated, moist air sandwich bin for maintaining sandwiches therewithin sufficiently moist and at pre-selected appropriately elevated temperatures comprising a front always open service opening through which sandwiches may be inserted into and/or removed ... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4432276 | Contrivance for heating, pasteurizing and sterilizing fluid foodstuffs The invention relates to apparatus for heating/pasteurizing/sterilizing fluids, which comprises a main chamber (1) in which the substance to be heated is brought into direct contact with heating fluid, and a transit chamber (4) in which the substance circ... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4430933 | Trimmer for vegetables using fixed shear bar and unsharpened rotary members cooperative therewith A machine for accomplishing the removal of leaves and other unwanted portions from vegetables comprising an elongate shear bar having two opposed, machined edges and a pair of elongate members mounted for rotation in close proximity to the machined edges.... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4430925 | Pressure vessel with improved security A rotatably supported pressure vessel is disclosed for treating product under high pressure. A pressure medium is supplied to the pressure vessel through two separate supply conducts feeding the pressure medium under different pressures. When supplying th... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4418089 | Method and apparatus for producing a cellular food product A method and apparatus for producing a cellular chocolate product in which a supply of chocolate is heated to bring it to a molten state, a gas which is largely soluble in the chocolate is introduced into the molten chocolate under pressure, the molten ch... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4401019 | Apparatus for thermochemical treatment of crushed straw and or dry fodder mixtures An apparatus for thermochemical treatment of crushed straw and/or dry fodder mixtures comprises a vessel which is vertically mounted and is formed by a series of vertically communicating chambers. A chamber arranged at the top of the vessel is a cyclone-t... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4393756 | Steam peeling or cooking apparatus A steam peeling or cooking apparatus for plants, such as potatoes, carrots, celery, red beets, Swedish turnips, apples and the like or for pulp, provided with a substantially cylindrical peeling vessel arranged rotatably about horizontal trunnions, having... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4392418 | Cooking apparatus An apparatus for cooking large quantities of a food product such as corn. To ensure that the individual particles of the food product being prepared will not stick together and will be uniformly cooked, each particle is surrounded by water at a controlled... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4387630 | Food processing with steam The continuous processing of food products with steam, such as for blanching or cooking of vegetal products. The apparatus comprises a heating module and holding module. The heating module includes a pervious conveyor through which steam is emitted to hea... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4381703 | Vertical soak tank with improved levelling and weighing apparatus A vertical soak tank wherein a downwardly moving compact bed of solids is contacted with liquid which floods the bed, includes mechanical components to level the solids and assure that they are maintained in a first-in first-out basis by an incoming mater... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4380127 | Dehydrator apparatus with unidirectional air flow control means A dehydrator apparatus for foodstuffs and the like comprising a generally cylindrical tubular housing having a motor driven fan disposed generally centrally therein and above a base wall portion. A plurality of air inlet flow channels are provided in the ... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4371117 | Production of powdered sugar In a process for the production of powdered sugar, and an apparatus for carrying out the process, refined crystalline sugar is pulverized in a disintegrator positioned above a discharge hopper having filter walls to allow air to escape, the pulverized sug... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4361084 | Industrial peeler for onions or the like bulbous and tuberous vegetation Vegetables such as onions are rotated about their axes which are vertically oriented. As the vegetables move from an orienting unit to a cutting/notching mechanism, their rectilinear movement is ensured by engaging their opposite sides by opposed members ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4357863 | Settable orifice An adjustable orifice in the steam supply line to a gelatinizer has a pair of facing flanges. An orifice plate between the flanges is adjusted with the orifice offset to the bore through the flanges so that the proper amount of steam is supplied to the ge... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4355572 | Apparatus for separating the pulp from the skin of fruit such as tomatoes Apparatus and methods are described for separating the pulp from the skin of fruit, such as tomatoes, in which each fruit is gripped and transported by mechanism along a predetermined path, a cut to the skin of the fruit is produced by cutting device adja... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4352325 | Apparatus for processing whole beets Whole beets are graded by size and fed one at a time to a bank of beet cutting assemblies. The whole beets are cut into a cylindrical plug member and a plurality of segment members. The plug members and segment members are separated by a suitable grading ... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4344359 | Automatic machine for peeling hard-boiled eggs The invention relates to an automatic machine for peeling hard-boiled eggs. The machine comprises a frame 3, a rotating stand comprising a plate 14 mounted at an end of a vertical shaft 7 rotating in a bearing 4, hard-boiled egg receiver cups 17 suspended arou... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4326455 | Continuous production of grain products Embodiments of this invention include methods and apparatus for the production of flour from which products such as corn tortillas, tortilla chips, "taco shells", and the like, may be produced, in a continuous process, by pre-cooking the grain, stabilizin... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4325296 | Apparatus for adjusting internal pressure of aseptic storage tank A method and apparatus for supplying and maintaining an aseptic gas atmosphere in a storage tank for spoilable contents such as foodstuffs and the like. The aseptic gas is supplied from a container under pressure and is maintained at the desired pressure ... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4313372 | Citrus processing system and method A system for processing citrus fruit includes a juice extractor and finisher from which wet peel and pulp and finished juice are obtained. The stream of wet peel pulp is separated into press liquor and press cake components. The press cake is introduced i... | 02/02/1982 |
