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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7225730 | Spit assembly support base A support base for supporting the spit assembly of a rotisserie oven. The support base includes a substantially circular-shaped member having a periphery and an indented portion defined therein. The indented portion has a frustum-conical shape and extends downwardly... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225729 | Countertop rotisserie oven with warming unit Enclosed rotisserie with added convenience, including a countertop resting box-like enclosure housing a safety rear mounted heating element and a power rotated dual rod spit assembly. The gear driven spit assembly may be easily inserted and removed straight into and... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7021203 | Vented countertop rotisserie oven An enclosed rotisserie cooking oven having an enclosure able to rest on a horizontal surface housing a rotisserie spit, and opening to introduce food into the enclosure, a door covering the opening having a first and a second axle rod protruding from the door's peri... | 04/04/2006 |
| 5501141 | Tortilla warming apparatus An apparatus for warming one or more tortillas or other flat foods is disclosed. A round top pan and a round bottom pan each have a flat, circular base portion defined by an interior and an exterior flat surface. The base portions are surrounded by an int... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5469782 | Food flipping assembly A food flipping assembly (4), used to automatically flip food 180° while cooking, includes a frame (16) having cam-carrying U-shaped arms (24, 25), and a pair of movable support plates (38) slidably mounted to the U-shaped arms for movement between first... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5441755 | Method of baking using a plurality of pivotable plates A method and device for baking dough or batter comprising at least two heatable plates, each of them having a top side, wherein the dough or batter is automatically put on the first and second heated plates for making pastries, pancakes and the like. The ... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5148975 | Trash receptacle tray support and method for emptying tray A trash receptacle tray support configured and capable of supporting a tray for use in emptying contents of a tray into a trash receptacle. A tray support having a hinged attachment for pivoting a supported tray toward a trash receptacle so that trash is ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 4936201 | Turner arm assembly for a doughnut fryer A turner arm assembly for a doughnut fryer has a pivot axle on one end that is provided with a hardened ball mounted in a cylindrical hardened bearing of the sidewall of a conveyor assembly. In an alternative form a straight diameter pivot axle is provide... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4645404 | Apparatus for removing an adhered fragile food product from a support surface An apparatus for use in releasing a fragile food product which has become stuck to a support surface as a result of a prior processing operation, and for transferring the released food product from the support surface in an orderly fashion so that the foo... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4528902 | Pod vegetable processing machine with pod deflecting device A machine for processing pod vegetables including a frame. A generally horizontal outer drum is rotatably mounted on the frame and is adapted to contain the pod vegetables being processed. The outer drum has an inwardly presented working surface adapted t... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4379055 | Apparatus for the drip dry conveyance of oil-fried dough products Method and apparatus for draining and expunging excess oil from delicate pizza crusts which have been fried in oil, adapted for association with discharge mechanism of a crust fryer, functioning in cooperation therewith to receive, drain, and manipulative... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4311087 | Cheese-draining apparatus Multi-cavity molds coact with respective table elements forming a drainage table. Between each mold and the corresponding table element is a connecting means allowing the mold to slide between a normal cheese-draining position against the table element an... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4213383 | Bean snipper A bean snipper having an annular drum including openings in the drum of a size to receive beans and to permit only the ends of the beans to protrude outwardly from the outer surface of the drum, knives held in contiguous relationship to the outer surface ... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4098909 | Cookie capper method As a plurality of rows of baked cookie halves, each having a flat side and a rounded side, leave the oven-cooler on a transfer conveyor belt they are allowed to fall off the end of the belt onto a lower conveyor belt. Every other row is allowed to free-fa... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4088360 | Kitchen utensil A culinary article for turning over foods such as eggs, without flipping them, has a spatula section to pick up the food, a curved surface over which the food next slides to partially turn it over, an opposing, coacting curved surface which receives the f... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4015519 | Apparatus for storing cheese loaves and for periodically turning them upside down A horizontal supply conveyor carrying a board with a number of loaves of cheese thereon is mounted for vertical adjustment in front of the open ends of a multiplicity of horizontal guideways disposed in superimposed and in juxtaposed relationship. By sele... | 04/05/1977 |
