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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107873 | Image forming apparatus conveying sheets based on previously conveyed sheets One embodiment of an image forming apparatus according to the present invention is an image forming apparatus in which registration rollers are arranged immediately before an electrostatic latent bearing member and, after a carried paper is caused to temporarily sto... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8073378 | Xerographic station deskew mechanism In a color marking assembly, a series or plurality of ROS-imaging station units are aligned above an endless image transfer belt. Since there are a plurality of units, image alignment between the several station units is important. To accomplish this, skewing of eac... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7986912 | Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus with rollers to correct sheet misalignment A sheet conveying apparatus which conveys a recording sheet fed from a sheet feeding section toward a transfer position with controlled timing, including: a pair of registration rollers; a pair of loop rollers to form a loop of the recording sheet, the loop rollers ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7894764 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, which includes: an image forming section to form an image on a transfer sheet conveyed to the image forming section; an edge detecting sensor which detects an edge position of the transfer sheet in a main scanning direction while the tran... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7620361 | Image forming apparatus and control method therefor An image forming apparatus, which is capable of correctly and accurately detecting a sheet leading edge position and carrying out image formation in appropriate image write timing, includes a detection device disposed at a reference position upstream from the transf... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7477869 | Electrophotographic printing apparatus and printing system In an electrophotographic printing apparatus for printing an image to an image transfer sheet medium by producing a latent image on a photosensitive unit and transferring the latent image to the image transfer sheet medium, a width-directional position of the image ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7444114 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus that conveys a long belt-like recording sheet on a conveyance path and forms an image on the recording sheet when the recording sheet passes through an image forming section, the image forming apparatus comprising: a recording medium drive... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7398047 | Image tracking control algorithm An image-to-sheet closed loop registration system tracking the image drum position and/or velocity and coordinating movement of the sheet into the transfer nip based on such information. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7357584 | Sheet transport device Disclosed is a sheet transport device having: a registration roller to transport a sheet after correcting a skew of the sheet; a drive source to drive the registration roller; a frame body; and a rotation resisting body which is connected to the registration roller ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354038 | Jam suppressing sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet tray, a pickup roller, a feed roller, a driving motor to drive the feed roller via a feed clutch, and a reverse roller connected to a reverse shaft driven by the driving motor via a torque limiter. The feed clutch is turned... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7338042 | Sheet supplying apparatus The uppermost original of a bundle of originals placed on a stacking tray is photographed by an area sensor, and on the basis of chroma saturation information of image information thus obtained, whether the original to be separated is a color original is discriminat... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7322760 | Antijamming device for printers put in public places An antijamming device for a printed ticket vending machine having an exit opening for exiting of a printed ticket and a control for controlling feeding of unprinted tickets to a printing mechanism for printing tickets, having a pathway through which printed tickets ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324237 | Image recording apparatus correcting the image recording position based on the detected result of the recording material This invention relates to an image recording apparatus provided with a transporting unit transporting an image recording material whose shape has at a least one side in a predetermined transporting direction; an image recording position detecting unit detecting a po... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319842 | Pivotal sheet conveying apparatus for skew correction and image forming apparatus To provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of enhancing an accuracy of correcting a skew of a sheet, and of preventing position shift of a sheet. The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet by a sheet conveying unit disposed ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315701 | Systems and methods for reducing transfer deletions in an electrostatographic printer An apparatus is provided for reducing transfer deletions in an electrostatographic machine. The apparatus includes a registration controller for driving a print substrate at a registration velocity and feeding the print substrate to an image-retentive member. The ap... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308227 | Paper arranging apparatus and electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the same Provided are a paper arranging apparatus and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The paper arranging apparatus of an electrographic image forming apparatus has a driving roller and an idle roller facing closely to each other and forming a nip therebetwee... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300047 | Multi-layer sheet feeder A sheet feed mechanism having a multi-layer structure. The multi-layer structure has a wear layer adapted to contact a sheet during sheet feeding and a replacement indicator layer adjacent the wear layer. The replacement indicator layer is adapted to indicate a wear... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300054 | Sheet conveying apparatus, image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet along a sheet path, has a skew detecting unit for detecting the skew of the sheet being conveyed, a skew correcting unit rotatable in a direction to correct the skew of the sheet in a state nipping the sheet in its s... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292820 | Integrated media input tray including electronics A removable media tray for an image forming apparatus includes a housing, an exit port in the housing, a primary media stack, and a multi-purpose tray (MPT) input. Within the tray are first and second pick mechanisms operative to select a media sheet from the primar... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7284918 | Recording method, computer-readable medium, and recording apparatus A recording method, for example, which allows a recording medium to be carried with high carrying precision is to be achieved. A recording method includes a step of changing a carry command value, when carrying a recording medium, according to a state of bending of ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283759 | Image forming apparatus with heating member control in accordance with type of recording material An image forming apparatus of the present invention has an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material; a heating member heating the image formed on the recording material in a nip portion; an endless belt conveying the recording material towar... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280777 | Image forming apparatus with fixing control based on recording material type An image forming apparatus has an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material; a heating member heating the image formed on the recording material in a nip portion; an endless belt conveying the recording material toward the nip portion formed ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275636 | Transport roller suspension A transport roller suspension mechanism for supporting at least one transport roller of a sample transport mechanism for introducing a substantially planar sample carrier to a chemical analysis device, the transport roller mechanism comprising: a suspension block ar... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277669 | Systems and methods for simplex and duplex image on paper registration Systems and methods of registering a sheet in an image reproduction, e.g., a xerographic, device use sheet parameters regardless of the tray or bin with which the sheets are associated, separate tallies of sheet registration correction factors for both sides of a sh... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274901 | Method and arrangement for generating positionally accurate print images on a carrier material The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for generating positionally-accurate print images on a carrier material with the aid of an electrophotographic printer or copier. A positioning error of the position of the carrier material with respect to a toner... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272334 | Image on paper registration alignment A method is provided for aligning images on media produced by one or more print engines in an integrated print system. The method includes printing a first pattern of first symbols on a first region of a print medium with a first print engine and printing a second p... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260334 | Method for controlling a printer or copier using a toner mark band and reflex sensor working according to the triangulation principle A method and device controls a printer or copier to generate a plurality of marks that are assembled into a coherent marking band that is then inked by the toner. A sensor measures the marking band. The printer or copier are controlled based on the output of the sen... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257340 | Image forming apparatus featuring a controller for switching a first transfer bias to a second smaller transfer bias while the print material is passing through a transfer nip portion To prevent jamming with small-sized print materials without disturbing an image located at a trailing end of a print material, an image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum that carries a toner image, a transfer device which can apply a transfer bias to ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252445 | Apparatus and method for forming images The present invention provides an image forming apparatus for forming an image on printing paper by rolling up the printing paper around a cylindrical or column-shaped member without any fixture, that can measure with a high accuracy the length of the printing paper... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7221897 | Plastic sheet manufacturing method and plastic sheet manufacturing apparatus A method for plastic sheet manufacturing whereby a layered body including a film is made to pass through a nip portion formed by a pair of belts, each having a joint portion, causing the layered body to be integrated to manufacture a plastic sheet. Before integratio... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210682 | Sheet distributor, image recorder, and a sheet distributing method The invention provides a sheet distributor and a sheet distributing method. The sheet distributor with which supplied sheets of a specified length are distributed to a plurality of lines of sheets, has a transport unit which keeps transporting each supplied sheet in... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212780 | Process and device for supplying substrates in a printing unit Preparing substrates for one-sided or two-sided printing in an electrophotograpically operated digital printing apparatus, in which process substrates are fed out of a supply unit or several supply units onto a conveyor operation sequence and are transferred, prefer... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202968 | Print layout apparatus and method This invention relates to a technique that prevents an image from falling outside a given range when a printer is controlled to form an image on an arbitrary medium while assuring a margin of a predetermined amount. A host computer shifts an image by only a partial ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195238 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet using a sheet conveying unit arranged along a sheet conveying path has a skew detecting unit for detecting skew of the sheet conveyed along the sheet conveying path with respect to a sheet conveying direction, a skew... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184700 | Method of determining color register and/or register errors in a printing machine Color register and/or register errors are detected in a printing machine by using triangles serving as register marks. A first triangle is printed onto a sheet near the leading edge and a second triangle is printed onto a sheet near its trailing edge. The first tria... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177586 | Apparatus and method of forming image using rotary developer A CPU drives a transportation system driving motor and turns on a paper feed clutch after an exposure unit starts forming an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive member of a photosensitive member unit, whereby a paper feed roller is driven into rotations a... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177585 | Image forming apparatus and method An image forming apparatus registers both sides of sheets with great precision in a sheet transportation direction in both-side image formation. The image forming apparatus includes: photoconductive drums holding toner images; an intermediate transfer belt temporari... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171146 | Image forming apparatus including a belt-shaped image carrier An image forming apparatus which includes an image carrier holding toner images of plural colors, and a transfer portion that transfers the toner images of plural of colors held on the image carrier onto a recording medium, wherein the image carrier is made of an el... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167673 | Method and apparatus for using continuous media stock in a cut-sheet image forming device A device and method for applying images to continuous media stock, such as rolls of paper, blank labels, etc., using a cut-sheet image forming device. While the continuous media stock moves along a media path in the cut-sheet image forming device, one or more sensor... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167664 | Image forming apparatus where image write-to-transfer time is set integer times of a rotation period of idler pulley An image forming apparatus, includes a plurality of image bearing members, respectively provided with image bearing member pulleys coaxially for rotating in one body with the corresponding image bearing members; an idler pulley, disposed between the image bearing me... | 01/23/2007 |
