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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7314405 | Feeder for meat pieces made of entire muscles for a piston stuffing machine Incorporates buckets (3) open on their top in which the meat pieces are loaded, moving on traction device (4) that execute a step by step motion towards the feeding area located between the piston (1) and the body of the stuffing machine (2 | 01/01/2008 |
| 7258053 | Hot dog slicer A food slicer 10 of the present invention contains a hollow body 12 having an inner wall 13 defining an interior 17 and an outer wall 15 for containment of a food product therein. A plurality of blades 32 extends across the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7195551 | Casingless food production methods, systems, and associated wrappable coverings Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) moving at least one flexible cover member having a predetermined length with primary surface and opposing lateral edge portions along a predetermined travel path; (b) in... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182683 | Casingless food production methods, systems, and associated traveling matable mold shells Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) providing a series of shells, the shells having sufficient structural rigidity to define an enclosed cavity space of predetermined substantially constant size and shape;... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7166020 | Method and apparatus for transporting sausage to a treatment room A method is for transporting one or more sausages provided with a suspension member into a treatment room. The sausages are placed in a holder in a desired position. A number of holders with the sausages therein are disposed adjacently of each other in the desired p... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7137334 | Devices, systems and methods for thawing, heating and/or glazing previously frozen baked goods or dough-based products Devices, systems and methods for thawing, heating and/or glazing previously frozen baked goods and other dough-based products, wherein the products can be thawed in an environment having a selected temperature and elevated humidity; the conveyor is configured to pre... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7040974 | Casingless food production methods, systems, and associated traveling matable mold shells Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) providing a series of shells, the shells having sufficient structural rigidity to define an enclosed cavity space of predetermined substantially constant size and shape;... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024987 | Baking assembly for battered food items A baking assembly bakes a food item prepared to be baked on a stick with a batter. The baking assembly includes a first heating element including a reservoir for receiving the batter and the food item therein. The reservoir defines a longitudinal axis. A second heat... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6561784 | Cake or bread product comprising multiple doughs apparatus for manufacturing same Provided is an apparatus for making a bread or cake product comprising two or more types of dough, wherein the dough are dispensed through a dispensing hole of a dough hopper having a dough container, and dough dispensing pistons, the method comprising su... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6227103 | Machine for forming cones A machine for making cones from baked wafers utilizes roll-up mechanism in the form of a roll-up mandrel and a roll-up form. A multiplicity of such mechanisms is carried by a chain along an endless path. Each roll-up mechanism can have a frame on which th... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6004602 | Method for bonding food particles A method for forming and baking food particles into a unified, shaped product, e.g., shaped like pizza, has heated top and bottom plates, the mating faces of which have recesses and protrusions for molding the desired shaped product. The bottom plate is i... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5795607 | Process and device for producing rolled wafer cones A process and apparatus for producing rolled wafer cones to be filled with ice-cream and frozen for storage. The process comprises pouring dough of high sugar content on an endless, heated baking surface, forming a strip of dough; baking the strip of doug... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5584232 | Portable oven There is disclosed a multi-piece portable oven having an oven body (22), a baking mold (24), and a cover (28). Oven body (22) has and upwardly extending cylindrical sidewall (34) and a substantially flat bottom (32). Baking mold (24) has an upwardly exten... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5458415 | Apparatus for making bread A process for making bread is carried out in an apparatus which includes a kneader for kneading flour, yeast and water into dough and a pump for continuously feeding the mixed dough through flexible pipe to a cutting device which forms dough pieces. The a... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5392697 | Convertible gas or electric fired donut system A convertible gas fired or electrically heated donut cooking system is disclosed for automatic cooking of donuts featuring easy conversion from a gas fired embodiment using a low voltage battery operated controlled gas fired tube to an electric unit power... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5227186 | Apparatus and method for forming lightweight edible products A doughnut making machine and apparatus has a hopper for the dough of a type which exudes gluten or other sticky substances when compressed, the hopper terminates in a lower cylinder which co-acts with the cutting surfaces on a lower cutting piston. An ex... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5100685 | Apparatus and method for forming lightweight edible products A doughnut making machine and apparatus has a hopper for the dough of a type which exudes gluten or other sticky substances when compressed, the hopper terminates in a lower cylinder which co-acts with the cutting surfaces on a lower cutting piston. An ex... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5000084 | Baking appliance A baking apparatus with a plurality of spaced-apart female molds, and a co-acting top tray provided with and equal plurality of hollow spikes adapted to extend downwardly into the female molds which produce an elongated cavity in a bread roll baked in the... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4694741 | Apparatus for making rolled wafer cones In an apparatus for making a rolled wafer cone from a baked flat wafer blank made from a sugar-containing wafer dough, the baked wafer blank is rolled to form a wafer cone in a winding mold while the wafer blank is still in a soft, deformable state after ... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4346649 | Doughnut making machine and improvements thereon A miniature size doughnut fryer has a portable hopper easily removed from the frying machine and which is automatically positioned in an aligned cutting position when installed on the machine. An improved safety cut-out device is provided for a belt drive... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4339993 | Fortune cookie machine A fortune cookie making machine includes a first rotatable assembly having a number of griddles in which the cookie blanks are passed through an oven where they are baked. Thereafter a transfer mechanism strips the cookie blanks one at a time from the gri... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4275647 | Apparatus for producing a centerfilled food product Apparatus for producing a tubular centerfilled food product having a rigid, friable baked outer shell and a core of edible filling material by a continuous, straight-through process. A semi-liquid batter having a relatively high content of mono-and/or dis... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4241649 | Apparatus for making filled food product The apparatus for making a filled tubular food product in which tubular dough pieces are extruded onto a supporting die member which maintains the internal diameter of the cavity in the dough piece fixed during raising and baking after which the cavity in... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4224863 | Donut making devices A portable device for making donuts and the like which includes a batter extruder, a cooking scroll into which the extruded batter is received, a heating element underlying the scroll for heating the cooking medium introduced therein for cooking the extru... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4189994 | Method and apparatus for use in frying doughnuts Doughnut frying apparatus has a conveyor extending lengthwise of the hot oil tank and provided with transverse flights with its upper course disposed to carry floating doughnuts from a transverse pickup zone near the infeed or rear end of the tank towards... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4175483 | Donut maker appliance with improved means for coating batter with cooking oil A donut making appliance includes upper and lower electrically heated grids movable into and out of mating engagement along first surfaces. Each of the first surfaces of the grids includes a predeterminedly placed annular recess having a central core. Upo... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4098179 | Machine for producing fried dough-enclosed sausages A machine comprising means for continuous extruding a strand of sausages surrounded by a covering of a pre-made dough, cutting the strand into portions of predetermined length, supporting cut off portions and transferring the same for frying, frying the c... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4094623 | Dough dispensing and support apparatus A dough dispensing device and support is illustrated including a rotatable molding means having axially spaced dough receiving cavities formed therein with a stationary separator therebetween to facilitate rapid dispensing of molded dough configurations. ... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4061314 | Input section of apparatus for use in the continuous production of doughnuts The input section of apparatus for use in the continuous production of dough of either one of two types has a blender into which the dry material for either type of dough is metered. First and second oil containers, a water container and a container for a... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4054086 | Home donut maker A donut maker for home use is disclosed which provides perfectly cooked and formed donuts having excellent taste and appearance characteristics notwithstanding the complete elimination of conventional deep fat frying of the donuts. The preferred device in... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4012184 | Fortune cookie machine Fortune cookie making apparatus includes a plurality of pivotally connected carriers arranged in an endless closed loop. Each of the carriers has at least one mold for receiving dough which is fed to molds in the carriers by feeding means fixedly disposed... | 03/15/1977 |
| 3983262 | Automatic fortune cookie folding method Flat circular wafers are folded into the shape characteristic of fortune cookies in a machine which includes a turntable whereon a flat wafer is located and carried to a predetermined position, a reciprocating plunger operable to press the wafer through a... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3950123 | Apparatus for making a food product Apparatus and method for forming a specialty food product, such as a fortune cookie wherein a flat, flexible cake, after being cooked, is placed on a first, flat, fixed surface and is shifted by continuously moving pins over the first surface and onto a s... | 04/13/1976 |
