Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8061267 | Apparatus for roasting skewered food The present invention provides an apparatus for roasting skewered food in which a raw material of skewered food can easily be set on a skewer holder, so that a skewered roasted food can be cooked easily and quickly, and the skewer holder can easily be dismounted wit... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7934448 | Kebab machine A kebab machine (10) is disclosed for inserting sticks (12) into various food components (14a-f), such as meat, vegetables and the like, automatically. The food components are held within carriers (16) while the individual s... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7350458 | Hanging roaster A hanging roaster combines a “drip” pan, two pan-supports for suspending the pan from a rack (typically the top rack) in an oven, and at least two skewer-supports for supporting a food-carrying skewer spaced above the pan bottom and below the top rack of the ove... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7325486 | Food processing apparatus and method A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial to parallel loading station delivery system is provided. The food pr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7304275 | Cooking apparatus, cooking system, and cooking control method utilizing bar code A cooking apparatus, cooking system, and cooking control method using a bar code, in which automatic cooking of food is performed when the bar code attached to a package of the food is lost or damaged. The cooking apparatus for cooking food using cooking data includ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7069842 | Barbecue grill having rotatable tools A barbecue grill device includes a container and a housing disposed on a base, a platter attached to the housing for supporting a heat source, a shaft rotatably attached to the container, and a motor driving member for driving the shaft to rotate relative to the con... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7044050 | Indoor barbecue system A barbecue system includes a housing including a plurality of monolithically formed side walls sized and shaped for defining a cooking cavity therebetween. The housing further includes a plurality of rigid support legs attached to a bottom one of the side walls. The... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7036426 | Rotisserie oven A rotisserie oven includes a heat source, a continuous conveyor mounted adjacent the heat source, a number of attachment devices affixed along the conveyor, each for holding a food-supporting device adjacent the heat source while being conveyed by the conveyor. A tu... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7007593 | Barbecue rack with movable and swivelable spit holders A barbecue rack with movable and swivelable spit holders comprising a hollow rack body in which a barbecue area is formed and under which a supporting base of whole set is disposed; at least one power chain in cooperation with two chain sprockets mounted at one side... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6658990 | Bushing construction for a fluid injection machine in a food processing system A multiple-use injection machine of the type used in food processing, is especially suited for selectively injecting treatment media into meat products including, inter alia, beef, pork, whole chickens and chicken parts. The treatment media is chose from ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6595119 | Rotisserie oven A Rotisserie Oven includes a heat source and a continuous conveyor mounted adjacent to the heat source. A number of skewer holding devices are affixed along the conveyor and each hold a skewer adjacent the heat source while being convey past the heat sour... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6526877 | Staged rotisserie A frame having a first end and a second end and a plurality of discrete heating stations spaced along the frame between the first end and the second end. A plurality of spits are moved along the frame, each spit supporting a meat product thereon. An advan... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6386095 | Skewers mounted on an oven conveyor belt Multiple belt drives spaced apart transversely are engaged to multiple longitudinally spaced apart transversely mounted guide bars. The guide bars are juxtaposed to multiple parallel fixed longitudinally mounted spaced apart travel grooves. Skewers contai... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6279465 | Carousel grille with rotating tines A carousel-like grille assembly which surrounds an oven. The carousel assembly carries tines which extend over the oven. The carousel assembly moves circumferentially around the oven while at the same time the tines rotate about their longitudinal axes. T... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6202545 | Staged Rotisserie A staged rotisserie for cooking poultry includes a housing having an inlet end and an outlet end and a plurality of discrete heating stations spaced within the housing between the inlet end and the outlet end. A plurality of poultry spits are moved throug... | 03/20/2001 |
| 5974956 | Staged rotisserie A staged rotisserie for cooking poultry includes a housing having an inlet end and an outlet end and a plurality of discrete heating stations spaced within the housing between the inlet end and the outlet end. A plurality of poultry spits are moved throug... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5709142 | Cooking oven and method A cooking oven and method of cooking vertically arrayed food carrying skewers movably attached and carried in a horizontal endless travel path by conveyor means to encircle a heating element array within a single open cooking oven chamber so as to constan... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5490451 | Food carrying skewer A cooking oven and method of cooking vertically arrayed food carrying skewers movably attached and carried in a horizontal endless travel path by conveyor means to encircle a heating element array within a single open cooking oven chamber so as to constan... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5460080 | Mobile rotisserie for mass cooking of edible vertebrate products A mobile rotisserie for mass cooking of edible vertebrate products, characterized by a wheel-mounted, open pit wherein a spit conveyor travels from end to end and plural spits engage the conveyor, the spits being rapidly rotated simultaneously as they tra... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5377582 | Cooking oven and method A cooking oven and method of cooking vertically arrayed food carrying skewers movably attached and carried in a horizontal endless travel path by conveyor means to encircle a heating element array within a single open cooking oven chamber so as to constan... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5271316 | Apparatus for cooking food A cooking device which comprises a housing member having open entrance and exit ends, horizontally directed heating elements within the housing define a path for movement of food products, and a cooking area therebetween, a transport mechanism for moving ... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5030809 | Vertical oven A conveyorized oven is disclosed for heating products as they traverse vertically within the oven. The oven comprises an oven housing, duct assembly and a conveyor assembly. The oven housing has a first open end for receiving the duct assembly and conveyo... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5006355 | Apparatus and method for cooking food products, specially for broiling whole chickens and other meats Apparatus and method for broiling whole chickens which have been severe along the breast bone for opening into a generally flat condition includes a housing having opposing laterally spaced sets of upright gas-fueled infrared heaters defining therebetween... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4842181 | Apparatus for loading food for alignment with food sticks An apparatus for loading food for alignment with food sticks is provided. A food bin stores the food to be processed. The bin is filled with food which is gravity fed into J-shaped sections of a food conveyor belt. Concurrently, a stick conveyor system ca... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4590848 | Cooker A cooker for cooking food such as bar-b-que or the like. The cooker has a cooking tower with a rotating carrousel therein and various means for holding the food as it is being cooked. There is a heat source offset from beneath the cooking tower and positi... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4539900 | Apparatus for heating food products Food products, for example, hamburger patties, are more rapidly cooked than with existing system and with reduced shrinkage. A cooking appliance is provided having a plurality of parallel spaced heat transfer fins. An array of projecting cooking grills on... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4446775 | Apparatus for heating food products Food products, for example, hamburger patties, are more rapidly cooked than with existing system and with reduced shrinkage. A cooking appliance is provided having a plurality of parallel spaced heat transfer fins. An array of projecting cooking grills on... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4440071 | Conveyor system for skewered foods The invention comprises an endless conveyor system having particular application in an apparatus of the type wherein raw foods are conveyed past a cooking element and subsequently dispensed as a cooked product. The conveyor system comprises endless convey... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4430930 | Coated food fryer A machine for preparing and cooking corn dogs which are batter coated weiners upon a stick has a fry tank and coating bin mounted on a frame. Food articles are impaled by sticks driven through clasps in holes in a stick clamp. The food articles are dipped... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4401018 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus for roasting, broiling or smoking meat or other food by hanging the item over a source of heat in a manner that the meat and the like is constantly moved to accomplish rapid and flavorful cooking. The food is carried by a series of rem... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4379795 | Method for coating a food product on a stick A process for preparing and cooking corn dogs which are batter coated weiners upon a stick has a fry tank and coating bin mounted on a frame. Food articles are impaled by sticks driven through clasps in slots in a stick clamp. The food articles are dipped... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4366182 | Method and installation for roasting and grilling skin-covered meat product, such as poultry and particularly chicken A skin-covered meat product, such as poultry and especially chickens, is roasted and grilled in a cassette-oven installation with a roasting oven, a spray box and a grilling oven. First the skin of the chicken is perforated by injection needles and simult... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4270660 | Taco holders A holder for supporting comestible products such as tacos or the like includes an elongate, generally U-shaped carrier. The carrier is made of an opaque, plastic material susceptible of injection molding. In one embodiment, the carrier is supported atop a... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4261258 | Apparatus for heating food products Food products, for example, hamburger patties, are more rapidly cooked than with existing system and with reduced shrinkage. A cooking appliance is provided having a plurality of parallel spaced heat transfer fins. An array of projecting cooking grills on... | 04/14/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4162650 | Barbeque pit apparatus An enclosed cooking apparatus for barbequeing meat in which a fire box is provided for the burning of charcoal and logs. A pan is supported over the burning area and is filled with water which is heated into steam. The steam entrains the smoke generated d... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4034661 | Apparatus for heating and dispensing food articles Apparatus for heating and dispensing skewer-supported food articles such as hotdogs and the like, preferably along with buns therefor including a housing means having feed and discharge openings for the skewer-supported food articles and the buns, magazin... | 07/12/1977 |
