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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7069841 | Steam shrimp cooker A steam cooker for cooking foodstuffs, especially shellfish such as shrimp, in a continuous cooking process in a pure saturated-steam environment at 100° C. and atmospheric pressure. The cooker comprises a cooking chamber covered by an enclosure movable between a r... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6382088 | Apparatus for the storage of dough products in a fermentation chamber Dough products are stored in a fermentation chamber on a rack system in which in each of a multiplicity of horizontal planes located one above the other, the palettes carrying the dough products are substantially contiguous and are pushed from rack to rac... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6327969 | Device for cooling and/or heating objects A device for cooling and/or heating objects, in particular edible cakes and pastries, has a cylinder into which air is blown and flows out of holes. The cylinder is associated to a spiral conveyor upon which the objects can be carried past their holes.... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6120822 | Apparatus and method of food decontamination by treatment with ozone The present invention provides a system for the decontamination of agricultural products by reacting the toxins and microorganisms, contaminating the product, with ozone. The ozone is generated on site and upon demand, thus eliminating ozone waste associa... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6095805 | Steam oven An oven includes a housing provided with a device for supplying steam into the interior of the housing, in connection with the setting of a cooking condition, such as the temperature and/or relative humidity, and also a conveyor belt which passes through ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6086833 | Process and equipment for sanitizing and packaging food using ozone Systems and processes are described for sanitizing a food product with ozone gas. The ozone gas is generated using a low pressure, low volume ozone gas generator and is delivered to a fluid injector. The fluid injector receives high pressure carrier fluid... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5970209 | Roasting apparatus Disclosed is a roasting apparatus allowing automation of a roasting process including steps of charging a raw material, roasting it, and carrying a roasted product. A carrying-in port is opened in the bottom of a quantitative tank 1 for storing a raw mate... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5960707 | Apparatus for heating articles of food by way of the dry method An apparatus (10) comprises a heating room (11) for the articles of food, heater (14) and a ventilator (16) for creating a hot air current, and further comprises a device (17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28) which can subject the heating room to a rocking movemen... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5888572 | Process for baking muffins in disposable baking tray A disposable muffin tray is used in a baking process having a baking step using a spiral oven with a water bath therein. Hot air is directed into close surface contact with the water pool and then into cross-flow relationship with the muffin trays to effe... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5692434 | Case for temporarily storing pieces of dough Case for temporarily storing pieces of dough, comprising a first continuous conveying apparatus and an identical second continuous conveying apparatus. Each transport apparatus is supported by reversing rollers at the location of which the conveying direc... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5657686 | Method and apparatus for controlling floor temperature in an oven The invention describes a method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of the floor of a cooking oven by utilizing a recirculating primary heat transfer fluid made to flow through a heat exchanger located in an oven floor. After traveling through ... | 08/19/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5275091 | Apparatus for aseptically processing a food product An apparatus for continuously aseptically processing a food product comprising delicate food chunks of fruit, vegetables or the like immersed in a liquid. The apparatus comprises a heating enclosure into which the food product and a nonsterile gas are int... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5255596 | System for processing products, in particular food A system for processing products, particularly food, has a treatment chamber (10) which is closed by a door (30, 32) in leak proof manner, so that product carriers (42) can be moved through the treatment chamber (10) by trolleys (44) suspended from a conv... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5253569 | Serpentine food processing with closed-loop recirculation A food processing system (100) includes a food processing chamber (102) for processing a food product, a serpentine conveyor (104) having a plurality of parallel flights connected at their ends by U-shaped bends, and a recirculation system for supplying a... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5214999 | Zig-zag path processing facilities A processing facility, for subjecting products to process conditions for lengths of time and having a processing chamber equipped for establishing a predetermined condition within and throughout the chamber, a pair of continuous flexible conveyor elements... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5208058 | Method for treating nuts Disclosed is a novel method of treating nuts with a compressed carbon dioxide gas so as to make them oxidation-resistant. For carrying out the method, a device is used, which can contain a compressed carbon dioxide gas and which is equipped with (i) (a) d... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5010808 | Spiral conveyor oven A bakery oven is disclosed which includes an oven enclosure having opposed end and side portions, with conveyor inlet and outlet openings formed therein. An endless center drive chain conveyor is provided which includes a first section located outside of ... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4974504 | Apparatus for the continuous processing of dead animal material, such as offal Dead animal material, such as offal, is in subsequent steps and in a continuous manner comminuted in a comminuter, pumped to a pre-heating/sterilization installation by a pump, heated to the sterilization temperature in a number of successive tubular heat... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4967651 | Apparatus for sterilization of spices and leafy herbs To avoid loss of volatile oils or cause change of color or excessive loss of moisture in raw vegetable product such as herbs or spices, the product is sterilized for human consumption by placing the product in a jacketed container where the temperature of... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4830865 | Method for aseptically processing a food product A method and apparatus are disclosed for continuously and gently aseptically processing a food product comprising delicate food chunks of fruit, vegetables or the like immersed in a liquid. The apparatus comprises a heating enclosure into which the food p... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4800809 | Equipment for continuously coagulating milk preferably pre-acidified milk for preparing yoghurt Equipment for continuously coagulating preferably preacidified milk for preparing yoghurt, provided with means for keeping the milk at a desired temperature during coagulation, with means for feeding in the milk and with means for discharging the yoghurt,... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4750416 | Air head module A gas head module for use in an apparatus to air treat food products, said module having a gas inlet and a gas outlet which are connect by a side wall defining a passage which follows a spiral path, with said passage diminishing in cross sectional area fr... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4480535 | Apparatus for air-treatment of products An apparatus for air-treatment of products includes an endless foraminous conveyor belt for the products which is adapted within the space for the air-treatment to follow at least one path extending helically in several turns, said path for the foraminous... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4246836 | Apparatus for processing particulate solids Reactors in which solids can be processed by fluid-solids contact. The reactors include a shell housing a rotatable, movable assembly or rotor for supporting a bed of solids and for displacing the solids from a first location where they are introduced int... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4154861 | Heat treatment of food products Jets of heated gaseous fluid are perpendicularly directed against the surface of a food product, moving relative to said jets, such that the jets impinge against discrete points on said surface, before fluid in the jets is diffused, to wipe away the bound... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4125063 | Continuous digester An apparatus for use in the continuous treatment of cellulosic matter to improve the digestibility thereof, comprising means for receiving finely divided cellulosic matter, acidic process chemicals, and steam; a first attrition mill wherein the steam, cel... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4023476 | Dough proofing machine In the dough proofing machine described a housing contains a conveyor extending in a tortuous path from one end to the other, a heater and steam injector positioned in the center of the housing. Transversely extending vertically disposed plenum walls are ... | 05/17/1977 |
| 3992985 | Apparatus for processing meat material with carbon dioxide Conveyor screws located in side-by-side relationship on fixed, substantially horizontal axes at the bottom of a closed vessel are adapted to be rotated to provide mixing action. Means are provided for continuously supplying the vessel with meat material a... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3986446 | Dough proofing apparatus A dough proofing apparatus is for use in association with a dough forming apparatus having a dough piece receiving means which receives preformed dough pieces from a dough dividing machine and directs them toward a toroid forming apparatus wherein the pro... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3972277 | Defrosting apparatus A defrosting apparatus for frozen food comprises a casing defining a chamber and a tray circulating system to circulate the trays, which are removably mounted thereon, along a fixed path in the casing while each of the trays always retains a horizontal po... | 08/03/1976 |
