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5460081 Center-aligning apparatus for croissant dough pieces  
The present invention provides a center-aligning apparatus for fusiform bread dough pieces such as rolled-up croissant dough pieces. In this invention an upstream conveyor and a downstream conveyor...
5460506 Home pasta maker  
An improved pasta maker (20) is provided having an upper mixing chamber (130), lower extrusion chamber (132), and a communicating passageway (157) therebetween. The mixing chamber (130) is an open...
5438918 Apparatus for separating food contents  
Food contents are separated from ferrous metal cans for conversion into useful byproducts by lacerating the can bodies into strips of metal to expose their contents, advancing along a vibrating...
5435236 Pneumatic cereal rope conveying and conditioning apparatus  
An apparatus for pneumatically conveying a plurality of continuous ropes (20) of cooked cereal dough (20), e.g., from the diehead (24) of a cereal ingredients cooker extruder (22) to a cereal piece...
5417149 Pizza press with interchangeable upper mold  
A device for forming and par baking a pizza crust from a quantity of pizza dough disposed in a pizza pan. The device comprises a frame having a base portion and an upper housing portion. Releasably...
5409365 Noodle machine  
A noodle machine has a housing with an upper opening, a receptacle deposited in the housing for receiving flour and water for making dough for noodles by stirring them by rotation of a stirring...
5408922 Automatic food processor  
An automatic food processor for producing an aqueous extract of protein and oil containing seeds is disclosed. The processor includes a cooking facility as well as seed griding mill and a screened...
5404796 Apparatus for providing french fried potatoes  
A vending machine for providing french fried potatoes from dehydrated powder. Powder is metered into a cylinder of a rotatable, multi-cylinder cylinder block. Water is added when the block is...
5402715 Rolling mill for noodle making  
A rolling mill for use in a noodle making apparatus, of the type adapted for rolling a noodle sheet of a predetermined width, includes a plurality of rolling sections arranged in a set and each...
5402711 Device and method for making balls of a kneadable material  
A device and a method for making balls of a kneadable material. The device comprises a tube-shaped mould piece (1) having a first (7) and a second open end (8) and a longitudinal slit (6). A supply...
5403603 Cereal cooker control method and apparatus  
A control process and apparatus enable operation of a pressurized continuous cereal cooker and discharge auger with decreased steam utilization. An electric motor advances the cooked cereal mass...
5400698 Apparatus for molding and baking dough and batter  
A cup-shaped mold for the shaping and baking of bread, batter, cookie dough and other baking material comprises an upper cupped molding member and a lower, slightly larger, cupped molding member....
5396833 Method and apparatus for processing dough  
An apparatus and method for processing dough is provided for automatically processing a large mass of dough into a plurality of smaller, shaped dough pieces. A dough divider is used to receive the...
5388503 High speed food processing device  
A high speed food processing device wherein the device has a continuous moving belt of non-stick material for carrying the food product, and an upper and lower heat platens capable of moving with...
5375509 Dough ball preparation table  
The present invention discloses and provides a dough preparation and dividing machine capable of receiving substantially spherical, filled encrusted dough balls and forming them, with a minimum of...
5341727 Positioning mechanism  
A gas-fired, double-sided griddle apparatus for high-volume commercial cooking comprises double-sided griddles, each having a lower platen having a horizontal lower cooking surface and an upper...
5333538 Food extruder machine  
A food extruder machine includes a molding barrel having several axial holes spaced in a circumferential direction for passing a major material and a core. A die head has a fine narrow die hole...
5309824 System for forming, storing, baking and vending fresh baked food products  
A method and apparatus for mixing and forming dough into plural discrete product units on a carrier and storing the ready to bake product, and a vending method and apparatus for separating the...
5307736 Food cooking  
An apparatus for preparing, cooking, and dispensing a food product. A rehydration chamber in the apparatus combines a quantity of dehydrated food product and a quantity of heated rehydration liquid...
5289760 Combination food processor and fryer  
A food fryer and processor for solid food, such as potatoes, and having a rotatable blade and a rotatable paddle for cutting the food product into segments and ejecting the segments into an...
5286121 Automatic device for making flour strap  
An automatic device for making a flour strap comprises a mixing container communicating respectively with a flour container, a liquid container and a rolling container. The flour contained in the...
5282414 Material reserving, dispensing and planing devices for a stone fruit biscuit machine  
Material reserving, dispensing and planing devices for a stone fruit biscuit machine comprising a meterial reserving device, a material dispensing device, a material planing device and a sucking...
5272962 Method and apparatus for producing a sheet of dough  
A method and apparatus for producing a sheet of dough, wherein powdered materials, including flour, yeast, sugar, and fats and oils, for making bread, are mixed with particles of ice, such that the...
5247874 High-volume cooking  
A gas-fired, double-sided griddle apparatus for high-volume commercial cooking comprises double-sided griddles, each having a lower platen having a horizontal lower cooking surface and an upper...
5244370 Hash brown depositor  
A food depositing apparatus for depositing hash brown potato strands includes a plurality of depositing assemblies. Each of the depositing assemblies includes a plurality of outlets. A pump member...
5231919 Conveyor belt for dough ball pressing apparatus  
An improvement in a dough ball pressing apparatus in which the continuous conveyor belt is provided with metal strips at predetermined spaced locations along each edge of the conveyor belt and a...
5216945 Apparatus for preparation of a flavoring agent  
An apparatus for mixing, plasticizing, reacting and extruding ingredients combines a mixing unit for mixing powder-form ingredients and liquid ingredients into a paste-like mixture, a kneading and...
5216946 Precooked filled pasta products made by co-extrusion  
A method and apparatus for preparing quick cooking and precooked filled pasta products by preconditioning a blend of a starch material with steam and small amounts of an internal lubricant to...
5213026 Commodity dehydrating stabilizer  
An apparatus and system is disclosed for extruding commodities such as rice bran and which includes symmetrically disposed beater bar segments on the extruder rotor that will simultaneously impact...
5205206 Food production apparatus  
This invention relates to a food production apparatus which is preferably used in the preparation of foods such as fried potatoes. In the invention, powder obtained by pulverizing and drying...
5193442 Use of fluid to agitate articles  
An apparatus for dispensing and agitating objects to be treated in a liquid is described in terms of the use of the apparatus in the processing of potato chips in cooking oil. The apparatus...
5193440 Process and equipment for preparation and cooking of edible materials  
Processes and equipment for preparation and cooking of edible materials, particularly for the automatic slicing and deep frying of vegetables, especially potatoes, to form crisps. The procedure...
5170696 Food product and method and apparatus for preparing food products  
Apparatus in which a food product is cooked by being impaled on a plurality of heated grills that extend substantially therethrough. In this simplified apparatus, an operator rotates a first...
5163313 Apparatus for testing individual one piece receptacles  
Process and apparatus for the quality control of individual, one-piece receptacles, which are open at one end. The individual, one-piece receptacles are preferably aligned, in several groups, side...
5162119 Printing and forming apparatus for making printed baked goods  
The present invention provides apparatus for making printed foods such as cookies, crackers, and snacks at high production speeds on a continuous basis. The apparatus includes a rotary printer...
5146840 Automatic baking apparatus and mixbag therefore  
An automatic baking apparatus for making food products in piece form from dough-like substances which apparatus has holding means adapted to be fixed to the top and bottom edges of a flexible...
5141762 Apparatus and method for forming casingless sausage and the like  
An apparatus is provided for processing batter materials, such as food batter, including sausage batter for wieners and the like, without incorporating the use of any casing for the batter. The...
5133447 Reciprocating indexing machine for bakery pans  
Disclosed is a machine for advancing bakery pans in in step wise fashion along a production line. The machine includes an arm carrying spaced apart indexing fingers having rollers at their lower...
5118519 Casingless sausage line  
An apparatus and method are provided for processing batter materials, such as food batter, including sausage batter for wieners and the like, without incorporating the use of any casing for the...
5103717 Baking tongs for producing edible wafers from wafer dough in a wafer baking oven or an automatic wafer baking machine  
Baking tongs for producing edible wafers from wafer dough in a wafer baking oven or an automatic wafer baking machine consist of a wafer baking mold comprising baking mold parts in respective tong...
5095813 Apparatus for pressing and baking dough discs  
A pair of cooperating heating and pressing plates for converting a ball of dough into a flat baked disc, such as a tortilla, are mounted between vertical side frames of a supporting frame...
5081919 Cone-shaped apparatus for tempering boiled candy  
A candy tempering apparatus for tempering a mass of hard candy material to a desired consistency comprises an inverted, truncated cone having an open top, an open bottom, and an inner surface...
5074201 Apparatus for manufacturing tonyu and tofu  
An apparatus for manufacturing tonyu which has a cylindrical pan (17) having a larger diameter in relation to its depth, a cylindrical filter (44) fixed in the inner wall of the cylindrical pan...
5072664 Shell maker apparatus  
An apparatus is described for use in forming a flexible food item into a rigid bowl-shaped shell during submersive cooking which includes a support member and a basket with a base portion and a...
5063839 Cutting die for forming a plurality of thin uniformly bakeable edible assortments  
A cutting die includes a plurality of cutters arranged for cutting an ordered array of different size dough pieces from a sheet of dough. The dough pieces are cut from the sheet such that the array...
5060561 Machine for shaping and cooking foodstuffs  
A machine for shaping and cooking food products, especially products made with two or more or components, such as potato omelets. The machine includes a series of containers (2) for shaping and...
5060562 Rotary indexing machine  
Disclosed is a machine for manufacturing bakery products wherein a main drive motors powers feeding means for advancing rows of individual dough packets step-wise along an assembly line to a...
5054384 System for filling cooking pans with eggs  
A cooking pan filling system for an automated egg cooking process is disclosed wherein whole eggs are removed from their shells and transferred to a plurality of conveyed cooking pans intact...
5048405 Apparatus for manufacturing fibrous fish or shellfish "neriseihin" product  
An apparatus for manufacturing a fibrous fish or shellfish neriseihin product comprised mainly of a bundle of fibrous filaments, each of which includes protein or the like being linearly aligned...
5042369 Apparatus for manufacturing instant noodles  
Instant noodles which are formed in a block of a plurality of noodles having a plurality of indented portions in the longitudinal direction and separate at the indented portions into short noodles...