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5033367 Indexing machine  
Disclosed is a machine for advancing bakery pans in a step wise fashion along a production line. A rotary indexer having three radially extending arms mounted on a common shaft and spaced apart...
5031520 Cutting and forming device for an apparatus for making buns  
A cutting and forming device for an apparatus for making buns has a base plate, a rotary annular disc and of die pieces combined under the rotary annular disc and on the base plate such that they...
5020426 Food product cooker  
A food product cooker having a main frame with a loading path and a discharge path, a cooking oil pan, a plurality of product carriages, and a main drive endless chain for moving the carriages...
5016528 Baking apparatus  
A baking apparatus includes cover molds and pan molds having recesses adapted to be engaged to define baking chamber as the cover and pan molds engage, a device for feeding dough into the recesses...
5010805 Potato chip maker including apparatus for centrifugally removing cooking oil from any product  
A potato chip maker comprises a heated container having a cover. The container encloses a two-piece basket including a separately supported bottom wall and a side wall. Both walls are suspended...
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...
4996915 Apparatus for producing a dough roll  
An apparatus for producing a dough roll is provided, in which a dough piece is held between the conveying path of a conveyor and the parallel and spaced-apart projections extending along the...
4989505 Apparatus 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...
4984514 Extruder apparatus for producing an at least partially baked product having a cookie-like crumb structure including a post extrusion microwave device  
An extruder operating to continuously mix, at least partially bake and extrude a preselected formulation of ingredients to provide an at least partially baked output product which, upon final...
4979438 Apparatus for grinding and precooking grain  
An apparatus for grinding and precooking grain includes a housing that contains grinding disks, a hopper for input of the grain, a worm screw, and an output tube for the flour, wherein the housing...
4979435 Apparatus for automatically processing, cooking and selling noodles  
The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically processing, cooking and selling noodles, which is applied to so-called boiled and cooked noodles, such as "wheat vermicelli",...
4973240 Multiple die pastry crust press and crust pan handling arrangement  
A hydraulic press for simultaneously forming a plurality of pastry crusts under pressure in individual pans. The pans are loaded into a carrier tray, each pan is filled with a pre-portioned...
RE33433 Lasagna product  
In a machine for preparing precooked lasagna. A mixer for combining ingredients necessary for the preparation of pasta and an extruder for forming at least two uncooked strips of pasta. After...
4961697 Dough piece bending device  
A device for bending an elongated dough product includes a first endless conveyor for conveying the products along a conveyance path. The first conveyor includes a plurality of spaced apart...
4960043 Extruder and continuous mixer arrangement for producing an at least partially baked product having a cookie-like crumb structure  
An extruder and continuous mixing apparatus operating to continuously mix, at least partially bake and extrude a preselected formulation of ingredients to provide an at least partially baked output...
4958556 Filled cracker making apparatus  
Baked goods and in particular hard biscuits and crackers which are hollow and which are adapted to contain a filling are inverted subsequent to baking so that the biscuit or cracker can have a...
4945825 Indexing machine for baking pans  
Disclosed is a machine for moving bakery pans in a stepwise fashion to enable rows of cups in the pans to be filled with dough packets. The rows of cups are spaced apart a predetermined distance...
4940866 An installation for the shaping of a continuous food product while it is hardening  
A system for shaping a food product which is initially in the liquid state, such as fresh liquid egg white or yolk, while it is hardening, in which the liquid product is fed to a continuously...
4938126 Tortilla press apparatus  
This invention relates to apparatus and methods for producing formed articles such as tortillas. Embodiments include apparatus comprising a non-sticking, heat tolerant, endless conveyor belt moving...
4936200 Preparation of individual articles from particulate material  
An endless conveyor transporting a plurality of juxtaposed shaping plates containing apertures therethrough is positioned such that a lower horizontal run of the shaping plates is positioned above...
4905583 Apparatus and method for rolling croissant dough pieces  
An apparatus and method for rolling croissant dough pieces are provided. Dough pieces are fed between a pair of rollers with the surface of at least one roller being adhesive to the dough piece and...
4905581 Doughball press control  
A doughball processing apparatus having cooperating press plates includes workpiece sensing means for determining the presence or absence of a workpiece on a conveyor belt for delivery to the...
4899650 Machine for layering sheets of food material  
A machine and method for layering sheets of food material has a conveyor belt for conveying a plurality of sheets of flexible food material lying flat and parallel to one another on the conveyor...
4875847 Twin-screw extruder having respective conical nose screw sections  
A twin screw extruder which significantly reduces extruder wear through provision of separate, complemental, interfitted frustoconical screw and barrel sections adjacent the outlet end of the...
4869164 Tofu making apparatus  
A tofu making apparatus according to the present invention is designed for small business or for domestic use. The tofu making apparatus can automatically and consecutively produce uniform tofu in...
4867049 Food product precooking method and apparatus  
A potato chip production line has an improved precooking apparatus which includes an elongated sluice having a moving stream of heated precooking liquid of a temperature within a desired range of...
4862790 Egg cooking apparatus  
An automatic egg product cooking apparatus that fills three-piece molds with a uniform amount of egg material. The molds undergo slow, low temperature cooking and the cooked egg product is...
4862793 Apparatus for preparing scrambled eggs  
An apparatus to facilitate producing scrambled eggs on a heated grill surface comprises a frame. At least one egg ring having a lower edge portion is adapted to be disposed in intimate contact with...
4859165 Extruder for food  
An extruder for food, having; a rotary cylinder fitted to a tip of an extrusion nozzle for extruding a food material; at least one feed opening formed in the outer periphery of the rotary cylinder,...
4854226 Continuous processing machines for baking buns  
This invention relates to a continuous processing baking machine, more particularly to a continuous processing machine for baking buns. It includes a conveyer endlessly conveying a plurality of...
4838153 Method and apparatus for forming and baking flat, thin discs of dough  
A combination pressing and initial baking system is provided for converting balls of dough into thin, flat discs, such as tortillas. A box-like support structure is provided having a portion of its...
4815959 Apparatus for dispensing dough  
A housing for receiving a working amount of dough, a shaft mounted on a central axis within the housing, a first wall, curved on a radius from the central axis and having a plurality of apertures...
4807524 Method and apparatus for producing a food product  
This disclosure relates to apparatus and method for the production of fish-paste food products having the appearance of shelled shrimp, crab claws, lobster, abalone, etc. The apparatus comprises a...
4779523 Apparatus for producing soybean flakes  
An apparatus for producing soybean flakes by cooking raw soybeans and squashing the cooked soybeans into flakes. Saturated steam from a boiler is passed through a superheater to form superheated...
4776266 Apparatus for producing cheese straws  
An apparatus and process for producing cheese straws and the like is disclosed, the apparatus including a mixing and extruding device from which the mixed dough is forced through a die having a...
4762057 Automatic bread producing machine  
A controlling apparatus controls a series of processes such as a kneading process, a fermenting process, a breathing process and a baking process of material within a bread baking mold based on the...
4760775 Method and apparatus for handling shaped food product  
An apparatus for handling shaped food products such as a taco shell at the end of a cooking zone of a cooking apparatus includes a guide ramp for controlling the movement and orientation of the...
4754699 Enchilada shell cooker  
A food product cooker having a main frame, a cooking oil pan, a plurality of product carriages, and a main drive endless chain for moving the carriages about the main frame to and from the cooking...
4751876 Method and apparatus for baking thin dough discs  
A baking oven embodying the method of this invention comprises a plurality of vertically stacked, vertically spaced heated baking plates. Every other one of the baking plates is periodically...
4750413 Apparatus for centering and shaping dough pieces baked products or the like  
The invention relates to an apparatus for centering and shaping dough pieces baked products or the like which is inserted between two treatment machines in a commercial baking line for the...
4741263 Apparatus and method for producing croissants  
An apparatus and method for producing croissant dough rolls is provided. Dough pieces are fed between two endless belt devices in which the belts move in opposite directions, and rolled up. Means...
4733608 Machine for making crepes  
A machine for manufacturing cooked foodstuffs such as crepes comprises an upwardly directed rotatable concave hot plate (31) which is slightly inclined. A radially disposed pouring tube (38) is...
4724755 Apparatus for forming and baking flat, thin discs of dough  
A combination pressing and baking mechanism is provided for converting balls of dough into thin, flat discs, such as tortillas. The pressing unit comprises a pair of relatively pivotally movable...
4711166 Automatic machine for making stone fruit biscuit  
An automatic machine for making stone fruit biscuit in seven consequent steps to make stone fruit biscuit, that is, material reserving, material restoring, planing, sucking, moulding, baking and...
4706556 Potato chip manufacturing machine  
A potato chip manufacturing machine comprising a frame, an elongated oil cooking kettle mounted on the frame, and an oil circulation circuit connected to the oil for causing flow of cooking oil in...
4690043 Pizza dough spreading apparatus  
Apparatus for centrifugally spreading a body of dough to form a generally circular soft pizza crust. The apparatus minimizes the likelihood that dough in the central portion of the crust will tear...
4683813 Synchronized press for bakery products  
A synchronized press and method for forming bakery products. A press plate presses a portion of bakery product ingredients against a rotatable disc in a continuous motion. A conveyor belt deposits...
4674401 Process and plant producing hard tacks and dry biscuits  
The process comprises in combination the steps of: the kneading of the ingredients mostly based on flour, lard, olive-oil or anyhow vegetable oil, sugar, salt, leaven and water; a first rolling of...
4668524 Dough ball conveyor loader apparatus and method  
A dough ball conveyor loader apparatus includes a flat conveyor belt supported horizontally and a loading unit positioned above the belt. The loading unit positions each of a series of dough balls...
4664025 Tortilla maker  
A tortilla maker includes a frame which comprises a base (10), and two vertical spine members (32,34) which are secured to the rear edge of the base (10) and extend upwardly therefrom. A lower...