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4366177 Method of flameless broiling or baking greasy meat products  
A method of flameless broiling or baking in a tunnel oven of greasy meat products, which method comprises the steps of heating the interior tunnel surfaces of the tunnel oven to provide for cooking...
4363955 Post-baking or heating tunnel-type oven, in particular for food products  
The invention relates to an oven for heating or post-baking various products, in particular bakery bread. The oven comprises a chamber open at both its ends, through which passes a conveyor...
4363263 Efficient high humidity food processing system with sanitizing improvements  
Food products such as produce, fish, meat, and poultry are rapidly cooked and chilled in separate units through which a continuously running conveyor belt passes in a spiral pathway to converse...
4358993 Apparatus for thermally treating a layer of material  
In an apparatus for treating a layer of material, particularly in a number of successive thermal treatment phases with different treatment temperatures and durations, for carrying out at least two...
4349086 Circulating food display system  
A circulating food display system, used in a restaurant for the exhibition of food in a circulatory manner has a food display case and a crescent chain. The food display case is disposed on the...
4338911 Cooking apparatus  
Directed jets of temperature controlled gaseous fluids are applied to irregularly shaped products, such as food portions, to subject discrete areas of the surface to a very high heat transfer rate...
4332189 Apparatus for preparation of foodstuffs, particularly sausages and buns  
An apparatus and method for preparing foodstuffs, and particularly sausages and buns such as hot dogs. A reservoir containing heated water is provided and sausages are immersed in and moved through...
D264200 Conveyor segment  
4325295 Apparatus for preparing french fried potatoes  
A process for preparing french fried potatoes for freezing and subsequent finish frying to resemble closely french fried potatoes prepared directly from fresh potatoes, in which after completion of...
4321858 Crepe maker  
An apparatus for preparing a food product having at least a cooked batter outer shell and a filling material contained therein. The apparatus is comprised of an conventionally controlled,...
4309938 Smoker device  
A smoker device including a smoke chamber, a smoke generator mounted to the bottom of the chamber, and a plurality of conveyors positioned to move food through the smoke chamber in an alternating...
4297942 Method and apparatus for flavoring and surface treatment of meat products  
A continuous process for imparting a charcoal-broiled flavor and appearance to meat products, moves the product into impingement with open gas flames to sear the product's surfaces and to brand the...
4289064 Automated cooker  
An automated cooker for sandwiches and the like. The automated cooker includes a pair of heating elements spaced one from the other so as to provide passage therebetween. A motor drives a conveyor...
4281594 Bun section toaster  
A bun section toaster, in the usual case, has a frame supporting several parallel chain conveyors, each conveyor being effective to advance a related bun section through the frame in physical and...
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...
4276465 Electric oven for the continuous baking of pizzas  
An electric oven for the continuous baking of pizzas has a baking chamber with a single front opening through which pizzas positioned in baking tins are loaded and from which baked pizzas are...
4274331 Wafer baking machine  
A machine for baking thin wafers of the type which are foldable to form fortune cookies includes an oven, a parallel chain conveyor that moves continuously in a plurality of horizontal runs through...
4262586 Baking apparatus  
An economical, energy-saving apparatus for baking food products such as pretzels and the like includes an enclosed housing with an inlet for the introduction of the product to be baked and a door...
4254697 Broiler with a patty feed  
A broiler especially for hamburger patties has an endless conveyor arranged on a frame with the horizontal upper run of the conveyor subjected to the usual supply of heat from above. A stack of...
4254696 Apparatus for frying instant noodles  
Apparatus for frying instant noodles wherein a portion of steamed noodle to be fried is contained in a receptacle with a telescoping lid, the receptacle and the lid being mounted on the first and...
4252055 Tunnel-chamber baking oven  
A baking oven includes a thermally insulated casing that defines a tunnel-chamber through which an endless conveyor belt extends. The reversing elements at the end of the conveyor belt are...
4250802 Apparatus for converting grain into dough  
This invention relates to methods and apparatus for processing grain, such as corn, into flour and dough useful in making foodstuff products, such as tacos, tortillas, corn chips, etc. In one...
4245613 Tunnel oven  
A tunnel oven includes a framework forming an elongated cooking tunnel with an entrance at one end for ingress of products to be heated in the tunnel during traverse through the tunnel and an exit...
4246462 Microwave tunnel oven for the continuous processing of food products  
A modular microwave tunnel oven with multiple microwave sources and controlled atmosphere for the continuous processing of food products has a cruciform shaped conductive cavity of extended length...
4244284 Meat cooking apparatus  
Cooking apparatus for preparing meats to suit individual tastes of different consumers. The meat is subjected to electric current heating to cook the meat and to radiant broiling to char its...
4244285 Oven  
An oven for cooking and heating foodstuffs comprising an elongated, substantially rectangular, heat insulated housing having an entrance end, an exit end, first and second sides, a top and bottom....
4241648 Apparatus for shaping and precooking of tortillas  
Apparatus for processing compressible, heat settable material, and in one embodiment, useful in producing foodstuffs including so-called tortillas made from wheat flour, comprises a step-motion,...
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...
4234612 Continuous frying method  
A frying method in which hot oil is discharged upward from nozzles at the bottom of a frying tank at high pressure while a perforated container holding tightly packed noodles is conveyed in a...
4232779 Infeed assembly and a discharge assembly for a conveyor system  
The infeed and discharge assemblies are mechanically actuated by movement of the hook assemblies on the endless chains of the horizontal conveyor in order to sequentially direct the flexible...
4231470 Conveyor system  
A conveyor system of the type which may be utilized with an apparatus comprising a plurality of treatment areas such as an oven system containing a proofer for conditioning dough and a baking oven...
4213380 Cooking machine  
A cooking machine for making hamburgers which includes a pair of aligned ovens and a conveyor adapted to travel separate spaced hamburger patties over the top of the oven, a dispenser is provided...
4207810 Cup and cover turnover mechanism for English muffin griddles  
A cup and cover turnover mechanism for muffin grilling griddles having a cup flight which straddle mounts spaced roller chains of a cover and hearth flight, wherein the conveying chains of each of...
4204466 Plant for the automatic production of Arabic flat bread  
A plant for the automatic production of Arabic flat bread is provided. It consists basically of a sequence of devices or arrangements for performing the following functions: dough portioning, dough...
4204006 Method of thermally treating unpackaged food products  
The invention concerns a method for heat treatment of unpackaged food products by means of a fluid, especially a liquid, which has a temperature different from that of the unpackaged products and...
4197792 Apparatus for molding and precooking corn and wheat tortillas  
Apparatus for forming and precooking corn and wheat tortillas and similar products under steam and pressure, simultaneously on both faces and internally, by the insertion of a portion of moldable...
4197793 Taco shell manufacturing equipment using a low pressure steam chamber  
Taco shell manufacturing equipment that comprises in combination with suitable means to form and bake disk tortillas, certain means to equilibrate moisture throughout such baked tortillas in a...
4195559 Apparatus and method for the preparation of a food product  
An apparatus and method for the automatic, rapid and continuous preparation of generally friable or fragile ready-to-eat food product bacon analog strips of predetermined configuration, simulating...
4188866 Patty broiler  
A patty broiler has a frame on which an openwork patty conveyor is arranged around pulleys to have an upper run and a lower run. Heaters are arranged on the frame above and below the upper run, and...
4187771 Frying apparatus  
A frying apparatus for food products is described which includes a fat holding tank, a transfer conveyor within the tank extending from one end to the other for transporting food products through...
4184418 Apparatus for preparing taco shells  
An improved apparatus for preparing taco shells from uncooked tortillas comprising a vessel having shaped side walls for containing cooking oil, a conveyor assembly including a deformable endless...
4182230 Apparatus for frying noodles  
A method of frying noodles which comprises filling raw noodles in a frying vessel whose volume has been temporarily enlarged by being fitted with a frame; closing the opening of the frame by a cap...
4181215 Gravity type carrier mechanism  
Gravity type carrier mechanism for baking pans and the like comprising a chain conveyor system and stationary and rotary cams suitable to produce one hundred and eighty degree pan turnover. The...
4179985 Sandwich cooking and assembling unit  
A cooking and assembly unit is primarily for use in the quantity production of sandwiches, such as hamburger sandwiches including a patty, a bun crown and a bun heel. The unit includes a storage...
4176589 Cooking apparatus  
A cooking apparatus in which an endless conveyor moving through a heated cooking zone along a closed path of travel having upper and lower runs is cleaned by engagement with a guide which directs...
4171739 Conveyor for conveying materials through various processes  
A conveyor for conveying a series of successive buckets along a path from a charging hopper through various processes to a receiving hopper, which comprises a pair of chain links holding the...
4167585 Method for heating and cooking foods in a closed treatment chamber by maintaining the temperature and moisture content  
The cooking process comprises the steps of providing a food treatment chamber equipped with a vapor pervious conveyor; preparing a moving stream of a process vapor at a temperature having a lower...
4165620 Self-service cooling cabinet  
A self-service low temperature cooling cabinet for easily spoilable food and/or edible products, especially ice cream, with an easily accessible front withdrawing opening and two cooling units or...
4164591 Method of heating a food article  
A method of heating a food article of the layered type having a crust and a topping of a higher specific heat than the crust, an example of which is a pizza, has the steps of placing the food while...
4156383 Dual-rotating mechanism for ovens  
An oven having dual-rotating mechanism whereby food-holding elements are arranged to be conveyed about the periphery of the inner housing of the oven, at which time the food-holding elements are...