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5392698 Conveyor belt for carrying uncooked product slices through a cooking operation  
A method and apparatus for preparing essentially fat free chips such as potato chips and the like having an appearance and taste similar to conventional chips without the use of deep fat frying...
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...
5386762 Robotic chef  
An automated food preparation system having a continuously rotatable annular segmented cooking area, a food feeding system, and an industrial robot, all of which are controlled by a pre-programmed...
5365835 Hamburger fixing apparatus  
A hamburger fixing apparatus has a food material feeding line conveyor. Various kinds of sandwiches or hamburgers, as indicated on an order display board, are prepared by an automatic feeding...
5353695 Self-expanding gasket  
A self-sealing door for a steam cooker using a self-expanding resilient tubular gasket to form a seal between the inner side of the door and the sidewall of the cooker. Access to the cooking...
5341729 Discharge for rotating drum blanchers and coolers  
A discharge chute extends between an auger and the discharge end plate of a perforated cylinder which rotates within a water-filled tank in a food processing apparatus such as a blancher or a...
RE34671 Continuous cooking grill  
A continuous cooking grill is provided which includes a heating element for supplying radiant heat to food items passing tberebetween along a conveyor which is preferably provided with a series of...
5329842 Combination blancher and cooler  
A water tank is divided into a heated compartment and a cooled compartment by an insulated baffle. A perforated cylinder is mounted within the tank and has a first segment which extends within the...
RE34646 Apparatus for controlling pre-cooking and machine peeling shrimp  
Apparatus for more efficiently pre-cooking and peeling cold water shrimp such as the species Pandalus borealis is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor for moving the shell-on or unpeeled...
5322007 Compact, high-capacity oven  
An oven with a box-like housing for efficient use of plant floor space encases a spiral food product carrying conveyor. A process vapor is circulated within the housing by "plug fans" with the...
5320210 Conveying and storage systems  
A product-carrying tray 1 has longitudinally slotted end members 3 for sliding engagement on guide rails in a conveyor installation or storage unit. Transverse edges 2 of the tray are provided with...
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...
5301604 Reduced-pressure fryer machine  
A reduced-pressure fryer machine adapted to fry a food material in a food container case by immersing same in heated oil in a reduced-pressure frying vessel, the food container case being...
5289759 Forced steam bulk food cooker/blancher  
The preferred embodiment described in this application is a forced-steam cooker/blancher (100) for cooking or blanching a depth of bulk food particles by supporting the food particles on an...
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...
5277104 Pretzel oven with electronic heat control  
A pretzel oven with electronic heat control bakes a plurality of pretzel-like bakery products in a continuous baking process. The pretzel oven includes a microprocessor-based control, a solid state...
5277924 Radio frequency proofing and convection baking apparatus and method for making pizza  
Apparatus and method for making pizza in a continuous process and in commercial quantities using radio frequency energy and hot air impingement ovens in a conveyorized system.
5277105 Low profile stackable conveyor oven  
A conveyor oven module has a very low profile so that more oven modules may be stacked to give a greater baking capacity in the same "foot print" without the top conveyor being higher than the five...
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...
5265524 Apparatus for making toasted bread slices  
In an apparatus for toasting bread slices a plurality of rows of slices are disposed side by side on an endless mesh conveyor which passes through an oven. The first and last rows are spaced from...
5259302 Automatic deep fry apparatus  
A deep fry apparatus for automatically and sequentially deep frying food articles below the surface of a hot fluid and at different depths or multi-levels in the fluid. An automatic feeder...
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...
5253564 Conveyor oven control  
A control device for a multi-zone conveyor oven constructed according to the present invention comprises a microprocessor-based controller, appropriate control software, a keyboard and display for...
5249914 Food transport fixture and method  
A food transferring fixture is disclosed which can be used to transfer food items from one food preparation area to another. The fixture includes a hoop for surrounding items to be transferred and...
5248514 Curl control of shrimp during steam cooking  
Shrimp are cooked by methods and apparatus limiting the excessive amount of curl usually incurred to produce a generally J shaped configuration after cooking. Thus, the shrimp are cooked while held...
5247875 Compact vertical U-shaped pan food frying machine  
A compact food frying machine having a vertically-oriented U-shaped pan for holding a heated liquid, an endless belt for carrying food items, multiple guiding elements spaced along the length of...
5243899 Apparatus for making a pizza topping disk  
An apparatus for making a pizza toppings disk is disclosed. An apparatus, made in accordance with the present invention includes a conveyor means for transporting forming surfaces, and a plurality...
5243962 Cooking oven for slow-cooking of food products  
The invention relates to a cooking oven for mass production of food products and a method for cooking food products. The oven includes an enclosure housing which forms a cooking chamber, having an...
5239917 Oven  
An oven for heating food which includes a tray to support the food, the tray having a plurality of openings therethrough. A first heat source is spaced from and above the food. At least one plate...
5238353 Device for the input and carrying away of smoking or cooking rods for automatic suspension of a plurality of sausages  
A process and device for the input and carrying away of smoking rods or cooking rods to and from a station for the automatic suspension of sausages provided with loops on a rod which in turn is...
5231920 Conveyor oven with uniform air flow  
A conveyor oven is described which is compact and suitable for smaller commercial establishments. The device uses mutually spaced nozzles which extend across the upper and lower portion of the...
5230421 Means for storing and conveying objects, installation arrangement for the means and method for operation in a closed container  
The storage arrangement for operation in an autoclave with horizontal cylinder (60) includes a conveyor chain (10), which is moved on both sides back and forth over guide sprocket wheels. Shelves...
5228557 Chain conveyor with improved drive device  
Chain conveyor (11) with a drive device (16) comprising a toothed wheel (39) designed to engage with a chain (18) of the chain belt in a conveyor system (10) and the toothed wheel (39) is arranged...
5223290 Method for cooking food in an infra-red conveyor oven  
A conveyor oven for cooking food products using infra-red radiation is described. The oven uses upper and lower etched foil heaters which are disposed above and below the upper flight of a conveyor...
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...
5207151 Apparatus for pasteurizing and precooking pizza bases  
An apparatus for pasteurizing and precooking pizza bases includes a conveyor belt having an upstream end and a downstream end, a plurality of vitroceramic plates attached to the conveyor belt, and...
5206045 Apparatus and method for cooking food products  
Burning and other overcooking of sensitive areas of food products, e.g., a chicken's fatty thigh and back area or a pizza's crust area, is prevented in broiling, baking or otherwise cooking food...
5205208 Food product carrier for an automatic cooking machine  
A food product carrier for use in an automatic food cooking machine having opposed integral retaining wire arch members for accepting retractable pins thereby locking a pivotal wire lid to a wire...
5203256 Continuous fermenting chamber for dough products  
A continuous operation apparatus for fermenting dough products disposed on carriers which are conveyed stepwise through a fermenting chamber by vertical and horizontal conveyors. In order to obtain...
5197378 Pizza screen or pan receiving and holding assembly  
A pizza screen or pan receiving and holding assembly for use in combination with a pizza baking oven is disclosed. The assembly includes a main frame formed of side and end rails interconnected in...
5189948 Low temperature spiral conduction vapor cooker and process  
A unique spiral vapor cooker and cooking process comprises an insulated housing defining cooking chamber including a reservoir of heated water therein. Rising within the cooking chamber is a...
5184542 Drier for pasta  
A drier comprises a plurality of structurally independent drying chambers in each of which a respective climate, which does not interfere with that of the other chambers, is created and controlled....
5184538 High efficiency steam cooker  
Shrimp and other food products carried on a plastic modular conveyor belt are efficiently cooked at atmospheric pressure in the presence of saturated steam protected by a confining receptacle from...
5179890 Pasteurizing machine  
A pasteurizing machine which automatically adjusts the level of the pasteurizing water, and which comprises three water containers placed superposed to one another. The pasteurizing water is heated...
5180898 High velocity conveyor oven  
An improved conveyor oven for cooking food products more efficiently is provided. The delivery system for hot convection currents includes a lower delivery system using tapered slot nozzles which...
5179265 Cooking time control system for conveyor ovens  
A control system for processing products in conveyorized ovens. The system monitors and controls the oven temperature and monitors the velocity with which products are moved through the oven. At...
5176068 Apparatus for cooking whole chickens  
Apparatus for broiling whole chickens which have been severed along the breast bone for opening into a generally flat condition includes a housing having opposing laterally spaced sets of upright...
5165330 Fryer with a rotary spiral food conveyor  
Fryer having a closeable container which is provided, in an upward position, with a closeable opening for introducing a product to be fried. The container furthermore has a fume suction duct and,...
5161457 Hydrostatic cooker discharge  
A hydrostatic cooker discharge apparatus comprises a flight conveyor, a first belt conveyor and a second belt conveyor. The flight conveyor sequentially receives horizontally oriented sticks of...
5156873 Multiple zone shrimp precooking method and apparatus for machine peeling shrimp  
An apparatus for more effectively controlling the precooking operation by separating the precooking procedure into multiple distinct zones and controlling the temperature in each cooking zone. A...