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5154160 Automated oven with gas-fired radiant heater assembly  
An automated conveyorized oven includes a radiant heater assembly including a plurality of gas-fired radiant heaters positioned beneath the oven conveyor. Each heater assembly includes radiant...
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...
5134926 Steaming process for short cut pasta  
A short cut pasta treatment apparatus utilizes a steamer (13) for steam treating short cut pasta products after extrusion and before handling. The steamer has a housing (14) in which pipes (23)...
5133249 Steam and air injection blancher  
A stainless steel tank has an inlet for food products such as pasta and a discharge end where the food product is discharged. A perforated cylinder is mounted to rotate within the tank and an auger...
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...
5125328 Apparatus for cooking and refrigerating food with selective introduction and removal of food  
Apparatus for cooking or refrigerating food which is capable of treating several products having different cooking or refrigerating times, wherein baskets containing these products can be...
5123336 Plant for treating baking good  
A plant for treating baked goods having a baking oven, two fermentation compartments and a cooling tower which constitute a treating compartment for the goods to be treated. Support members...
5121677 Pizza making and baking machine  
A pizza making machine for applying selected ingredients to a pizza crust comprising a number of side-by-side dispensing stations, one station for each of a number of topping ingredients, with each...
5119719 Automated pizza oven  
An automated pizza oven comprising a massive oven enclosure with a fire brick liner about a baking chamber and a massive fire brick turntable disposed in the baking chamber an forming the bottom...
5113754 Apparatus for processing sandwich ingredients  
An automatic sandwich preparation system in which each sandwich is prepared under the control of a computer with condiments as ordered. Meat patties are packaged in spaced positions along a plastic...
5113753 Apparatus for automatic application of condiments to a sandwich  
An automatic sandwich preparation system in which each sandwich is prepared under the control of a computer with condiments as ordered. Shredded lettuce is delivered by an automatic volume...
5111929 Spiral conveyor cleaning system  
A steam cooking device includes an endless conveyor arranged in a spiral path surrounding a cage. The cage is rotatable on a vertical axis to drive the endless conveyor, thus to move food along the...
5112630 Pizza pager signaling process  
A food preparation process is provided in which food service personnel are signaled when cooked pizza or other food is conveyed out of an oven.
5109758 Bakery oven with continuous baking process  
Bakery oven for a continuous baking process which includes a baking chamber provided with a charging opening and a discharging opening, and containing a spiral conveying device provided with a...
5103718 Apparatus and method for processing of a food product  
An apparatus and method for processing a food product. A series of processing cabinets are each provided with an inlet and an outlet in one of the cabinet side walls adjacent an end wall. The...
5101714 Universal cooking and baking apparatus  
Universal cooking unit wherein products to be cooked are introduced into a cooking or baking chamber by a drawer. The drawer includes joints to tightly seal the cooking chamber, which can be placed...
5086694 Apparatus for cooking food products, especially for broiling whole chickens, with means for controlling internal air temperature  
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...
5082419 Process for the input and carrying away of smoking or cooking rods for automatic suspension of a plurality of sausages  
A process 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 tightly...
5077072 Method and apparatus for cooking food on a belt  
A method and apparatus for forming and/or cooking food products upon an imperforate thermally conductive belt has a food dispenser above the belt, a heat plate under the belt, an upper heating...
5072663 Shrimp cooking apparatus  
A shrimp cooking apparatus has a frame having a motor driven endless belt conveyor with a porous endless belt supported to the frame. The frame includes a plurality of upright members, each two...
5070997 Grid burn-off unit for bakery oven  
A bakery oven system is disclosed which includes a bakery oven through which an endless conveyor may pass that carries bakery products to be treated in the oven. The conveyor includes a conveyor...
5048403 Oven for roasting pieces of baked ware  
A baking or roasting oven is provided with a transfer apparatus by which the pieces of edible material which is to be roasted, such as slices of white bread, soft wafers, etc., are fed into the...
5048719 Apparatus for storing, heating and dispensing portioned food items  
An apparatus for storing, heating and dispensing portioned foods items has a cooled storage unit for storing portioned food items, a cooking unit for heating the portioned food items, a transport...
5044264 Cooking apparatus for producing grill stripes on cooked products  
A belt grill or belt cooking apparatus, of the general type previously known for rapidly cooking meat, grilled sandwiches, etc. in a travelling path through the apparatus, has improvements enabling...
5044267 Tunnel for cooling, heating, or drying products of the foodstuffs and especially confectionery industries  
A tunnel for cooling, heating, or drying products of the foodstuffs and especially confectionery industries. The tunnel has a base, especially one comprising several adjacent segments (4), a series...
5033366 Modular food preparation station  
A modular food preparation station for storing and cooking food stuffs such as pizza comprising a base including at least one temperature controlled compartment formed therein to maintain the food...
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...
5018438 Cooking and cooling transfer apparatus at will for automatic introduction and evacuation of containers which contain foods or products having a variable duration of cooking and cooling  
An apparatus for preparing foods for predeterminable period of time. One embodiment of the apparatus is for cooking; another is for refrigeration. The apparatus includes either a cooking container...
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...
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...
4987828 Inductive heating apparatus for cooking thin dishes such as omelets, quiches or the like  
The apparatus comprises an endless conveyor band (2) of insulating material on which are mounted at even distances apart receptacles (7) composed of a metal adapted to receive separate portions of...
4977823 Circulative catering table provided with cool air circulating system  
A circulative catering table provided with an endless conveyer circulating according to the circulating course supported in a horizontal plane at the designated height by a base frame and...
4978548 Method and apparatus for continuous producing of tortilla chips  
Method and apparatus for continuous production of tortilla chips, including mixing tortilla flour and water to form a dough, rolling the dough into a coninuous sheet, cutting tortilla shapes from...
4974503 Apparatus for irradiating food products  
An apparatus is provided for uniformly and rapidly heating, pasteurizing and/or sterilizing food products which comprises a conveyor on which the food products are conveyed and a source of...
4964392 Baking oven  
An oven for baking objects, especially pizzas, has an indirect drive for enabling it to accommodate differences in commercial power on a worldwide basis, by simply changing the ratio of gears,...
4962695 Broiler oven  
An improved method of cooking and an improved broiler/oven that provides different levels of heat to cook meats or the like at a relatively high heat condition and toast buns or the like, at a...
4961373 Treatment system  
A system for thermally processing a strand of link food products includes structure defining an elongated treatment zone, and hook type conveyor structure for supporting a strand of encased food...
RE33374 Forced air/gas burner and baking oven incorporating same  
A ribbon gas burner for use in a baking oven has a row of gas apertures disposed between two rows of air apertures through which air is forced under pressure. The streams of air issuing from the...
4955288 Cake manufacturing machine  
A cake manufacturing machine that can churn the ingredient for cake with hollow churning claws along the filtered compressed air coming out of the claws and then the ingredient churned can be...
4953453 Apparatus for operating locks of baking tongs for producing rottable, preferably edible wafers from wafer dough in a wafer baking oven or an automatic wafer baking machine  
An apparatus for operating the locks of wafer baking tongs, which revolve in a wafer baking oven and move past the stationary operating apparatus, which is mounted in the wafer baking oven,...
4951648 Conveyor oven  
Infrared (IR) strip heaters are juxtaposed with convection heaters for simultaneous, independently controlled, combined radiant/convective heating in a conveyor oven. Apertured plates with portions...
4949629 Cooking a food product in a process vapor at progressively varying rates  
An oven and method for cooking solid foods. The oven comprises an elongated housing divided into tandem cooking zones each with separate cooking and heating chambers. Food products are carried on 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...
4944218 Vending machine for preparing and delivering hamburgers  
Automatic operation of a vending machine for preparing and delivering hamburgers can be initiated by a consumer by means of a payment system. The vending machine comprises, in the direction of feed...
4942810 Water seal blancher  
An improved water seal blancher which utilizes a substantially steam proof chamber to subject a particulate food product to a continuous, controlled temperature treatment in steam, and which...
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...
4940040 Adjustable cooking oven  
An adjustable oven for mass cooking of food products comprising an essentially sealed enclosure having a conveyor received therethrough for conveying food through the oven. A heated gaseous cooking...
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...
4936286 Gas broiler  
A gas fired broiler having a plurality of burners adjacent to multiple conveyors with a shield on at least one of the burners in the area of one of the conveyors.
4934259 Automatic and continuous rice cooking system  
An automatic and continuous rice cooking system comprises a spiral rotary steam vessel with an elongated steam jacket having a semi-circular bottom and housing a screw conveyer, and a steam tunnel...