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4635539 Automatic skewered food roaster  
An improved automatic skewered food roaster is disclosed. The roaster disclosed herein is of the type including right and left heat sources vertically disposed in an opposite relation with respect...
4631029 Baking oven with heated air distribution-II  
A bakery oven, of the type employing a continuous spiral conveyor for carrying goods to be baked through an oven enclosure, employs an air distribution system to direct heated air from near the top...
4626661 Air delivery system for an impingement food preparation oven  
An improved air delivery system is provided for an impingement food preparation oven including a plurality of air ducts disposed in a cooking chamber, a plenum connected to the air ducts, and a...
4600596 Automatic food cooking machine  
An oven in a cooking machine has a pair of spaced parallel endless conveyor chains mounted therein and driven by a motor. Pivotally supported baskets for holding food are connected normal to the...
4592273 Apparatus for making bread  
Apparatus in accordance with the invention includes an endless belt conveyor having an insulated bottom belt and a pair of insulated, opposite side belts having longitudinally spaced apart,...
4590848 Cooker  
A cooker for cooking food such as bar-b-que or the like. The cooker has a cooking tower with a rotating carrousel therein and various means for holding the food as it is being cooked. There is a...
4591333 Impingement oven with radiant panel  
A food preparation oven for baking foods which require less heat energy input into a first surface than into a second surface such as pizzas. A radiant panel is provided which is heated by means of...
4583451 Apparatus for automatically cooking products made of batter, such as pancakes  
Products made of batter, such as pancakes, are automatically cooked on a continuous elongated, continuously advanced heated conveyor belt. A dispenser adjacent one end of the belt dispenses...
4574689 Compact barbecue oven  
A highly compact oven for preparing barbecued foods on a commercial basis includes a cabinet having a vertical partition wall that divides its interior into an oven chamber and an equipment...
4571341 Process for continuous rice cooking by steaming and apparatus therefor  
A process for continuously cooking rice by steaming comprises the steps of continuously feeding steeped rice into a vertical steamer, promoting the gelatinization of the rice by gradually heating...
4569658 Tunnel ovens  
A tunnel oven 20 has a baking chamber divided by partitions 21 into a plurality of longitudinally extending zones 22. The oven heating system comprises upper and lower heater ducts 6a, 6b through...
4567819 Apparatus for two-sided grilling of hamburger patties  
A front loading and unloading grill apparatus for two-sided grilling of hamburger patties. The grill apparatus includes upper and lower cooking platens, a patty support panel at the front of the...
4565704 Method and apparatus for frying  
A method and apparatus for contact frying a foodstuff wherein the foodstuff is transported on the upper run of a single solid endless thin steel conveyor belt which is heated from below by short...
4563945 Heat shield-steam distributor for cooking oven  
A combined heat shield and steam distributor for a cooking oven, adapted to be located in the oven between a flame producing combustion unit in the oven and a movable food product conveyor, to aid...
4563944 Product orienting conveyor  
A conveyor for removing generally disc-shaped articles from a liquid and orienting the articles with their planes generally vertical includes an endless conveyor with a surface having a plurality...
4555985 Machine for preparing culinary specialties in the form of flat cakes  
The invention provides a machine for preparing culinary specialties in the form of flat cakes, for example, potato cakes, and is characterized in that it comprises a first station for supplying to...
4556043 Air delivery system for an impingement food preparation oven including a conical air deflector  
An improved air delivery system is provided for an impingement food preparation oven including a plurality of air ducts disposed in a cooking chamber, a plenum connected to the air ducts, and a...
4554437 Tunnel oven  
An infrared tunnel oven includes one or more oven tiers each having a horizontal cooking tunnel with entrance and exit at opposite ends, the tier(s) being supported by a base. Each tunnel is...
4548191 Food cooking oven and method  
An oven and method for cooking food products. The oven comprises an elongated housing having an inlet for food products to be cooked in the oven and an outlet for emitting cooked food product from...
4548130 Automatic food cooking machine  
The present invention is an automatic food cooking machine comprising a frame supporting a housing having an unobstructed opening with an adjustable heating surface at the bottom thereof. Mounted...
4540588 Apparatus and method for dispensing individual orders of a hot food product and components usable therewith  
An apparatus and method for dispensing individual orders of a hot food product. The apparatus is designed to use a food product provided in a dehydrated form, such food product being readily...
4535687 Device for the manufacture and processing of biscuit mixture shapes  
A device and a method for the manufacture and processing of biscuit mixture shapes, including pressing pick up devices by means of a drive with their forming chambers against the floor of a trough...
4532857 Tunnel for refrigerating, heating, or drying products of the foodstuffs and especially the confectionery industry  
A tunnel for refrigerating, heating, or drying products of the foodstuffs and especially the confectionery industry. The hoods that constitute the tunnel are connected to its base by spreaders and...
4530276 Contact toaster  
A contact toaster includes a housing with an inlet and outlet and a toasting chamber defined therebetween. A platen capable of being heated is removably positioned within the toasting chamber and...
4523520 Meat processing equipment  
A continuous meat processing line having a patty-forming machine at the inlet end, a cooking portion, a transfer section, a quick freeze section and a packing section at the outlet end. The cooking...
4517447 Food processing apparatus  
An oven which is suitable for use in baking bread and which incorporates a baking chamber through which an endless conveyor is driven for transporting product support trays into, through and from...
4514167 Oven heating system  
A conveyor is driven in a helical endless fashion within a horizontally annular baking chamber while carrying products to be baked. The air within the chamber is heated by means of burners disposed...
4508025 Tortilla press and oven unit  
A compact tortilla press and oven unit. The press delivers formed tortillas to the oven wherein they are toasted on a plurality of rotating oven discs. The tortilla is initially received by a first...
4488480 Continuous cooking device  
A continuous cooking device includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet defined therein and an intermediate conveyor for conveying food products to be cooked from the inlet to the outlet through...
4479776 Thermal treatment of food products  
Apparatus for imparting thermal energy to or removing thermal energy from a food product, said apparatus comprising intensive and semi-intensive thermal treatment sections and at least one...
4474498 Multiple-pass impingement heating and cooling device  
Apparatus adapted to deliver a temperature-controlled gas from a common plenum to at least two thermal treatment zones is provided. The subject apparatus is adapted to direct columnated jets of a...
4462383 Impingement food preparation apparatus  
An oven for preparing food comprising an enclosure having a conveyor received therethrough for conveying food to be prepared through the enclosure. Positioned within the enclosure and about the...
4448117 Humpback oven-broiler  
A tunnel oven-broiler wherein food products of ordinarily flame-producing character such as steaks, chops or other greasy meats prone to burn or produce flame are broiled in a flame-controlled...
4444553 Heat treating a particulate commodity  
Apparatus for heat treating a particulate commodity comprising an enclosure having a lower wall in the form of a concave, perforate deck, supply means for supplying pressurized fluid at a...
4444094 Intermittent automatic grill for hamburger patties  
A frame supports a cross-bar conveyor for advancement over a hamburger patty feeding plate and between upper and lower heated platens. The upper platen is raised by actuators and falls by gravity...
4440071 Conveyor system for skewered foods  
The invention comprises an endless conveyor system having particular application in an apparatus of the type wherein raw foods are conveyed past a cooking element and subsequently dispensed as a...
4438683 Apparatus for dispensing individual orders of a hot food product and components usable therewith  
An apparatus and method for dispensing individual orders of a hot food product. The apparatus is designed to use a food product provided in a dehydrated form, such food product being readily...
4438686 Apparatus for mixing a comminuted food material and a liquid  
Apparatus and method of mixing a comminuted food material and a liquid to form a solid food article includes a rotary measuring wheel for dispensing the food material from a storage bin in discrete...
4428280 Cooking apparatus  
A cooking apparatus is provided comprising a hopper for storing raw or precooked foodstuffs; metering means constructed and arranged to meter by weight a predetermined quantity of foodstuffs...
4422372 Food extruder  
A food extruder wherein an extruder plate has perforations between its inside and outside surfaces and is sandwiched between a food chamber and a fluid housing is disclosed. Food enters the chamber...
4417507 Shrimp processing system  
A feed tank portion (11) of a conventional shrimp processing apparatus is divided into forward (35) and rear (33) sections by an intermediate baffle (31), which extends across the full width of the...
4401018 Cooking apparatus  
A cooking apparatus for roasting, broiling or smoking meat or other food by hanging the item over a source of heat in a manner that the meat and the like is constantly moved to accomplish rapid and...
4389562 Conveyor oven  
A conveyorized, electrically heated oven provides controlled top and bottom heating for pizza or other food products. Cooking is accomplished in two ways. The top of the food is cooked with heated...
4382403 Industrial cooking machines  
The present invention provides an industrial cooking machine having an endless conveyor passing through both a preheat region and a cooking region with a pair of accesses to the conveyor. These...
4381697 Apparatus to make cookies  
An apparatus to make cookies which consists of a drum shaped device known as a die roll for shaping the cookies. The drum shaped die roll receives dough from a feed hopper and deposits the shaped...
4379795 Method for coating a food product on a stick  
A process for preparing and cooking corn dogs which are batter coated weiners upon a stick has a fry tank and coating bin mounted on a frame. Food articles are impaled by sticks driven through...
4377109 Apparatus for baking food products such as pizzas and the like  
A product conveyor that has a predominately open area transports food substances such as pizzas and the like to be cooked through a thermally insulated treatment zone. An array of nozzles disposed...
4370920 Rotating barbecue grill  
A rotating barbecue grill for uniformly and automatically cooking frankfurters, sausages, hamburgers, steaks, and other food items through the use of rotating rods or rollers defining a grilling...
4368664 Apparatus to transfer heat to a product and side loading door therefor  
An apparatus to transfer heat to a product is disclosed. In one arrangement, the apparatus includes a cabinet which forms a product input port, a product output port and a product support means...
4366182 Method and installation for roasting and grilling skin-covered meat product, such as poultry and particularly chicken  
A skin-covered meat product, such as poultry and especially chickens, is roasted and grilled in a cassette-oven installation with a roasting oven, a spray box and a grilling oven. First the skin of...