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7601372 Continuous pickle desalting process and apparatus  
A continuous method and an apparatus for desalting pickles is provided. The method comprises conveying pickles having a certain salt content along a path; spraying water onto the pickles as they...
7592570 Oven with convection air current and energy savings features  
An oven for heating, cooking, or toasting a food product. The oven can comprise a conveyor for conveying the food product, and a parabolically shaped top surface with a plurality of reflectors...
7554057 Modular oven for cereal-paste based foodstuffs  
The invention relates to a modular oven for food products, the oven including a conveyor device for entraining the products from an inlet to an outlet of the oven, and comprising in cascade at...
7500426 Rotary cooker and cooler with improved product transfer mechanism  
A food processing apparatus includes a tank having an inlet end and a discharge end and at least one baffle divides the tank into a first compartment and a second compartment, wherein a temperature...
7490543 Oven for baking batter goods  
An oven for baking batter goods, in particular, a wafer oven, has several baking plates assigned to one another in pairs, and at least one heat source for tempering or heating the baking plates....
7464806 Suspension device for linked products  
Provided herein are various suspension devices and associated methods and apparatus to open loops (or form opened loops) in a chain of linked products suspended from one or more suspension devices...
7424848 High speed cooking device and method  
A cooking device that is capable of rapidly cooking food products such as in toasting bread products or cooking pizza. The cooking device uses air impingement from above and/or below the food...
7404481 Retaining pins for stacking conveyor for slicing machine  
A stacking conveyor for receiving slices cut from a food loaf or slab includes a frame, an endless belt conveying surface, a carrier, a plurality of pins, and a motive mechanism. The endless belt...
7390991 Horizontal carousel conveyor  
A horizontal carousel conveyor moves in a horizontal plane by using vertically-oriented conveyor links. When used with an oven, it continuously moves foods and other items in a closed, horizontal...
7381927 Oven for cooking cone-shaped foods  
A horizontal carousel conveyor carries cone-shaped foods and other specialty-shaped foods through an oven, rotating the food on a heating station as it passes by heating elements and through the oven.
7377209 Hot dog cooker  
Apparatus comprising a hot dog cooker having a rack with flat faced bars configured to move above and along a cooking surface so as to cause hot dogs to rotate along heated ridges of the surface....
7357953 Method for manufacturing sausages, and container for containing sausages to be processed  
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing dry sausages by the successive processing steps of: A) manufacturing a half-finished product which is still to be dried and consists of a skin...
7344019 Boron coated stainless steel wire belt assembly  
A conveyor belt for use in the food processing industry includes a stainless steel substrate and nickel-boron coating material. The nickel-boron coating is applied on at least a portion of the...
7343912 Conveyor oven with improved air return and method  
A conveyor oven in which a heated circulating air stream provides impingement air toward a conveyor, which is turned to flow horizontally along the conveyor toward an inlet and/or an outlet...
7340992 Dual belt conveyor oven  
An air impingement conveyor oven including a baking case having an interior space, a food input port, a food output port, and having a longitudinal axis extending from the food input ports to the...
7325486 Food processing apparatus and method  
A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial...
7325483 Automated belt cooking machine pancakes or the like  
An automated belt cooking machine ( 10 ) for pancakes and the like food products has upper and lower overlapping, thermally conductive belts ( 12, 14 ), counter-rotatably mounted to a frame ( 16 )...
7307243 Dynamic radiant food preparation methods and systems  
A continuous oven for heating a food product having an outer surface and an interior includes an enclosure with a first heating zone and a second heating zone. A conveyor is configured to convey...
7285759 Baking oven  
A baking oven is provided with a baking oven housing with a baking chamber. The latter is divided into at least two baking zones each of them being provided with at least one own baking oven supply...
7278350 Belts with integral flights for use in high-temperature food processing equipment and systems including such belts  
A flexible composite with integral flights is provided and methods for making the same. The composite is made from, for example, silicone rubber, urethane rubber, polytetrafluoroethylene or other...
RE39828 Convection/impingement oven for continuously cooking food  
An improved convection/impingement oven for continuously cooking food. The oven has a wire link type belt which moves through an elongated cooking chamber. Hot air is blown on the upper surface of...
7264107 Food object transfer system and method  
A system for transferring an object between driven conveyors comprising an upper conveyor comprising a discharge end, a first belt for transporting the object, the first belt engaging a first end...
7258881 Conveyorized oven with moisture laden air impingement and method  
A conveyor oven having a heating chamber and an oven chamber. A conveyor is disposed in the oven chamber to convey food products between an entry port and an exit port. An air impingement assembly...
7246554 Baking oven charging arrangement and baking system comprising such charging arrangement and baking oven  
A charging arrangement for a baking oven ( 8 ) is provided with a supply arrangement ( 9 ) for dough pieces ( 4 ) and a lifting and delivery device ( 34 ) for the dough pieces ( 4 ). The supply...
7222726 Oven conveyor alignment system apparatus and method  
An oven conveyor alignment system for maintaining a conveyor belt centered on its supporting rollers is disclosed. The system comprises a camera that generates an image of alignment and stores it...
7220944 Modular cooking oven and related methods  
An improved, modular convection/impingement oven assembly for continuously cooking food. In certain embodiments, the assembly comprises at least one non-recirculating impingement oven unit and at...
7210574 Pasta dryer  
A pasta dryer comprising a conveyer belt for conveying and delivering dried pasta, the conveyor belt being configured as a continuous conveyor. To operate more efficiently, the conveyor belt has a...
7207263 Single mold form fryer with product centering elements  
A mold form fryer utilizing a top conveyor that transports snack pieces through a constant velocity oil stream without the need of a bottom mating mold or conveyor. Herein, the form fryer is...
7202447 Conveyor type oven  
A conveyor type oven ( 10 ) for processing food products ( 32 ) and a method of use that includes heating sections and/or zones, each of the heating sections/and or zones being individually...
7193184 Impingement oven with radiant heating  
An oven for providing radiant and impingement heat to a food item. The oven includes a fan mechanism for drawing air around the radiant heat elements of the oven. The air is then delivered to an...
7174830 Robotic cooking system  
An automated system of preparing food designed with the preparation of Chinese food in mind, the system can be adapted to whatever type of food is desired by the user. The system uses one or more...
7137334 Devices, systems and methods for thawing, heating and/or glazing previously frozen baked goods or dough-based products  
Devices, systems and methods for thawing, heating and/or glazing previously frozen baked goods and other dough-based products, wherein the products can be thawed in an environment having a selected...
7131529 Oven conveyor alignment system apparatus and method  
An oven conveyor alignment system for maintaining a conveyor belt centered on its supporting rollers is disclosed. The system comprises a camera that generates an image of alignment and stores it...
7121107 Continuous transfer type freezer  
A continuous transfer type freezer for cooling or freezing articles such as foodstuffs transferred on a conveyor belt by spraying chilled air from slit nozzles on the articles is provided in which...
7107899 Spiral oven, heat delivery, enclosure and drive  
A spiral oven for continuous duty in continuous food process lines has an oven compartment enclosing a double-helix arrangement, of which there is a helical run of a food-carrying conveyor in...
7091452 Conveyor type oven  
A conveyor type oven ( 10 ) for processing food products ( 32 ) and a method of use that includes heating sections and/or zones, each of the heating sections/and or zones being individually...
7069845 Equipment for the automatic tray positioning of articles, in particular sausages or other alimentary products  
Equipment for the automatic tray positioning of single cylindrical or spherical pieces. The equipment includes a first conveyor for the feeding of a sequence of single pieces along a first...
7069841 Steam shrimp cooker  
A steam cooker for cooking foodstuffs, especially shellfish such as shrimp, in a continuous cooking process in a pure saturated-steam environment at 100° C. and atmospheric pressure. The cooker...
7063008 Injera manufacturing system  
A manufacturing system for the manufacture of an Ethiopian staple food referred to as Injera and sometimes Enjera, including an apparatus and a method or process. The system includes a depositing...
7038172 Conveyorized food broiling apparatus  
A programmable control system for a cooking apparatus having a housing defining a cooking chamber with one or more food transport conveyors traveling there-through between opposing cooking...
7026579 Food preparation oven having quartz heaters  
Food is heated in an oven using multiple planar, electrically-heated quartz heaters. A variable speed conveyor controls the time that the food is exposed to the infrared energy. A controllable...
7015436 Apparatus for the heat treatment of foodstuffs and feedstuffs, in particular for the production of bakery products  
An apparatus for the heat treatment of foodstuffs and feedstuffs, in particular for the production of bakery products, such as wafer products, has a continuously moving conveying device, a device...
7008657 Method and apparatus for cooking meat  
A method and apparatus for preparing cooked particulate meat products, such as bacon bits or other bacon seasonings and toppings. The raw meat is ground to a first size in a first grinder, mixing...
7004159 Conveying cooking oven and method  
A cooking oven having a cooking chamber with a rear entry portion and a forward exit portion. There is a conveying platform extending along the length of the cooking chamber, and this platform...
7001626 Automated grill  
An automated grill automatically transfers frozen food from a freezer component to grilling component by an automatic loading device in response to a signal. Frozen food is loaded in a loading side...
6994016 Sealed system and continuous process for making food products  
A system and a process for making food products, such as dehydrated potato products, with reduced water usage, and reduced waste water production, are provided. The system includes a precooker, a...
6981582 Systems and methods for compact arrangement of foodstuff in a conveyance system  
A system for arranging foodstuff in compact formations is presented. The system contemplates a lateral conveyance apparatus having a transport surface, such as a moving conveyor belt, that is...
6948423 Apparatus for producing confectionery  
Disclosed is an apparatus for producing confectionery. In the apparatus for producing confectionery, a material injection unit for supplying materials into a confectionary mold includes a hopper,...
6915734 Pizza making method and system  
The invention provides an automated method and apparatus for pizza production which is initiated by individual order placement and uses only fresh ingredients (no ingredients are frozen,...
6910410 Method and apparatus for manufacturing charcoal grilled foods  
A method and apparatus for manufacturing charcoal grilled foods including a forge conveyer loading and transferring charcoals burning after firing, a temperature sensor detecting the heating power...