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7571676 Apparatus and method for reducing microorganisms on produce using chlorine dioxide gas  
This invention provides an apparatus and method for processing produce to reduce microorganisms thereon by treating the produce in a treatment chamber. The treatment chamber comprises a produce...
7534978 Process chamber of an installation for the thermal treatment of printed circuit boards  
A process chamber of an installation for the thermal treatment of printed circuit boards is described. The process chamber may include a fan wheel supported on a shaft parallel to the printed...
7409904 Baking oven  
A baking oven comprises a feeding portion having a feeding aperture for introducing dough pieces, a baking chamber and a discharge portion having a discharge aperture for removing dough pieces. In...
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...
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...
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...
7018201 Dual-zone dehydration tunnel  
A dehydration tunnel for fruits, vegetables, and other products reduces the vulnerability of the products to damage from carmelization and case hardening by dividing a row of product vessels into...
7001631 Low temperature sanitization of human pathogens from the surfaces of food and food packaging  
Almonds are often harvested off the ground from around trees which have been fertilized with manure. Potentially hazardous microbes are transferred from the husk to the shells during the dehusking...
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...
6803065 Method and apparatus for making smoked food  
An inlet ( 11 a ) and an exit ( 11 b ) are formed at opposite ends of a chamber ( 11 ), and transporting device ( 12 ) is moved into the chamber from the inlet toward the outlet. The transporting...
6629493 Pizza crust and process and apparatus for making same  
Apparatus for preparing parbaked food products, such as pizza crust shells, and dough formulation used therein, and the product produced thereby and/or therefrom. The apparatus operates on a...
6604452 Food processor with circulation system and method  
A food processing system circulates a processing medium along a circulation path having first and second segments perpendicular to food product travel along a horizontal conveyor. In another...
6595117 High speed variable size toaster  
A cooking appliance which is capable of rapidly toasting a food product disposed therein by air impingement and infrared heating to provide a cooked food product having the desired color and...
6588327 Pasteurizer  
An energy and water saving pasteuriser capable of maintaining a stable temperature distribution pattern even when transfer work are interrupted during the operation, or a tunnel type refrigerator (...
6572911 Impingement oven with steam injection and method of baking dough products  
An oven utilizes a convective heat transfer mechanism for cooking the food products where the oven provides heated gas in the form of columns or streams and which are directed to at least one...
6543339 Apparatus for aseptically packaging protein-containing material  
A protein-containing composition is provided which is produced by the steps of: coagulating a protein-containing material; emulsifying the protein-containing material; continuously heating the...
6523462 Aligned food processing system  
A food processing system for an elongated strand of food product, such as hot dogs or sausage links, provides aligned orientation of conveyor hooks and identical arrival time spacing between...
6516710 Apparatus for preparing Masa flour from dry milled maize  
The invention relates to an improved process for preparing Masa flour from dry milled maize comprising direct steam treating of the Masa meal, and also relates to a vertical cooking vessel suitable...
6516712 Steam generator for convection oven and related heat accumulator construction  
A steam generator is formed by a plurality of similar heat accumulator units stacked vertically. Each heat accumulator unit of the stack has an orientation different than any adjacent heat...
6382088 Apparatus for the storage of dough products in a fermentation chamber  
Dough products are stored in a fermentation chamber on a rack system in which in each of a multiplicity of horizontal planes located one above the other, the palettes carrying the dough products...
6367374 Treatment of food products  
A product-carrying unit side portions extending along two opposite regions for engagement with respective support features of a product treatment chamber. A floor region of the unit extends between...
6354196 Apparatus for gas treatment of products  
An apparatus for gas treatment of products rises a housing having top, bottom and side walls; a conveyor belt for transporting the products along a first path in the housing; a tunnel having...
6352021 Apparatus for heating and controlling the process temperature in a tunnel pasteurizer  
An apparatus for heating and controlling the process temperature in a tunnel pasteurizer, in particular for packaged food products, in which the tunnel, provided with a conveyor able to advance the...
6350482 Apparatus and method for food microbial intervention and pasteurization  
An apparatus and method for microbial intervention and pasteurization of food product surfaces. The apparatus comprises a chamber, a steam generator, a controller, a timer, a power source, and a...
6320165 Impingement oven airflow devices and methods  
Embodiments of the present invention can be used in situations in which heat and mass-transfer modified product, such as individual-sized pizzas, are to be prepared in relatively short periods of...
6299922 Device and method for puffing granular material  
An apparatus for puffing granular material, in particular cereals and legumes, has a heating apparatus for preheating the granular material and a puffing reactor for puffing the material. For...
6253666 Turning structure of a baking equipment  
A baking equipment has an oven to bake an article which was dipped in a resin, a sealing box, and a plurality of heating devices and a turning structure disposed in the sealing box. The turning...
6220150 Apparatus for producing a reconstitutable dehydrated food product  
A method for producing a reconstitutable dehydrated food product and an apparatus for producing such a product are described. The method calls for the use of a stationary vessel that is used as...
6171630 Method and apparatus for generating and applying steam for food cooking and finishing  
Food cooking apparatus for melting cheese disposed on a food product. The cheese topped food product, for example a bun half, burger patty and cheese stack, is transferred in and out of a cooking...
6162477 Process and apparatus for treating food products with ozone  
A process for decolorizing, sanitizing and deodorizing a food product with ozone. The food product and water are mixed to form an initial solution and supplied to a pumping device to pressurize the...
6145433 Apparatus having members for preparing an extruded food product and particularly a multi-colored product  
Apparatus for preparing an extruded food product, particularly a multi-colored food product, includes a mixer for mixing food materials for obtaining a base material mixture which is emulsifiable...
6142066 Smoked food apparatus  
An apparatus, and method for cooking and smoking food items and a smoked product produced by the inventive method. The inventive apparatus preferably comprises (a) an oven including a belt-type...
6142065 System for controlling the pasteurization heat treatment, in particular of packaged food products, in tunnel-type pasteurizers  
The pasteurization heat treatment control system according to the present invention, in the case of irregular operation of the pasteurizer, regulates the heat cycle by monitoring of the temperature...
RE36941 Dual conveyor oven  
The oven of the present invention is a low profile, dual conveyer conveyor oven including an oven cabinet, two closely spaced conveyers conveyors and an air heating and circulation system....
6120822 Apparatus and method of food decontamination by treatment with ozone  
The present invention provides a system for the decontamination of agricultural products by reacting the toxins and microorganisms, contaminating the product, with ozone. The ozone is generated on...
6099882 Method and apparatus for roasting and smoking skinned food products  
A system for preparing a skinned food product includes a roasting unit, a smoking chamber, and a conveyor system for transporting the skinned food product through the roasting unit and through the...
6086833 Process and equipment for sanitizing and packaging food using ozone  
Systems and processes are described for sanitizing a food product with ozone gas. The ozone gas is generated using a low pressure, low volume ozone gas generator and is delivered to a fluid...
6082250 Device for treating starch-based products  
6082251 Apparatus and method for cooking food products for consumption  
An apparatus and method are disclosed for cooking food products. In particular, cereal grains and rice products may be cooked pursuant to a multi-step process in which rice is first prewashed,...
6080435 Method and system for disinfection and sterilization of foodstuffs and machinery  
A method and installation for disinfection or sterilization of food articles or machinery, in which the item of food or machinery to be disinfected or sterilized is electrically grounded, and vapor...
6019033 Apparatus for steam pasteurization of food  
An apparatus for destroying pathogens on food, including a steam chamber having an entrance opening and an exit opening. An entrance door structure nominally closes the entrance opening in the...
6009798 Product feeding and cooking apparatus  
Apparatus for feeding and cooking raw product, such as shellfish and the like, in a continuous process. A preferred version of the apparatus includes a feed tank with raw product immersed in a...
5979302 Oven with slide-out transfer guides  
An oven with slide-out transfer guides is provided for use in conjunction with multiple conveyor ovens to provide quick and convenient accessibility to an oven's interior in case of product...
5970857 Baking oven  
In a baking oven comprising at least one hearth, a baking conveyor belt, which is guided over a deflection roller, is allocated to each hearth. The deflection roller is extended out of the baking...
5934178 Air impingement oven  
An oven for continuous cooking of products carried upon a open mesh wire conveyor provides the impingement of a cooking vapor from air discharge structure having ports arrayed above and below the...
5888572 Process for baking muffins in disposable baking tray  
A disposable muffin tray is used in a baking process having a baking step using a spiral oven with a water bath therein. Hot air is directed into close surface contact with the water pool and then...
5855941 Method for processing materials to change their texture, apparatus therefor, and resulting materials  
Materials, for example, plant-based food products, are subjected to heat and pressure in a processing enclosure, wherein the pressure is greater than the pressure of the atmosphere. The heated,...
5832812 Dual conveyer oven  
The oven of the present invention is a low profile, dual conveyer oven including an oven cabinet, two closely spaced conveyers and an air heating and circulation system. The conveyers and the oven...
5834049 Food sterilizing method and apparatus  
A food sterilizing apparatus has a plurality of sterilizing units (18) each comprising a stationery upper member (14) defining an open-bottom chamber (30) and an elevatable lower member (16)...
5826496 Cooking oven  
The invention relates to a cooking oven for cooking food products. A modular cooking oven herein disclosed may include a plurality of modules arranged in end-to-end relationship, with partitions...
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