Patents by Inventor Bernard Zorn

Bernard Zorn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200077665
    Abstract: A method and installation for the industrial manufacture of bakery products is provided. The method includes placing, optionally after shaping, at least one piece of dough on a support plate, and subjecting the dough to a rising stage. The method further includes, upstream of the rising step, a step where the dough is placed on a substrate heated to a temperature of between 80° C. and 180° C. for the formation of a film on the surface of the dough through contact with said heated substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventor: Bernard ZORN
  • Publication number: 20180289021
    Abstract: Provided is a method and device for shaping dough to produce baguettes, long loaves, elongate rolls or the like. Starting with a laminated dough strip being spread out over a conveyor belt the laminated dough strip is cut in the longitudinal direction into a plurality of smaller strips, transversely spacing the smaller strips apart from each other, and cutting them to length by a transverse cut so as to define smaller dough strip portions extending longitudinally over the conveyor belt in transverse rows substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the conveyor belt. At least one transverse row of longitudinal smaller dough strip portions is shaped, driven by an alternating transverse movement of a shaping plate extending transversely to said conveyor belt and located above said row(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventor: Bernard ZORN
  • Patent number: 9511939
    Abstract: The transport device of the noria type includes a drive chain having links and being wound around two deflection wheels so as to describe a loop circuit. There is a first, ascending vertical chain strand and a second, descending vertical chain strand. One link of the chain holds a support arm extending in a direction perpendicular to the chain. The support arm is attached laterally to a link by a mount. The mount has a support surface at each of its ends. At least across one of these support surfaces, the mount rests on another, contiguous mount of another support arm attached to another link of the chain, on the ascending strand and descending strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Mecatherm
    Inventor: Bernard Zorn
  • Publication number: 20160145047
    Abstract: The transport device of the noria type includes a drive chain having links and being wound around two deflection wheels so as to describe a loop circuit. There is a first, ascending vertical chain strand and a second, descending vertical chain strand. One link of the chain holds a support arm extending in a direction perpendicular to the chain. The support arm is attached laterally to a link by a mount. The mount has a support surface at each of its ends. At least across one of these support surfaces, the mount rests on another, contiguous mount of another support arm attached to another link of the chain, on the ascending strand and descending strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventor: Bernard ZORN
  • Patent number: 9173409
    Abstract: The support plate device for baked goods, pastries, or Viennese baked goods, includes at least one lower plate and at least two molds supported by the lower plate. The device further includes at least one upper plate, which covers the molds. The lower surface of the upper plate engages with the upper ends of the respective edges of the molds. There is a resilient return device for each mold, generating a force urging each mold individually and separately against the lower surface of the upper plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: MECATHERM
    Inventors: Bernard Zorn, Olivier Sargent
  • Publication number: 20150037451
    Abstract: The support plate device for baked goods, pastries, or Viennese baked goods, includes at least one lower plate and at least two molds supported by the lower plate. The device further includes at least one upper plate, which covers the molds. The lower surface of the upper plate engages with the upper ends of the respective edges of the molds. There is a resilient return device for each mold, generating a force urging each mold individually and separately against the lower surface of the upper plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Bernard Zorn, Olivier Sargent
  • Publication number: 20080156200
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sole for a bakery oven, wherein the bakery oven has at least one chamber for cooking baked products, Viennese bakery products, pastry products or similar. The inventive sole includes a woven mesh structure having wires and cables of stainless steel or similar. The invention also relates to a bakery oven having one such sole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: MECATHERM, Societe Anonyme
    Inventor: Bernard Zorn