Patents by Inventor Leonid Leykin

Leonid Leykin 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).

  • Patent number: 6863179
    Abstract: A container for containing, treating and dispensing a bun in a hot dog dispensing machine has a container element having an inner cavity for accommodating a bun, an open side an a bottom located opposite to the open side, and a projection provided on the bottom and formed so that it supports a bun accommodated in the cavity and can be engaged by a formation of transporting means for transporting the container with the bun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: LHD Vending, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonid Leykin, Aleksandr Kofman, Leonid Khodor
  • Publication number: 20030173248
    Abstract: A container for containing, treating and dispensing a bun in a hot dog dispensing machine has a container element having an inner cavity for accommodating a bun, an open side an a bottom located opposite to the open side, and a projection provided on the bottom and formed so that it supports a bun accommodated in the cavity and can be engaged by a formation of transporting means for transporting the container with the bun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Leonid Leykin, Aleksandr Kofman, Leonid Khodor
  • Patent number: 6619503
    Abstract: A bun dispensing device for a hot dog dispensing machine operative for dispensing buns from a bun containing element which includes a plurality of individual bun containers and a common film to which the bun containers are releasably attached one after the other, the device has a unit for pulling the bun containing element, a unit for separating the bun containers with buns accommodated therein from the film of the bun containing element and located upstream of the pulling a unit, and a unit for guiding the bun containing element and located upstream of the separating unit, the separating unit being formed so that each of the bun containers with the bun accommodated therein is individually separated from the film under the action of the separating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: LHD Vending, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonid Leykin, Aleksandr Kofman
  • Publication number: 20030052134
    Abstract: A bun dispensing device for a hot dog dispensing machine operative for dispensing buns from a bun containing element which includes a plurality of individual bun containers and a common film to which the bun containers are releasably attached one after the other, the device has a unit for pulling the bun containing element, a unit for separating the bun containers with buns accommodated therein from the film of the bun containing element and located upstream of the pulling a unit, and a unit for guiding the bun containing element and located upstream of the separating unit, the separating unit being formed so that each of the bun containers with the bun accommodated therein is individually separated from the film under the action of the separating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Leonid Leykin, Aleksandr Kofman
  • Patent number: 6518553
    Abstract: A device for treating sausage in a hot dog dispensing machine has a substantially closed chamber for receiving a sausage, a unit associated with the chamber and operative for providing a microwave radiation into an interior of the chamber so as to provide cooking of an interior of the sausage, and a unit for generating an infrared radiation arranged outside of an area of the microwave radiation generated by the first unit so as to supply the infrared radiation into the interior of the chamber onto a sausage located in the chamber and therefore to treat a surface of the sausage to provide an exterior skin of the sausage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Inventors: Leonid Leykin, Aleksandr Kofman
  • Patent number: 5873299
    Abstract: A machine for dispensing food items has a cooling unit for accommodating packages of edible inner part and separately outer baked dough part; a unit for opening a package with the edible inner part; a unit for withdrawing individual edible inner part from the open package; a unit for thermal processing of each edible inner part; a unit for opening a box with outer baked dough part; a unit for placing the thermally treated edible inner part into the outer baked dough part in the open package; a unit for warming up the outer baked dough part with the edible inner part located inside the outer baked dough part so as to form a finished food item; a unit for dispensing the thusly formed finished food item; and a transporting a unit for displacing packages with the edible inner parts, the individual inner part, the boxes with the outer baked dough part, and the finished food items between said preceding means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Inventor: Leonid Leykin
  • Patent number: RE42280
    Abstract: A bun dispensing device for a hot dog dispensing machine operative for dispensing buns from a bun containing element which includes a plurality of individual bun containers and a common film to which the bun containers are releasably attached one after the other, the device has a unit for pulling the bun containing element, a unit for separating the bun containers with buns accommodated therein from the film of the bun containing element and located upstream of the pulling a unit, and a unit for guiding the bun containing element and located upstream of the separating unit, the separating unit being formed so that each of the bun containers with the bun accommodated therein is individually separated from the film under the action of the separating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: LHD Vending Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonid Leykin, Aleksandr Kofman