Patents by Inventor Tom Zanetos

Tom Zanetos 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).

  • Chocolate shape mold assembly
    Patent number: 5033947
    Abstract: A mold assembly for forming solid molded chocolate shapes is formed from first and second sheet-like mold halves separably joined by permanent magnets and having base flanges that support the mold assembly in an upright position for filling through an edge fill opening. The base flanges for the mold assembly include binary-coded mold fill information utilized in chocolate shape production apparatus and specific to that particular mold assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Anthony-Thomas Candy Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Zanetos, Joseph C. Zanetos
  • Apparatus for molding chocolate
    Patent number: 4950145
    Abstract: Chocolate mold filling apparatus having chocolate molds having different number of cavity, cavity volume, cavity fill opening height, and cavity fill opening spacing characteristics. Each mold further has a base flange which incorporates a process code keyed to the mold different characteristics. A sensor detects the base flange process codes and controls a connected conveyor, chocolate metering pump, and chocolate mold fill tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Anthony-Thomas Candy Company
    Inventors: Tom Zanetos, Paul E. Reeder