Patents Assigned to DITSCH USA, LLC
  • Scored pretzel bite apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11974578
    Abstract: A method of making a soft pretzel bite includes cutting a series of transverse slots on one lateral side of a dough strip, curling the transverse slotted dough strip into a respective rolled dough strip, exposing each transverse slot, and transversely cutting each rolled dough strip into dough bites. The method includes washing each dough bite in a caustic solution with the length of each transverse slot being sufficient for excess caustic solution to drain way from the dough bite. The dough bite is baked into a pretzel bite. Each transverse slot allows a volume of the pretzel bite to increase without being constrained by a pretzel skin formed around each transverse slot to aerate an interior of each pretzel bite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ditsch USA, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Gottenbusch, Donald K. Kross
  • Scored pretzel bite apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11324225
    Abstract: A method of making a soft pretzel bite includes cutting a series of transverse slots on one lateral side of a dough strip, curling the transverse slotted dough strip into a respective rolled dough strip, exposing each transverse slot, and transversely cutting each rolled dough strip into dough bites. The method includes washing each dough bite in a caustic solution with the length of each transverse slot being sufficient for excess caustic solution to drain way from the dough bite. The dough bite is baked into a pretzel bite. Each transverse slot allows a volume of the pretzel bite to increase without being constrained by a pretzel skin formed around each transverse slot to aerate an interior of each pretzel bite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DITSCH USA, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Gottenbusch, Donald Kross
  • SCORED PRETZEL BITE APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190307135
    Abstract: A method of making a soft pretzel bite includes cutting a series of transverse slots on one lateral side of a dough strip, curling the transverse slotted dough strip into a respective rolled dough strip, exposing each transverse slot, and transversely cutting each rolled dough strip into dough bites. The method includes washing each dough bite in a caustic solution with the length of each transverse slot being sufficient for excess caustic solution to drain way from the dough bite. The dough bite is baked into a pretzel bite. Each transverse slot allows a volume of the pretzel bite to increase without being constrained by a pretzel skin formed around each transverse slot to aerate an interior of each pretzel bite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: DITSCH USA, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Gottenbusch, Donald Kross
  • Braided pretzel
    Patent number: D910270
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ditsch USA, LLC
    Inventor: James Goldie
  • Pretzel bite
    Patent number: D910271
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ditsch USA, LLC
    Inventor: Gary Gottenbusch