Patents by Inventor Franco Grigoli

Franco Grigoli 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: 5085059
    Abstract: The machine comprises a plurality of mold plates moving along two superposed pairs of guides. Arranged in sequence along the upper guides are a mold filling device, a freezing tank, a stick inserting device, means for removing the freezed product. Arranged at the two ends of the machine are means capable of receiving a mold plate at its exit from the upper guides to bring it to the lower guides, and conversely, without the mold plates being overturned. The mold plates on the lower guides are moved at higher speed than the mold plates on the upper guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Sidam S.r.l.
    Inventors: Franco Grigoli, Franco Trabacchi
  • Patent number: 4986080
    Abstract: A machine for making two-flavor ices, in particular ice lollies, comprising a freezing tank (2) through which parallel rows of molds (A, B) whose cross-sections are inscribable into one another are caused to advance intermittently at two-step rate, a metering-filling unit (6) for filling molds (A), a stick-inserting unit (7), an intermediate withdrawing station (10) in which ices are removed from molds (A) and then released into molds (B), a second metering-filling unit (11) for completing filling of molds (B), and a final withdrawing unit (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Sidam S.r.l.
    Inventors: Franco Grigoli, Franco Trabacchi