Patents by Inventor Howard Roth

Howard Roth 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: 4728762
    Abstract: Apparatus for heating and cooking a food product with a combination of microwave heating and convection heating. A food product is placed in a chamber, and microwave energy is introduced into the chamber to heat the food product directly. A microwave absorber is exposed to microwave energy and heated thereby, and air passing over the absorber is heated and circulated within the chamber to further heat the food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Inventors: Howard Roth, Robert F. Schiffmann
  • Patent number: 4681233
    Abstract: A tool holder of unitary construction having a vertical leg and a horizontal leg arranged in an L-shape and made of either metal, plastic or wood and having at least one tab, preferably, two tabs, for securely holding the tool holder to a pegboard or similar mounting surface by means of an interference fit between the tabs and the holes of the pegboard. The tool holder is also provided with a vertical lip extending upward from its horizontal leg and an oblong hole provided through the horizontal leg to allow the holder to hold most common handtools used in carpentry, metal working, cooking and gardening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Inventor: Howard Roth
  • Patent number: 4015518
    Abstract: An apparatus for repeatably forming shaped dough bodies having a filling. A generally cylindrical filling forming mechanism, in communication with a pressurized source of filling material, is contained within and is surrounded by a generally cylindrical dough forming mechanism in communication with a pressurized source of dough. The filling forming mechanism includes an inner chamber which receives the filling material, means defining a filling material transporting channel extending around the circumference of the filling forming mechanism which channel can be selectively opened to permit the filling material to flow out of it, and a generally cylindrical shell member which is mounted to obstruct the filling material transporting channel and which includes a plurality of shaped filling forming orifices in its periphery. The dough forming mechanism has dough forming orifices in its periphery which are aligned with corresponding filling forming orifices in the shell member of the filling forming mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1977
    Assignee: DCA Food Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Roth, Peter R. Baldry, Harold B. Kaufman, Jr., John P. McCarthy, Kurt Wallenfels