Patents by Inventor Norton Sarnoff

Norton Sarnoff 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: 5878656
    Abstract: A disposable and interchangeable roasting pan/cover features a base panel with a side wall about its perimeter. A platform for supporting a food product is positioned on the interior surface of the base panel. A handle recess may form the platform so as to define a handle upon the exterior surface of the base panel. Alternatively, a pair of side wall recesses in the interior surface of the side wall may define handles on the side wall exterior surface while enhancing the structural strength of the pan/cover. A rim is disposed about the outer edge of the side wall and features an even number of staggered tongue and groove features. Two of the pan/covers may be oriented with their rims abutted so that one pan/cover serves as a cover for the other serving as a pan. The tongue and groove features of the two pan/covers engage one another so that the cover oriented pan/cover does not slide off of the pan oriented pan/cover holding the food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Handi-Foil Corporation
    Inventors: Carl R. Fletcher, Norton Sarnoff
  • Patent number: 5389768
    Abstract: A circular microwaveable chip maker integrally molded of a microwave oven resistant plastic material, having a row of spacers defining slots between each adjacent pair of spacers. Thin food items are held in the slots in a spaced array to facilitate their cooking in a microwave oven. The chip maker has a handle for transporting it into and out of a microwave oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher, Laura A. Morris, John F. Chmela
  • Patent number: 5310981
    Abstract: A microwave cooker capable of cooking an assortment of foods by a variety of methods while maintaining constant pressure. The cooker of the present invention boils and steams foods continuously without pressure build up and without the need to shut off the microwave oven. Food spattering and spillage are prevented by a unique internal baffle rib design and a mechanism that releaseably locks the top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl Fletcher, Laura Giese, John Chmela
  • Patent number: 4941401
    Abstract: An elongated microwaveable fish poacher comprising a non-metallic, plastic base, rack and cover, and defining a fish poacher interior. The assembled parts present the appearance of a fish, with handles serving as a tail and fins, and cooperate to minimize undesired exchange of air from exterior of the assembled parts within which fish is adapted to be cooked in a microwave oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 4908487
    Abstract: An egg poacher having two injection molded polypropylene portions. One portion is a cover and the other being a bottom egg receptacle. The egg receptacle portion has at least one egg compartment that is a shallow depression having a bottom wall continuous with an upwardly extending side wall. The egg poacher includes drain outlet and vents whereby the eggs may be drained after cooking and steam and pressure may be released during microwave cooking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1990
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl Fletcher, John Chmela
  • Patent number: 4852760
    Abstract: An aluminum foil oven pan and a wire holding frame therefor is disclosed. The holding frame comprises generally co-planar pan support portions extending beneath the bottom wall of the pan. The pan support portions have upwardly extending lateral portions for restraining the side wall of the pan. Some of the portions terminate in retaining members for being bent over to grip the pan rim. Other portions are provided with handle means whereby a retained pan may be easily lifted with the holding frame so that the user need not touch the pan during cooking procedures and whereby the risk of buckling the pan and spilling the contents therefrom is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 4817812
    Abstract: An aluminum foil oven pan having a holding frame therefor is disclosed. The holding frame comprises wire and has generally co-planar pan support members extending beneath the bottom wall of the pan. The pan support members terminate in upwardly extending lateral portions for restraining the side wall of the pan. At least two of the lateral restraining portions are provided with handle means whereby a retained pan may be easily lifted with the holding frame so that the user need not touch the pan during cooking procedures and risk buckling the pan and spilling the food contents therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 4423551
    Abstract: An improved utensil for cutting pizza or the like is disclosed having a sharpened cutting wheel and a planar blade with a sharpened edge, the edges of both the wheel and blade are aligned so that the cutting paths traversed by each coincide. The pizza crust edges and the pizza body can then be cut respectively by the blade and cutter wheel in one cutting stroke across the pizza. The blade end further includes angled corners for completely separating the pizza at the pan corners. The planar blade is of sufficient width to hold a piece of pizza thereon for serving, and includes a serrated cutting edge to aid in inserting the blade between the pizza and the pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Chmela, Carl R. Fletcher, Norton Sarnoff
  • Patent number: D275315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1984
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Flectcher
  • Patent number: D286849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: D288895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: D297298
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: D311850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: D329961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: D331523
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: D335700
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher
  • Patent number: D349832
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl R. Fletcher, Laura A. Morris, John F. Chmela
  • Patent number: D358311
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Laura A. Giese, John F. Chmela
  • Patent number: D361635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, John F. Chmela
  • Patent number: D362993
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Ensar Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, Carl Fletcher, Laura Giese, John Chmela