Patents by Inventor Robert Boddaert

Robert Boddaert 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).

  • Apparatus and method for freezing food products
    Patent number: 7296431
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of cooling products includes a conveyor for transporting the products, through a refrigeration medium for cooling the products, agitation means disposed proximate to the conveyor for selective, intermittent contact with the conveyor to displace the conveyor from a plane of travel, thereby displacing the products on the conveyor during freezing to prevent the products from adhering to the conveyor or other of the products during freezing, at least one of the agitation means and the conveyor constructed and arranged to be positioned away from each other for the conveyor to move uninterrupted along the plane of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Muscato, Robert Boddaert, Stephen A McCormick, John Hamilton
  • Apparatus and method for freezing food products
    Publication number: 20060070393
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of cooling products includes a conveyor for transporting the products, through a refrigeration medium for cooling the products, agitation means disposed proximate to the conveyor for selective, intermittent contact with the conveyor to displace the conveyor from a plane of travel, thereby displacing the products on the conveyor during freezing to prevent the products from adhering to the conveyor or other of the products during freezing, at least one of the agitation means and the conveyor constructed and arranged to be positioned away from each other for the conveyor to move uninterrupted along the plane of travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Muscato, Robert Boddaert, Stephen McCormick, John Hamilton
  • Apparatus and process for chilling food products
    Patent number: 5471846
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for chilling a food product which includes a food distribution device having a pair of circular members including at least one spaced-apart partition defining a food receiving area; the circular members rotating to cause food delivered to the food product receiving area to fall into a food storage compartment in a uniform manner; and a cryogen releasing device connected to one of the circular members which uniformly distributes a cryogenic substance to the food product within the food storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Appolonia, Steve McCormick, Robert Boddaert, Charles Cory
  • Apparatus and process for chilling food products
    Patent number: 5363658
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for chilling a food product which includes a food distribution device having a pair of circular members including at least one spaced-apart partition defining a food receiving area; the circular members rotating to cause food delivered to the food product receiving area to fall into a food storage compartment in a uniform manner; and a cryogen releasing device connected to one of the circular members which uniformly distributes a cryogenic substance to the food product within the food storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.
    Inventors: John Appolonia, Steve McCormick, Robert Boddaert