Patents by Inventor Santo Zito

Santo Zito 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).

  • Process for coating pizza shells with sauce
    Patent number: 3982033
    Abstract: Pizza sauce is applied to pizza shells by a method in which the shells are held stationary and the sauce applied in a movement thereabove. The pizza shells are transmitted along a horizontal deck to a position at which the movement is interrupted for sufficient time to apply the pizza sauce to the pizza shells. A volumetric amount of pizza sauce is drawn from a supply source and furnished to distribution nozzles that rotate above the pizza shells. The distribution nozzles deposit the pizza sauce along the radii of the pizza shells while the distribution nozzles are rotated in a circle above the pizza shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1971
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1976
    Assignee: Fairmont Foods Company
    Inventor: Santo Zito