Dipping Form Patents (Class 99/431)
  • Patent number: 9596959
    Abstract: A device for cooking cannoli shells is comprised of a rack, a plurality of clips, a plurality of rods and a handle. The clips are attached to the upper side of the rack. The clips releasably secure the rods at a central section of each rod. The rods are shaped such that cannoli dough in the shape of a cannoli shell may be placed on each end of each rod, for a total of two shells per rod. The handles allow the device to be inserted into and removed from hot cooking oil. When the device is placed within a frying pan, the cannoli dough shell wraps on the rods are submerged below the surface of the cooking oil. Multiple racks may be releasably attached to each other to form a multiple tiered device which can be used with a frying pan deep enough to accommodate the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Inventors: Gene Tironi, Kolleen M. Tironi
  • Patent number: 8104399
    Abstract: A cage for holding a filling material includes a housing have a first part and a second part. An orifice is defined between the first part and the second part for holding a filling material. The housing is shaped in a manner such that is it insertable inside a cavity and has an open position in which filling material may be inserted into the orifice. The housing also has a closed position in which the filling material is trapped within the orifice. The housing is cage-like for holding the filling material. The housing may include a handle, hinges for joining the first and second parts, and a latching mechanism for latching the first and second parts together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Inventor: Mark Levie
  • Patent number: 7730831
    Abstract: A pin-less socket apparatus and manufacturing system for assembling a frozen confection using such socket apparatus including a socket for accepting a conical food product therein, the socket having a hook with one or more teeth located at an outer periphery of the socket, a hinge located on an outside of the socket, the hook movably attached to the socket via the hinge, a force mechanism for holding the hook in place against the socket. The force mechanism takes the form of either an annular spring or O-ring located around the socket and hook or a linear spring attached to the hook in a lever-type manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Christian Mange, Matthias Ruppert
  • Patent number: 6949721
    Abstract: A food treating apparatus and method wherein a reducing DC electric current is provided by a DC electric circuit, the food treating apparatus including a vessel and a handle, and wherein at least part of the electric circuit is integral with the handle and is operative to provide electrons to food in the vessel. Further, the added electrons inhibit and/or reduce the formation of acrylamides in the food prepared in the food treating apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Inventors: Branimir Simic-Glavaski, Michael G. Simic
  • Patent number: 5359924
    Abstract: An appliance for cooking a sausage on a stick embedded in a batter. One or a plurality of cylinders are provided for receiving a cooked sausage skewered on a stick which is then filled with a pancake batter. The cylinders are then submerged in a hot oil for a few minutes to cook the batter to produce a breakfast on a stick. The appliance can be in the form of a plurality of cylinders on a plate or can be individual cylinders. The appliance is provided with hooks or a clip to mount it in a deep fat frying basket for submersion in hot oil, In another embodiment the appliance can be free-standing by surrounding each cylinder with a heating coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Inventors: Gordon G. Roberts, Gordon E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 4535687
    Abstract: A device and a method for the manufacture and processing of biscuit mixture shapes, including pressing pick up devices by means of a drive with their forming chambers against the floor of a trough filled with biscuit mixture, and while there, rotating them by means of a drive by 360.degree., while a drive turns the trough somewhat further. Subsequently the pick up devices are raised and placed by a drive in a position above a band conveyor with baking sheets. By means of a drive the ejectors are then moved into the forming chambers and the formed biscuits are deposited by stripping device onto the baking sheet. The baking sheet is fitted with recesses of specific design. The band conveyor transports the formed biscuits into a plant comprising an oven, a cooling device, a second heating device, a removal device and stacking chambers for baking sheets. The removal device is largely identical with the mixture pick up device. The trough receives a supply of mixture which is controlled by a level indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Inventor: Heinz-Josef Antpohler
  • Patent number: 4442761
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for producing bakery goods, and in one embodiment useful in producing so-called rosettes, comprises forming means for forming the desired shape from batter, and cooking means in the form of a tank for containing heated oil, wherein the tank includes means for moving the bakery goods from the region of original exposure of the batter to the oil to means for turning the goods upside down and re-exposing them to the cooking oil, and means for removing the cooked goods from the cooking oil, wherein said means are arrayed in tandem and have associated means for causing formed products to be moved successively from each of said means to the next in sequence, the apparatus being adapted to maintain the forming means within prescribed temperature limits and substantially entirely free from cooking liquid upon being dipped in the batter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: Elsie Palmieri
    Inventors: Johan Van Achterberg, George N. Miles
  • Patent number: 4195560
    Abstract: An electric crepe maker having a base and a separate skillet-like crepe-making-pan. The base has a heating plate with a configuration which is complementary to the inner surface of the pan whereby the pan is adapted to be supported thereon in an inverted position in heat exchange contact therewith during the cooking of a crepe on the outer surface thereof. The crepe pan may also be supported on the heating plate in an upright position for cooking other foods in a conventional manner. The crepe pan is provided with an insulated handle and the heating plate is provided with a heating element which is controlled by an adjustable thermostat switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1980
    Assignee: Sunbeam Corporation
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre DuBois, William L. Lockett
  • Patent number: 4026202
    Abstract: An elongated endless conveyor unit extends in a horizontal plane and successively carries a plurality of article forming molds from a batter coating station through a hot oil within a cooking vessel located under the conveyor and then to a discharge station where the articles are successively removed from the molds. Each of the molds is connected to the conveyor by a corresponding arm assembly including a cam element which is actuated for rotating the arm to remove the mold and article from the oil. The batter is recirculated from a removable reservoir container to an overflow container removably supported within the reservoir container, and the overflow container has an adjustable side wall for precisely selecting the level of the batter relative to the path of the molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Inventor: Roman Szpur
  • Patent number: 4006676
    Abstract: The crepe pan is such that it is adapted to distribute the batter over the flat exposed bottom surface of the bottom of the pan; a base locates and supports the pan in position and is so dimensioned as to surround the flame and distribute the heat evenly over the flat bottom of the pan; the weight distribution of the pan and its handle being such that the pan will be firmly seated around a suitable flange on a shoulder adjacent the flange of the substantially cylindrical base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1977
    Assignee: Atlas Metal Spinning Company
    Inventor: Robert J. Adamis