| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 099486000 | Automatic control or time means | 31 |
| 20080236407 | Automatic nut cracker - A portable nutcracker includes a handle member and a retaining member which are fittable together and axially adjustable with respect to one another. The nutcracker includes a battery powered motor which drives an epicyclic outputting to a threaded shaft on which a ram travels linearly toward and away from an anvil on the retaining member. As a safety feature, the ram advances only when the power button is activated, and retracts automatically when the power button is released. As a power-saving feature, the nutcracker automatically powers down when the ram reaches its forward or backward limit of motion. Faster action may be achieved by adjusting the retaining member relative to the handle member to decrease the space between the ram and the anvil prior to activating the motor. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080307979 | Device for Processing an Edible Product - The invention relates to a device for processing an edible product in the form of a viscous to pasty mass, in particular, an edible product based on a fatty mass, such as chocolate, or based on water, such as ice cream. Said device comprises dosing units (D | 12-18-2008 |
| 20100037786 | FROZEN DRINK MAKER - A frozen drink maker is provided having an ice shaving unit with a rotatable ice chute. A plurality of blender units are positioned about the ice shaving unit, each having a removable blender jar for receiving shaved ice therein. A programmable controller is operably connected to the ice shaving unit and each of the blender units for controlling the operation of the ice shaving unit and the blender units. The programmable controller includes a plurality of preprogrammed routines to make a plurality of different frozen drink, wherein the programmable controller can be selectively set to make one of the plurality of frozen drink in each of the blender jars. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20110203463 | DOUGH PREPARING MACHINE - A dough preparing machine for preparing dough is provided. The dough preparing machine includes a dough batching system for assembling dry ingredients, a dough mixing device, and a dough compressing and dividing device. The dough preparing machine is operable to produce customizable and discrete loaves of dough for baking. The dough preparing machine gathers necessary ingredients for making dough, mixes the dough to a desired consistency, and divides the dough. The mixing device is configured to mix the dough in a bowl and transfer the dough to a container for compressing and dividing operations. The compressing and dividing device includes a first plate having a plurality of blocks and a second plate having a plurality of blades. The blades are configured to slide between the blocks after compressing operations and divide the dough. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110308400 | Machine for Processing Food Products - A machine for processing food products, includes a processing tool oscillatingly driven by a motor and a drive train, and a trigger system which, in each cycle of oscillating movement of the processing tool, triggers a predetermined action of the machine at a predetermined timing, the trigger system including a signal generator arranged in the drive train to deliver a reference time signal in each cycle, a timer measuring a time passed since the last occurrence of the reference time signal, and an electronic control device storing a displacement/time curve of the processing tool for at least one processing speed of the machine and in which a position of the processing tool is programmable at which the action shall be triggered, the control device determining on the basis of the displacement/time curve, the trigger timing corresponding to that position and triggering the action when the timer reaches this timing. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120031285 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE - A kitchen appliance ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120227592 | APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING JUICE - A juice extracting apparatus, which can improve juice extracting efficiency without increasing a number of revolutions of a driving means, is disclosed. A juice extracting apparatus, which can easily clean components including an extracting net unit, while minimizing sludge stuck in or sticking on a component, is also disclosed. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20130025473 | WALNUT SUPPLY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a walnut supply apparatus including: a vibrator applying vibration to a walnut grain to move the walnut grain; a walnut discharging guide part formed at an upper portion of the vibrator to discharge the walnut grain from the vibrator; a feeder formed at one end of the walnut discharging guide part along a moving direction of the walnut grain to supply the walnut grain into a mold; a feeder driving part pivoting the feeder to drop the walnut grain disposed on the feeder into the mold; and a mold driving unit cyclically transferring the mold along a predetermined path. The walnut supply apparatus according to the present invention may accurately supply the walnut grain to the mold without using an additional sensor. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130192477 | Combination Juicer-Blender - An motorised base apparatus for selectively receiving an appliance. The apparatus comprising: a control interface; an appliance coupling element; an appliance sensor element; an appliance retaining mechanism; and a processor element. The processor element being coupled to the appliance sensor element for receiving data indicative of the selectively received appliance. The processor element being coupled to the control interface for adapting the interface in response to the identified appliance. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130255510 | ELECTRIC MEAT DRAINER - One example embodiment includes an electric meat drainer for removing FOG from a meat product. The electric meat drainer includes a container. The container is configured to retain a meat product and allow FOG to freely exit the container. The electric meat drainer also includes a press. The press is configured to move relative to the container and apply pressure to the meat product within the container, where the pressure separates FOG from the meat product, allowing the FOG to exit the container. The electric meat drainer further includes a motor, where the motor is configured to move the press relative to the container. The electric meat drainer additionally includes a FOG container, where the FOG container is configured to receive the FOG which exits the container. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130269542 | PRESERVATION SYSTEM FOR NUTRITIONAL SUBSTANCES - Disclosed herein is preservation system for nutritional substances. The preservation system obtains information about the nutritional substance to be preserved, senses and measures the external environment to the preservation system, senses and measures the internal environment to the preservation system, senses and measures the state of the nutritional substance, and stores such information throughout the period of preservation. Using this accumulated information, the preservation system can measure, or estimate, changes in nutritional content (usually degradation) during the period of preservation. Additionally, the preservation system can use this information to dynamically modify the preservation system to minimize detrimental changes to the nutritional content of the nutritional substance, and in some cases actually improve the nutritional substance attributes. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130269543 | System for Managing the Nutritional Content for Nutritional Substances - A nutritional substance information system collects, stores, tracks, and transmits information regarding the creation, preservation, transformation, conditioning and consumption of nutritional substances, and importantly, in nutritional values, and correlates such information with various organizations, entities, industries, and governments outside the nutritional substance supply systems, so as to optimize the production of nutritional substances, as well as optimize the consumption of nutritional substances. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130269544 | Transformation System for Nutritional Substances - Disclosed herein is a transformation system for at least one component of a single or multi-component nutritional substance. The transformation system obtains information regarding the nutritional substance to be transformed, the desired transformation, and the desired properties, including nutritional content, of the transformed nutritional substance, and dynamically modifies the transformation in response to this information. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130276644 | Transformation System for Nutritional Substances - Disclosed herein is a transformation system for at least one component of a single or multi-component nutritional substance. The transformation system obtains information regarding the nutritional substance to be transformed, the desired transformation, and the desired properties, including nutritional content, of the transformed nutritional substance, and dynamically modifies the transformation in response to this information. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130327230 | Substrate Structure Directed Energy Treatment System And Method For Ingestible Product System And Method - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically directing control of at least partial treatment of the one or more portions of the one or more ingestible substrate structures according to the treatment instructional information regarding the one or more subsequent ingestible substrate structure directed energy operations including directing energy to treat at least in part the one or more portions of the one or more ingestible substrate structures to form at least in part the one or more selected ingestible products subsequent to and based at least in part upon the electronically receiving the user status information and the electronically receiving the selection information. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130327231 | Substrate Structure Embedded Secondary Material Treatment System And Method For Ingestible Product System And Method - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically directing control of at least partial treatment of the one or more portions of second material embedded in one or more ingestible substrate structures according to the treatment instructional information regarding the one or more subsequent ingestible substrate structure embedded secondary material treatment operations including directing energy to treat at least in part the one or more portions of the secondary material embedded in the one or more ingestible substrate structures to form at least in part the one or more selected ingestible products subsequent to and based at least in part upon the electronically receiving the user status information and the electronically receiving the selection information. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20140041533 | Logistic Transport System for Nutritional Substances - Disclosed herein is a preservation system for storage and logistic transport of nutritional substances. The preservation system obtains information about the nutritional substance to be preserved, senses and measures the external environment to the preservation system, senses and measures the internal environment to the preservation system, senses and measures the state of the nutritional substance, and stores such information throughout the period of preservation. Using this accumulated information, the preservation system can measure, or estimate, changes in nutritional content (usually degradation) during the period of preservation. Additionally, the preservation system can use this information to dynamically modify the preservation system to minimize detrimental changes to the nutritional content of the nutritional substance, and in some cases actually improve the nutritional substance attributes. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140366750 | BREADING SIFTING TABLE - A food coating apparatus includes a drum assembly with an input end for receiving coating material and food product, a hollow body for mixing the coating material and the food product to form coated food product and used coating material, and an output end for allowing coated food product and used coating material to exit the drum assembly. A basket is arranged adjacent to the output end of the drum assembly to retain the coated food product and pass the used coating material that exit the drum assembly. A funnel pan collects and funnels the used coating material passed by the basket into a sifter which separates the used coating material into refuse and reusable coating material. A reclamation receptacle receives the reusable coating material from the sifter and is removable from the food coating apparatus to enable pouring the reusable coating material from the receptacle into the drum assembly. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150297035 | METHOD FOR FEEDING EGGS TO AN EGG BREAKING APPARATUS AND AN EGG BREAKING APPARATUS - A method for feeding eggs to an egg breaking apparatus and such an apparatus is provided. In the method eggs are fed to a plurality of egg breaking devices mounted on a egg breaking conveyor by a shell egg in-feed conveyor, each egg breaking device receiving one egg at a time. The shell egg in-feed conveyor is driven by a first drive and the egg breaking conveyor is driven by a second drive, and the position of the first drive and/or the position of the second drive is adjusted in response to changes in the speed of at least one of the shell egg in-feed conveyor and the egg breaking conveyor. The adjustment is preferably performed automatically by a control unit using input from encoders on one or more drive motors, which are preferably servo motors. Size and/or size variation of the eggs may also be taken into account. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20160066589 | ANTI-MICROBIAL APPLICATION EQUIPMENT WITH CONTROLS - A control system for monitoring an antimicrobial application system may include a controller having a monitoring program including an operations unit and an interface unit. The operations unit may include a sensor module operatively coupled to a plurality of sensors positioned to detect operation data associated with the application system in real-time. An adjustment module may adjust the operation of the application system. An analysis module may analyze real-time operation data and initiate a specified response when the analysis indicates that a trigger event has occurred. The response may include issuing a notification to a notification device or initiating the adjustment module to perform a control operation to modify the operation of the antimicrobial application system. A remote monitoring center may control multiple and remote application systems. Mobile devices and a control panel may be operable to interface with operations of the antimicrobial application system via the control system. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160113299 | ANTIMICROBIAL CAPTURE SYSTEM WITH CARBON CONTAINER - According to one embodiment, a container for removing antimicrobials from an antimicrobial composition includes a container body having an exterior and an interior. The interior is at least partially filled with carbon granules configured to remove a portion of the antimicrobials in the antimicrobial composition. The interior is further filled with a liquid to at least a level that completely submerges each of the carbon granules. The container further includes an agitator configured to agitate at least a portion of the carbon granules. The container further includes a drain and a drainage valve. The location of the drainage valve is configured to prevent the drainage valve from lowering a current level of the liquid below the level that completely submerges each of the carbon granules. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160174585 | ANTI-MICROBIAL APPLICATION EQUIPMENT WITH CONTROLS | 06-23-2016 |
| 099487000 | Regulating amount of liquid applied to food | 1 |
| 20100206183 | Inline antimicrobial additive treatment method and apparatus - An antimicrobial treatment method for treatment of solid and semisolid foods in industrial food transport systems is provided. For solid and semisolid food applications, the method and related apparatus comprises a conveyor-based transport system in which antimicrobial additives are added to food packaging. The additives are metered into the packages using optical sensors to identify the size of packages, the amount of additive to be administered, and when such packages are in position to receive administration of the additives. The method is capable of realizing greater than 3 log reductions in live microbes in foodstuffs. The technology may also be used to apply any liquid or semi-solid additive or ingredient into packaging, including in nonfood applications such as medical equipment manufacturing. | 08-19-2010 |
| 099489000 | By food | 5 |
| 20110174169 | AUTOMATIC BREAD MAKER - An automatic bread maker comprises a container in which bread ingredients are fed; a body for accommodating the container; a control unit for carrying out bread-making steps in a state in which the container is accommodated in the body; and a rise detector for detecting that dough has risen to a prescribed height from an upper surface of the container in a state in which the container is accommodated in the body. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20120085247 | Automatic corn cutter apparatus - An automatic corn cutting apparatus for cutting kernels off of husked ears of corn. The ears may be presented to the cutting knives either tip end or butt end first. The ears are fed into the cutting knives by a pair of drive rollers carried by a pair of articulating drive shafts. The drive shafts move in a plane perpendicular to the axis along which the ears are fed to the cutting knives. A sensor, preferably a linear variable differential transformer, or LVDT, is carried by one of the drive shafts remotely from the ears, i.e. the LVDT does not contact the ears. The sensor detects the profile of each ear of corn, and the profile is used by a knife controller to efficiently remove the kernels from each ear of corn. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20150082998 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING POMEGRANATE SEEDS FROM POMEGRANATES - Apparatus for extracting pomegranate seeds from pomegranates including a pomegranate breaker operative for breaking open pomegranates generally without cutting pomegranate seeds at the interior of the pomegranates and a pomegranate seed extractor operative to engage broken open pomegranates for separating the pomegranate seeds from other parts of the pomegranates. | 03-26-2015 |
| 099491000 | To adjust or position tool | 2 |
| 20080196600 | Control of Food Slicing Machines - A food slicing machine is provided which is particularly suitable for slicing food products such as bacon, cheese or cooked meats. The machine has a slicing blade ( | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090090253 | SHEETING HEAD - Sheeting head apparatus for rolling and flattening a quantity of dough, includes a sheeting head, an infeed conveyor, and an outfeed conveyor. The sheeting head defines a dough path therethrough and includes a plurality of opposed roller pairs, a first roller of each pair being positioned on a first side of the dough path and a second roller of each pair being positioned on a second side of the dough path. The first roller of each roller pair is mounted for rotation and for independent movement toward and away from the dough path. The second roller of each roller pair is mounted for rotation adjacent the dough path. The infeed conveyor conveys a quantity of dough to the sheeting head, and the outfeed conveyor for conveying a quantity of rolled and flattened dough from the sheeting head. A sensor, adjacent the infeed conveyor, senses an unduly thick or double quantity of dough being conveyed by the infeed conveyor to the sheeting head. A control is responsive to the sensor and causes the sheeting head to move the first roller of each roller pair away from the dough path. Undesired jamming of the sheeting head by an unduly thick quantity of dough or by a double quantity of dough is prevented. Each of the rollers may be coated with a coating of polytetrafluoroethylene and nickel co-deposits, preferably between 12% and 25% by volume of polytetrafluoroethylene particles in a high phosphorous electroless nickel matrix. The coating has a thickness of substantially between 0.0002 inches and 0.0003 inches, with a Rockwell hardness of substantially 65 to 75 on the C scale. Each of the rollers is preferably made of a mild steel with a finish smoothness, before depositing of the coating, of substantially 4μ-inch RMS. | 04-09-2009 |
| 099492000 | By safety means | 3 |
| 20090064875 | Juicer with alternate cutters - A juicer device comprised of a motor disposed within a housing and having an output shaft projecting away from the housing; at least two alternate cutters each individually detachably connectable to the output shaft; a plurality of alternate inserts wherein a selected one of the plurality of alternate inserts circumscribes a selected one of the at least two alternate cutters detachably connected to the output shaft; and a body circumscribing the selected one of the plurality of alternate inserts wherein the body and the selected one of the plurality of alternate inserts include openings for feeding food to the selected one of the at least two alternate cutters detachably connected to the output shaft and openings for receiving juice, homogenized food, or shredded food therefrom upon actuation of the motor under the control of a safety system. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090084274 | Kitchen appliance comprising a safety system and method for operating a kitchen appliance - A kitchen appliance includes a circuit closer and, a safety lock system which unlocks the circuit closer and permits operation of the kitchen appliance only if the kitchen appliance is properly assembled. The safety lock system includes switches having sensors. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20170231414 | Slow Juicer | 08-17-2017 |
