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| 20090045185 | FOOD HOLDING OVEN WITH MATTE FINISH FOOD HOLDING TRAY - A food holding oven, which is used to keep previously-prepared foods hot until they are served, is provided with a food holding tray having a roughened or matte finish. The matte finish keeps the tray's service temperature lower and easier to handle than prior art trays with highly reflective, shiny surfaces. When the matte-finish tray is held under a principally pure infrared heat source for long periods of time, the tray's surface temperature prevents food from being burned and reduces the likelihood of a user being burned. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090057293 | FOOD HOLDING OVEN AND TRAY WITH INFRARED HEAT WEIGHTED AROUND THE TRAY PERIPHERY - A food holding oven holds pre-cooked food at a selected temperature by heating the food in a food-holding tray using infrared energy obtained from a multi-layer planar infrared energy source above the food. The infrared emitted from the planar IR source is produced by electrically heated windings in either a boustrophedonic or crenellated pattern, the loops and crenellations of which are more closely spaced near the edge of the heater than they are away from edges of the heater. The IR from the heater is directed toward the tray such that there is more IR directed at the tray edges than is directed toward the tray interior regions. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090114636 | CONTROLLER FOR A FOOD HOLDING OVEN - A controller for a food holding oven determines one or more time periods during each of which heat is directed at a pre-cooked food item. By controlling the heat intensity and the time over which different amounts of heat are provided to different types of pre-cooked food items, the time during which a particular type of pre-cooked food item can be kept palatable is maximized. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100072229 | FIXED-VOLUME LIQUID DISPENSER - A dispenser for viscous liquids effectuates sequential operations by hydrostatic pressure on an assembly of two pistons separated from each other in a cylinder by a separation spring. When the piston assembly is embedded in material to be dispensed, the space between the pistons fills with material to be dispensed. Pressuring the reservoir by squeezing it or by the addition of pressurized gas, forces the piston assembly down the cylinder at the end of which is an opening from which material in the piston assembly can escape. One of the pistons moves toward the other end by pressure from the reservoir, causing material in the piston assembly to be dispensed. The volume inside the piston assembly defines and limits the volume of material that can be dispensed. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100089251 | FOOD PRODUCT STEAMER - A steamer for sandwich buns, bagels, croissants, cakes, vegetables, pastas, and other foods delivers fixed amounts of water onto a hot, dry platen through a vertically-oriented water conduit which is also thermally insulated from the hot platen and made from thermally insulating materials. The vertically-oriented water conduit retains water after a water supply is shut off at the beginning or end of a steam generating cycle. Orienting the conduit vertically reduces the surface area of liquid water exposed to air. Insulating the water conduit from the hot platen reduces the rate at which water standing in the conduit evaporates. Tubes used in the water conduit are insulating and easily removed from the water conduit assembly and flexible. Minerals that precipitate out of solution and become deposited onto the flexible tube are easily removed by flexing the flexible tube. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100098825 | FOOD PRODUCT HANDLING DEVICE - A spatula ( | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100116147 | BIFURCATED HEATED TOASTER PLATEN - A food heating device usable as a toaster, fryer or warmer uses a metal plate having separately heated regions separated by a thermal break. The separately heated regions use separately energized and controlled heating elements embedded to the material from which the metal plate is made. One region can be kept hot while the other region is shut off or kept at a lower temperature until demand requires both sides to be heated. Separating the regions by a thermal break reduces heat transfer from the hot side to the cool side. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100139497 | FOOD HEATING DEVICE - A food heating device ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100139906 | DROP-IN PASSIVE THERMAL INSERT FOR FOOD SERVICE COUNTERS - Passive temperature control is provided to vessels too tall to be stored in a shallow, temperature-controlled tray or basin by a vertically oriented thermally-conductive tube. In one embodiment, an insulative collar covers the tray and insulates portions of the tube that extend above the top of the tray. Optional heat sinking fins and air convection holes increase heat transfer between the tube and the tray. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100139907 | PASSIVE THERMAL INSERT FOR TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED TRAYS AND FOOD SERVICE COUNTERS - Temperature control is provided to food dispensing vessels like condiment dispensers that are too tall to be stored in a shallow, temperature-controlled tray or basin by using inclined or tilted, thermally-conductive tubes placed inside a temperature-controlled tray. Thermal insulating covers improve the thermal efficiency of the tubes. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100143556 | FOOD HEATING DEVICE - In one embodiment, a food heating device includes a first platen and a first conveyor arranged and spaced to transport a food product between the first platen ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100143557 | FOOD HEATING DEVICE - A food heating device includes a platen ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100143559 | FOOD HEATING DEVICE - One embodiment of a food heating device includes a platen ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100186423 | HOT OR COLD FOOD RECEPTACLE UTILIZING A PELTIER DEVICE WITH AIR FLOW TEMPERATURE CONTROL - A temperature controlled food storage unit is provided with a Peltier device ( | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100239724 | TOASTER WITH COOLING AIR STREAM - A method of toasting a food product like an English muffin irradiates the food product with infrared (IR) energy from an infrared energy source while simultaneously directing an unheated air stream toward the food product. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100307168 | THERMO-ELECTRIC COOLER - One or more piezoelectric devices cool or heat a thermally-conductive basin. The basin is sized, shaped and arranged to receive two or more food serving trays. In a preferred embodiment, the food serving trays are sized, shaped and arranged to provide an air gap between the tray and the thermally-conductive basin so that the tray is cooled by convection and radiation but not conduction. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110006652 | FOOD STORAGE UNIT WITH DRAWER HAVING IMPACT-ABSORBING SEAL - A drawer seal includes a magnetic coupler, a bellows filled or substantially filled with a vibration dampening material and which is affixed to either a drawer or cabinet by a base member. The base member can be embodied as a dart that extends into a hole formed into the drawer or cabinet. A refrigerated food storage cabinet includes a self-closing drawer provided with the drawer seal whereby the drawer is less likely to rebound open. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110059210 | BREAD PRODUCT EDGE TOASTING SHIELD - Edges of English muffins and certain other types of bread products known to burn during toasting are protected from burning by a bread product edge toasting shield. One embodiment of the bread product edge shield is a baffle formed of orthogonal or substantially orthogonal metal strips. A second embodiment is a cylindrical tube. The edge toasting shield blocks infrared energy waves that would otherwise be incident upon the bread product edges at angles of incidence less than about eighty degrees relative to horizontal. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110162537 | FOOD PRODUCT STEAMER - A food product steamer includes rotatable platforms that can be covered and uncovered by one or more rotatable, concave hoods. In a first position for the platform(s), the platform(s) supports a food product over a steam-emitting opening above a steam generator. In a first position for the hood, the hood covers the food product such that steam from the steam generator is trapped within the hood to steam the food product. In a second, open position, the hood is rotated where it can receive the food product when the food product slides or falls off the platform as the platform is rotated from its first position to a second, elevated position. At least one embodiment enables food products to be removed from either side of the steam generating base by using a double-acting hinge. | 07-07-2011 |
