Foods and beverages: apparatus inventions 06/07

20070144355 - Methods and device for the preparation of a food product: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a drink by injection of a liquid thorugh a capsule, containing a food substance which is soluble and/or for extraction, whereby the liquid is injected from at least one injection point, such as to generate a turbulent movement of injected... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070144356 - Package assembly for forming beverage pods: A compact and lightweight personal pod making system is provided. The pod making system has a base for receiving a pod packaging material and a sealing tool pivotably connected to the base. The system can be used at home, in the office and even outdoors. A pod package assembly that... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070144357 - Systems and methods for forming pre-packaged brewing material: A compact and lightweight personal pod making system is provided. The pod making system has a base for receiving a pod packaging material and a sealing tool pivotably connected to the base. The system can be used at home, in the office and even outdoors. A pod package assembly that... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070144358 - Food stirrer: A food stirrer includes a seat and a container. A driving axle extends through the seat. A bushing is provided outside the driving axle. The driving axle has a brake device for quickly stopping the rotation of the driving axle when a motor is powered off. A spring is provided... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070144359 - Apparatus, system, and method for making sandwiches: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for making sandwiches. A bladeless sandwich making apparatus is provided with lower and upper tools having sandwich receiving cavities configured to accommodate sandwich ingredients and a mechanism for mounting configured to operate as a hinge and as a handle. Bread layers and filling... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070137492 - Drink maker: A drink maker for processing foodstuff and dispensing the processed foodstuff therefrom. A base encloses a motor and a jar including a first recirculation surface is removably mountable to the base. A processing cup including a second recirculation surface is removably mountable to the jar and the jar and processing... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070137493 - Beverage maker with adjustable brew chamber: A beverage maker for brewing a beverage from water and a quantity of particle material includes a water supply structure (7, 9, 11, 45), a brewing chamber (13) downstream of the water supply structure (7, 9, 11, 45), and a dispensing channel (19; 37) downstream of the brewing chamber (13).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070137494 - Beverage making devices and methods with an inner housing in place of a central rod plunger: A beverage making device for making a beverage from a liquid and a beverage making material includes an outer housing, an inner housing, and a filter member. The outer housing is configured to hold a mixture of the liquid and the beverage making material. The inner housing is configured to... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20070137495 - Coffee maker with grinder: A coffee maker may include a reservoir section and a grinding section coupled to the reservoir section. The reservoir section and the grinding section are may be included in an internal volume of a container. A grinder is disposed in the grinding section. The coffee maker includes a filter between... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070137496 - Filling and/or change monitoring method in a cooking device and cooking device with filling and/or charge monitoring: A filling and/or charge-amount-monitoring method for a reservoir for storage of a fluid in a cooking device with an inner casing, including a cooking chamber with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a ventilation device with a fan inside the inner casing, for the circulation of a part of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070137497 - Convection fryer with convenient filter and oil treatment provisions: A fry cooker uses a flow of cooking oil or other medium during the cooking operation to strain out or screen particles that cause degradation of the cooking oil or medium. There are several configurations of the fryer that achieve this result. One is a fryer with a first coarse... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070137498 - Portable cooking unit assembly: A portable rotisserie cooking unit assembly having a first support base providing an electric drive motor and a second support base for supporting a rotating cooking spit driven by the electric drive motor. The cooking unit also includes physical features which allow the first and second pyramid support bases to... Agent: Joseph S. Heino, Esq. Davis & Kuelthau, S.c.

20070137499 - Cooking appliance with removable cooking surface: An electric cooking appliance having a removable food support member and a base that supports a heating element and the food support member is provided. The appliance includes a plurality of handles that selectively engage the food support member to secure it to the base. The cooking appliance allows for... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070137500 - Nano-silver infused container arrangements: Nano-silver infused container arrangements are presented including: a nano-silver infused container body defining at least one opening; and a nano-silver infused container lid configured to close off the at least one opening. In some embodiments, the arrangement is a composition of a polymeric compound and a concentration of nano-silver particles.... Agent: John Nielsen Randick O'dea & Tooliatos, LLP

20070137501 - Oven rack grilling apparatus and method of use thereof: An oven rack grilling apparatus combining an oven rack with a grilling basket, wherein the grilling basket is disposed within an aperture of a standard-sized oven rack. The rear portion of the oven rack is suitable for grilling larger portions of food, while the grilling basket may contain smaller food... Agent: Myers & Kaplan, Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20070137502 - Multiple phase confectionery article and system and method for preparing same: The present disclosure set forth a multiple phase confectionery article and methods and apparatus for producing the article. The confectionery article includes at least two strands of confectionery material, each confectionery material having a visually different property. Each strand extends across the width and through the thickness of the confectionery... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070137503 - Pellet-fired smoke generator: An apparatus for generating smoke is provided. The apparatus includes a hopper chamber that is adapted to receive pellet fuel and a smoke chamber that is adapted to collect and emit smoke. It also includes a pellet burning assembly with ends adjacent each chamber. The pellet burning assembly includes openings... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20070137504 - Salad spinner: A salad spinner has a housing with a lid, a rotatable basket, and a drive mechanism in the lid for rotating the basket to spin water off salad in the basket. The drive mechanism has a manual actuator and a gear train for transmitting drive from the actuator to rotate... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070131117 - Apparatus for cooking pasta by steeping: Pastas and other foods are cooked by being steeped in a small volume of water added to an insulated vessel provided with a removable cover and strainer. The preferred embodiment of the cooking vessel is an insulated cylinder of translucent plastic. The cylinder walls and base are insulated. An open... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070131118 - Bar tool assembly: A bar tool set assembly for producing mixed beverages. The assembly includes a platform module adapted for housing and transposing a bar tool set. The housing having a form factor and appearance of a replica of a partially disassembled consumer or industrial product, whereas individual bar tools resemble portions of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070131119 - Coffee maker having a filter support incorporating a sieve: A filter support (23) for supporting a filter pad or such like in a coffee maker. The filter support (23) comprises a disc with a discharge opening (31) at its centre. On one surface (32) of the filter support (23) there are a plurality of support projections (33). When a... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070131121 - Drip coffee maker which does not require electricity to operate: A non-electric drip style coffee maker including a pot member having each of a handle member and a pouring spout. A basket like member for holding a filter having ground coffee disposed therein. Such basket like member includes at least one aperture formed through a bottom surface thereof for allowing... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20070131120 - Infuser assembly for preparing beverage in container with narrow opening: An infuser assembly adapted for preparation of an infused beverage in a container with a narrow opening. The infuser assembly includes an infuser having a membrane and an ingredient encapsulated therein. The ingredient is suitable for infusion of a substance into a liquid, and the infuser has an elongate shape... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070131122 - Powered baster: A powered baster for the acceptance, containment and distribution of basting fluid. The powered baster is characterized as having a housing, a plunger for longitudinal movement within the housing and a motor for controlling movement of the plunger. The motor is controlled externally of the housing with switching means for... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20070131123 - Single mold form fryer with product centering elements: A mold form fryer utilizing a top conveyor that transports snack pieces through a constant velocity oil stream without the need for a bottom mating mold or conveyor. Herein, the form fryer is provided with a top conveyor disposed above a fryer oil pan positioned longitudinally through the fryer. Uncooked... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20070125238 - Brewing and drinking receptacle: A receptacle, particularly a disposable brewing and drinking receptacle, comprises an outer cup, an inner cup nested within the outer cup an ingredient chamber located between mutually opposed bottom walls of the nested cups, and ports formed in the inner cup to permit flow of liquid between the ingredient chamber... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070125239 - Automatic grouping system for food products: An automated grouping system of bakery products increases a quantity of bakery products that may be fed to equipment having a larger processing capacity. The automated grouping system includes a supporting structure laterally arranged adjacent to a conveyor of bakery products. The structure includes two longitudinally-arranged lateral rails. Sliding supports,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070125240 - Pot cover caddy: A kitchen cooking apparatus which allows the cook a convenient area to place his or her cooking pot or pan covers during the cooking process or when not cooking, a place to store pot or pan covers. The device consists of a bottom and top which are hinged together, along... Agent: Ken Kasden

20070125241 - Pump-oil fryer: A pump-oil fryer, which includes a top-open housing 11; a container 10 with heater 6 and a basket 5 with filter mesh. A pump 9 is used to draw the oil onto the top of basket and spread evenly on the frying food. Then the oil returns to the oil... Agent: Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20070125242 - Machine for the production of groups of rolls of products: A machine for the production of groups of rolls of products, each group consisting of a plurality of products grouped together to constitute a format and wrapped and closed in a sheet of film. Along a feed line the machine comprises: a first unit for transporting the groups of products... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070125243 - Automatic marking system for bakery products: An automated marking system for bakery products may include a support structure disposed over a conveyor. Trays may be positioned on the conveyor. Dough balls that will form the bakery product may be disposed in cavities of the tray. Dough balls may be covered by a dough layer. The support... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070125244 - Citrus reamer and press: A reamer (50) for a citrus juicer (10) is formed from a plurality of ribs (53) including an upper profile and a lower profile. The ribs may be knife like to maximize juice extraction. Fruit may be brought into contact with the reamer by an actuating arm (70). The actuating... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.