A21C 3/08
Machines for twisting strips of dough
Official title: Machines for twisting strips of dough, e.g. for making pretzels
A21C3/08 (Machines for twisting strips of dough) appears on 55 US grants and 31 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A21C- Granted patents
- 55
- Published applications
- 31
- Assignees
- 30
- Inventors
- 86
- Latest grant
- 18 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Device for twisting pieces of dough18 Nov 2025US 12,471,601 B2Fritsch Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
- Continuous soft pretzel apparatus and method17 Jun 2025US 12,329,168 B1
- Braided soft pretzel apparatus and method29 Apr 2025US 12,285,020 B1
- Apparatus, method for making a pastry in the shape of a cone, and said pastry6 Jun 2023US 11,666,064 B2Samvaz S.A.
- Device and method for forming dough pieces15 Nov 2022US 11,497,219 B2Fritsch Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
- Continuous soft pretzel apparatus and method11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157379 A1
- Device for Twisting Dough Pieces3 Apr 2025US 2025/0107534 A1
- Device for twisting pieces of dough23 Mar 2023US 2023/0093732 A1Fritsch Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
- Device For Applying Scatterable Material6 Oct 2022US 2022/0312777 A1KöNig Maschinen Gesellschaft M.B.H.
- Method of forming a twisted product8 Sep 2022US 2022/0279800 A1Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for forming extruded ice confections and products formed thereby77US 4,504,511 AThomas J. Lipton, Inc. · 1985
- Extrusion apparatus61US 4,913,645 ANestec S. A. · 1990
- Die assembly for extruding edible substances43US 5,670,185 ANestec S. A. · 1997
- Method of making pretzels of selected spiral pitch39US 4,288,463 A1981
- Method and apparatus for manufacturing coextruded food products34US 5,492,706 AUnilever Patent Holdings B.V. · 1996