A21C 9/088
Folding or bending discrete dough pieces or dough strips
Official title: {Folding or bending discrete dough pieces or dough strips (twisting strips of dough A21C3/08; with filling action A21C9/063; forming toroid-shaped dough pieces A21C11/002)}
A21C9/088 (Folding or bending discrete dough pieces or dough strips) appears on 62 US grants and 59 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A21C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for aligning and bending individual round elongated dough pieces29US 5,354,571 ARheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd. · 1994
- Method and apparatus for making shaped shells for hors d'oeuvres, snacks and the like, and food articles prepared thereby19US 3,963,402 AFairmont Foods Company · 1976
- Method for forming an edible food container16US 4,795,652 ACooper Concepts, Inc. · 1989
- Method and device for aligning and bending individual round elongated dough pieces16US 5,382,154 ARheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Machine for forming croissants or other elongated products15US 4,582,472 A1986