A23G 1/206
Apparatus for laying down material in moulds or drop-by-drop on a surface
Official title: {Apparatus for laying down material in moulds or drop-by-drop on a surface, optionally with associated heating, cooling, portioning, cutting cast-tail or anti-drip device}
A23G1/206 (Apparatus for laying down material in moulds or drop-by-drop on a surface) appears on 45 US grants and 51 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A23G- Granted patents
- 45
- Published applications
- 51
- Assignees
- 36
- Inventors
- 132
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Apparatus and method for dosing and feeding a fluid or pasty mixture into moulds, in particular a chocolate-based mixture18 Aug 2026US 12,708,123 B2Soremartec S.A.
- Ohmic-heating printhead for 3D printer23 Dec 2025US 12,502,832 B2Ecole Nationale Veterinaire Agroalimentaire Et De L'alimentation Nantes Atlantique
- Apparatus for depositing5 Aug 2025US 12,376,603 B2Societe des Produits Nestle S. A.
- Print head for printing a food product layer-by-layer and a system comprising a print head12 Nov 2024US 12,137,702 B2Byflow B.V.
- System for conveying and dispensing heated food material22 Aug 2023US 11,730,174 B2Nordson Corporation
- Method and apparatus for producing hollow products made of a foodstuff material that can be formed in a mould27 Nov 2025US 2025/0359568 A1Soremartec S.A.
- Ohmic-heating printhead for 3d printer7 Nov 2024US 2024/0365796 A1Ecole Nationale Veterinaire Agroalimentaire Et De L'alimentation Nantes Atlantique
- Apparatus and method for dosing and feeding a fluid or pasty mixture into moulds, in particular a chocolate-based mixture7 Sep 2023US 2023/0276821 A1Soremartec S.A.
- Apparatus for depositing8 Dec 2022US 2022/0386642 A1Societe des Produits Nestle S. A.
- Tempered Chocolate Depositing Device29 Sep 2022US 2022/0304327 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of producing patterned compound food and production system used for the method29US 6,660,317 B1Akutagawa Confectionery Co., Ltd. · 2003
- Automotive and aerospace materials in a continuous, pressurized mold filling and casting machine21US 6,637,497 B22003
- Method of and apparatus for cutting tails of viscous material16US 5,102,599 AGeneral Electric Company · 1992
- Rotary piston forming machine for chocolate12US 4,538,978 ACarle & Montanari S.p.A. · 1985
- Methods and apparatus for chocolate dispensers11US 6,860,788 B2Shoot the Moon Products II, LLC · 2005