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US 11,589,606 B1Granted
Apparatus and methods for making food products with improved heating components
AssigneeBFY Brands, LLC
InventorSteven Van Poucke
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods for making puffed food products are disclosed. In one implementation, an innovative process, apparatus, or system may employ at least one base mold with a defined pattern of one or more surface cavities carved therein in order to more evenly or uniformly distribute heat to raw ingredients or an intermediate food product during baking step(s).
Claims15
A pressure-molding apparatus for making a food product, comprising:
- at least one heatable mold which defines a mold cavity and has at least one movable mold element;
- a driving system coupled to the at least one movable mold element and configured to move the at least one movable mold element relative to the mold cavity;
- a heater plate having a transverse direction and configured to provide heat across the entire transverse direction toward at least one base mold that is sandwiched between the heater plate and punches that are configured to contact raw material, wherein the at least one base mold has a first surface with at least two peripheral edges abutting the heater plate and including at least one surface cavity of a defined geometry that is centrally located and facing the heater plate and configured to promote a uniform distribution of heat across said at least one base mold;
- a raw material supply system that transports the raw material into the mold cavity;
- and
- a control unit configured to control at least one of said driving system, said at least one heatable mold, and said raw material supply system to process said raw material into a puffed food product.
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A system for making a food product, comprising:
- one or more pressure-molding apparatuses, each of the pressure-molding apparatuses including:
- at least one heatable mold which defines a mold cavity and has at least one movable mold element;
- a driving system coupled to the at least one movable mold element and configured to move the at least one movable mold element relative to the mold cavity;
- a heater plate having a transverse direction and configured to provide heat across the entire transverse direction toward at least one base mold that is sandwiched between the heater plate and punches that are configured to contact raw material, wherein the at least one base mold has a first surface with at least two peripheral edges abutting the heater plate and including at least one surface cavity of a defined geometry that is centrally located and facing the heater plate and configured to promote a uniform distribution of heat across said at least one base mold;
- a raw material supply system that transports the raw material into the mold cavity;
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- a control unit configured to control at least one of said driving system, said at least one heatable mold, and said raw material supply system to process said raw material into a puffed food product.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.