Gehl Foods, LLC

Wki Holding Company, Inc.

Sunbeam Products, Inc.

David Mucci

Thomas Mitchell

Paul D Hatch

Anders Olof Rostlund

Clifford Krapfl

Julia B Burke

Michael Sowieja

Christoph Albiez

Michael Gehl

Augusto A Picozza

Marianne Grisdale

Siarhei Murauyou

Linda Makhanlall

A dispenser for dispensing a flowable food product from a flexible reservoir supported by the dispenser is provided. The dispenser includes a frame and a body coupled to the frame. The body defines a cavity for receiving the flexible reservoir. The body includes: a bottom wall defining an opening; a sloped wall extending upward from the bottom wall and the opening, the sloped wall promoting a flow of flowable food product from the flexible reservoir towards the opening; and a pair of side walls extending upward from the bottom wall and the sloped wall. The dispenser further includes a fitment acceptor at least partly received in the opening. Additionally, a shape of the fitment acceptor corresponds with a shape of the opening such that the fitment acceptor is only correctly received in the opening one way.

Food product dispenser and valve

Food dispenser

A system for dispensing a flowable food product from a reservoir is provided. A wall of the reservoir defines an aperture therethrough allowing the flowable food product to exit the reservoir. The system includes a valve having a base member having a first passageway extending therethrough and a moving member having a second passageway extending therethrough, the moving member configured to slide relative to the base member between a closed position in which the first passageway and the second passageway do not overlap and an open position in which the first passageway and the second passageway overlap. When the moving member is in the open position, an axis extending through the first passageway and the second passageway extends through the aperture in the reservoir.

A system for dispensing a flowable food product from a reservoir is provided. The system includes a fitment coupled to the reservoir and a piercing tool having a handle, a neck, and a piercing section, wherein the neck interconnects the handle with the piercing section. The piercing section is configured to create an opening in the reservoir through the fitment to enable dispensing of the flowable product.

A knife for cutting food products having a proximal end, a distal end and a length defined therebetween. The knife includes a blade portion having a cutting edge and a spine disposed on a top side of the blade portion and generally opposed to the cutting edge. The knife includes a handle portion disposed proximal of the blade portion with a top surface and a bottom surface, a first end proximal to the blade portion and a second end distal to the blade portion. The handle portion includes a bolster section with at least a first thickness, a first lateral sidewall and a second lateral sidewall. The bolster section is disposed at the first end of the handle portion and adjacent to the blade portion. The first sidewall of the bolster section includes an arcuate proximal bolster boundary defined by a curvilinear ridge extending downwardly toward the blade portion from a point proximate the top surface of the handle portion. The first sidewall of the bolster section also includes an arcuate distal bolster boundary being defined by a curvilinear ridge extending downwardly toward the blade portion from a point proximate the bottom surface of the handle portion. A portion of the curvilinear ridge defining the arcuate proximal bolster boundary is spaced a distance along the length of the knife from a portion of the curvilinear ridge defining the arcuate distal boundary. A surface depression is formed in at least one of the first lateral sidewall and the second lateral sidewall, the surface depression being disposed between the curvilinear ridge defining the arcuate proximal bolster boundary.

Cutlery having improved gripping ergonomics

Cutlery handle

Coffee maker

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David Mucci