Dca Food Industries, Inc.

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Daco LLC

Wildcat Capital LLC

John P McCarthy, Iv

David A Cohen

Harold B Kaufman, Jr

Kurt Wallenfels

Bernard J Entner

A ladder safety device, systems and methods of arresting falls from ladders are provided. The ladder safety device includes a safety guide that extends along the length of an extension ladder. The length of the guide along the length of the ladder extends and contracts in unison with the extension and retraction of the extension ladder, and a tension is maintained on the guide to maintain a load during use of the ladder for climbing.

Ladder safety device, systems and methods of arresting falls from ladders

Process and apparatus are provided for rapidly stabilizing a food product. The stabilization may take the form of either fixing or glueing a coating to the food product, treating the surface thereof to impart a particularly desired property such as rigidity or shape retention to the end product after further treatment thereof, cooking the entire product or a combination thereof. The product to be treated is moved through one or more processing chambers wherein it is contacted only by superheated steam, air having been excluded from the chambers. Saturated steam is supplied in a non-superheated condition at atmospheric pressure and remains substantially at atmospheric pressure throughout its movement through the apparatus. The steam is superheated within the chambers by the use of heating elements located within the chambers. By supplying the chambers with more steam than is sorbed by the food product during its treatment, air is effectively excluded from the chambers. In a preferred embodiment, two main product treatment chambers are arranged in tandem with the steam within the chambers capable of being automatically maintained at different pre-selected temperatures to process the food products differently in each chamber.

Method of fixing an edible coating to a food product

An apparatus is provided for forming a plastic food material into bodies having an arcuate top and a flat bottom. The apparatus includes a cylindrical nozzle body for receiving the food material from a pressurized source. In the periphery of the nozzle body is included a food material forming orifice having a plane lower bounding surface contiguous thereto which lies within the nozzle body in a plane inclined downward towards the exterior of the nozzle body. A cutter sleeve is mounted on the nozzle body and moved relative to it to selectively cover and uncover the orifice. The apparatus imparts a curved contour to the top of the pressurized food material escaping from the orifice, while the inclined plane lower bounding surface imparts a flat bottom to the material.

Apparatus for forming bodies with an arcuate top and a flat bottom

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New York, NY, United States of America

John P McCarthy, Iv