Dca Food Industries, Inc.

Kurt Wallenfels

Harold B Kaufman, Jr

John P McCarthy

John P McCarthy, Iv

Howard Roth

Peter R Baldry

Bernard J Entner

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 for repeatably forming shaped dough bodies having a filling. A generally cylindrical filling forming mechanism, in communication with a pressurized source of filling material, is contained within and is surrounded by a generally cylindrical dough forming mechanism in communication with a pressurized source of dough. The filling forming mechanism includes an inner chamber which receives the filling material, means defining a filling material transporting channel extending around the circumference of the filling forming mechanism which channel can be selectively opened to permit the filling material to flow out of it, and a generally cylindrical shell member which is mounted to obstruct the filling material transporting channel and which includes a plurality of shaped filling forming orifices in its periphery. The dough forming mechanism has dough forming orifices in its periphery which are aligned with corresponding filling forming orifices in the shell member of the filling forming mechanism. Means are provided for opening and closing the filling material transporting channel and dough forming orifices in timed relationship to produce the shaped, filled bodies.

Apparatus for forming a variety of shaped bodies with an internal filling

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Jackson Heights, NY, United States of America

Kurt Wallenfels