Edward L Baker Deceased5328 Stonewall Pl, Brentwood, TN 37027

4189196, Feb 19, 1980

Jun 12, 1978

5/914358

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA
Nils Lang-Ree - Los Altos CA

NPI Corporation - Burlingame CA

A47B 7708
F25B 2900

312236

A staging cabinet and tray combination especially for use with hamburger buns has an open front cabinet including solid metallic top, bottom, back and side walls abutting each other at right angles and having a plurality of horizontal ledges secured to the side walls at selected vertical intervals, the ledges on one side wall being at the same height as the corresponding ledges on the other side wall. Cooperating with the ledges are trays each supportable at a selected height in the cabinet by a pair of the ledges. Each tray includes a rectangular metallic sheet having downturned flanges along opposite side edges of the sheet, the flanges being slidable on the ledges and being bottom notched to reduce heat transfer and allow air flow. The rectangular sheet itself has ribs along the transverse front and rear edges, each rib having an inner wall upstanding from the sheet and then having an outer wall extending downwardly from the inner wall far enough to afford a gripping portion. The sheet also has upstanding from its upper surface a plurality of grouped bosses for supporting buns, each of the bosses preferably having a central perforation.

4936286, Jun 26, 1990

Nov 8, 1989

7/433554

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA

Nieco Corporation, a division of Alco Standard Corporation - Burlingame CA

F24C 300

126 41R

A gas fired broiler having a plurality of burners adjacent to multiple conveyors with a shield on at least one of the burners in the area of one of the conveyors.

4182231, Jan 8, 1980

Jun 26, 1978

5/919389

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA
Nils Lang-Ree - Los Altos CA
John S. Brown - Half Moon Bay CA

NPI Corporation - Burlingame CA

A47J 3706

99387

A frozen patty feeder for a group of individual patties and especially for use with a broiler having a horizontal conveyor run advancing in a predetermined direction includes a first upstanding wall extending transversely of the direction of conveyor advance with the lower margin of the first wall spaced above the conveyor run an amount only slightly more than the thickness of an individual frozen patty. The feeder also includes a second wall extending transversely of the direction of conveyor advance and disposed between a level about even with that of the conveyor and a somewhat higher level, the second wall being inclined in the direction of conveyor advance when considered from the top of the wall downwardly, the first and second walls being spaced apart far enough in the direction of advance to admit of patties of a predetermined diameter when the patties are superimposed upon each other in a staggered, shingled or offset fashion.

4444094, Apr 24, 1984

Sep 24, 1982

6/422893

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA
Nils Lang-Ree - Los Altos CA
John S. Brown - Half Moon Bay CA

Taylor Freezer Company - Rockton IL

A47J 3700
A47J 3704
A47J 3708

99327

A frame supports a cross-bar conveyor for advancement over a hamburger patty feeding plate and between upper and lower heated platens. The upper platen is raised by actuators and falls by gravity against adjustable stops in time with advancement of the conveyor. At the discharge end of the conveyor a guide assists in directing a discharging hamburger patty onto a receiving grate.

4506652, Mar 26, 1985

Jan 6, 1984

6/568784

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA
Nils Lang-Ree - Los Altos CA
Ralph K. Johnson - Palo Alto CA

Nieco Corporation - Burlingame CA

A21B 144

126 21A

An oven for heating foodstuffs, i. e. cooking pizza, has a heated enclosure substantially L-shape in plan to leave an exposed sector. A rotor is turned intermittently by power to carry pizzas from the exposed sector, through the heated enclosure and back to the exposed sector. In the heated enclosure the pizzas are baked by a stream of heated and reheated air circulated in a closed path.

4179985, Dec 25, 1979

Oct 19, 1978

5/952631

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA
Nils Lang-Ree - Los Altos CA
John S. Brown - Half Moon Bay CA

NPI Corporation - Burlingame CA

A47J 3704

99339

A cooking and assembly unit is primarily for use in the quantity production of sandwiches, such as hamburger sandwiches including a patty, a bun crown and a bun heel. The unit includes a storage compartment for a number of individual trays each carrying one or more bun heels or bun crowns. The storage compartment is related to a bun grill including a conveyor for trays carrying heels and another conveyor for trays carrying crowns. Both conveyors advance in a predetermined direction and deliver the heel trays and the crown trays to a downstream, exit end of the bun grill. From there the loaded trays are received on an entrance table at the upstream end of a product conditioning tunnel mounted on a straddle frame. The conditioning tunnel is heated and is supplied with steam to hold its contents in a selected atmosphere. A freezer compartment having an access opening to patties stored therein is disposed beneath the straddle frame and adjacent the entrance to the conditioning tunnel.

4188868, Feb 19, 1980

Sep 18, 1978

5/942922

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA
Nils Lang-Ree - Los Altos CA
John S. Brown - Half Moon Bay CA

NPI Corporation - Burlingame CA

A47J 3704

99386

Some commercial broilers have a conveyor extending through the broiler from an entrance opening to an exit opening and have a plurality of burner housings, including end burner housings, arranged above the conveyor and spaced apart with respect to each other and particularly with respect to the entrance opening and the exit opening to leave gaps. To conserve heat, the passageway through the broiler above the conveyor is herein restricted by baffles including an entrance shield of heat-reflecting material formed as a channel frictionally fitting over the entrance burner housing and having a baffle sheet extending from the entrance burner housing through most of the gap toward the entrance opening. Also included is an exit shield of similar material formed as a similar channel fitting over the exit burner housing and having a baffle sheet extending from the exit burner housing through most of the gap toward the exit opening. Further, there is an intermediate shield including a horizontal sheet of similar material resting on adjacent burner housings and having a vertical sheet depending from said horizontal sheet.

D258711, Mar 31, 1981

Apr 3, 1978

5/893135

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA
Nils Lang-Ree - Los Altos CA

NPI Corporation - Burlingame CA

D0799

D 7 37