DR. EDWARD L BAKER, M.D.
Radiology at Buchanan St, San Francisco, CA

4121509, Oct 24, 1978

Jan 10, 1977

5/758025

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

N.P.I. Corporation - Burlingame CA

A47J 3704, A47J 3708

99386

A controlled atmosphere broiler has a horizontal tunnel mounted on a frame and enclosing one run of a continuous, open-work conveyor traveling from an inlet end toward an outlet end. An air fan near the inlet end supplies air through a supply air duct to nozzles near the outlet end and discharging into the tunnel, both from above and from below, toward the conveyor. The supply air duct air is heated and provided with hot water vapor. The air is further heated by infrared heaters in the tunnel above and below the conveyor. Infrared radiation is reflected toward the conveyor by a reflector, preferably a common wall between the tunnel and the supply air duct. Air from the tunnel is aspirated through a return air duct by the fan. There is a damper control vent from the tunnel to the atmosphere, and air flow in the supply air duct is also controlled by a damper. The conveyor is supported by water-cooled cross tubes, and there is a drain pan below the conveyor.

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.

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.

4151791, May 1, 1979

Jan 23, 1978

5/871245

Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA

NPI Corporation - Burlingame CA

A47J 3706

99339

An energy conserving broiler has a frame supporting a housing having a patty opening and a bun opening therein. The upper run of an endless conveyor is disposed adjacent the patty opening. Two arrays of spaced heater elements are on the frame above and below the upper run of the conveyor. Radiant heat reflecting partitions are disposed between the elements of each array and double wall radiant heat reflectors are disposed above and below the two arrays. A deflector wall is positioned between one of the arrays and the patty feed opening. A bun conveyor is on the frame near the bun feed opening. A bun heater is above the bun conveyor. A patty receiving device for reflecting heat upwardly is disposed between the heater element array below the upper run of the conveyor and the bun heater.

4103605, Aug 1, 1978

Jan 17, 1977

5/760162

Goeran Hemborg - Aengelholm, SE
Winje Green - Helsingborg, SE
Nils Lang-ree - Los Altos CA
Edward D. Baker - San Francisco CA

N.P.I. Corporation - Burlingame CA

A47J 3700

99345

A device for cooking meatballs has a frame supporting an open-ended drum for rotation on the frame about a substantially horizontal axis. The drum is open at both its inlet end and its outlet end and has for part of its length an outer wall together with the inner wall forming a jacket. Heating oil is brought into the jacket through an axial rotary joint and discharged from the jacket through a similar axial rotary joint. Within the drum is a plurality of helical fins spaced apart circumferentially. The fins are of a sufficient height to propel axially of the drum meatballs introduced thereto through the inlet end and to carry the meatballs to the outlet end for discharge therethrough. Extending axially a short distance away from the inner wall and preferably carried by adjacent portions of the fins are tumbling bars. These are effective to lift and release the meatballs.

4281594, Aug 4, 1981

Jul 26, 1979

6/061055

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

NPI Corporation - Burlingame CA

A47J 3708

99386

A bun section toaster, in the usual case, has a frame supporting several parallel chain conveyors, each conveyor being effective to advance a related bun section through the frame in physical and thermal contact with a heating element on the frame to toast the top of the adjacent bun section. At least one of the conveyors, especially for a bun section from the bun center, receives and advances a tray having an aperture over which the bun center section lies. A radiant heating element on the frame is in position to radiate upwardly through the aperture onto the bottom of the center bun section so both sides of the section are toasted simultaneously. In the usual case, the toaster simultaneously accommodates a bun top section, center section and bottom section, although in some instances there is but a single conveyor and but the center section is handled.

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.

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.