Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Assembling plural edible preforms having extraneous binder,... – Dough is preform
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-08
2001-05-01
Cano, Milton (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Assembling plural edible preforms having extraneous binder,...
Dough is preform
C426S093000, C426S518000, C099S430000, C099S439000, C099S537000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06224928
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to the preparation of sandwiches.
Submarine and other sandwiches are typically prepared at a deli or sandwich shop by placing a bottom piece of bread or roll half on a counter-top or the like, placing meats, cheeses, lettuce, tomato slices, and other items as desired on top thereof, placing another piece of bread or roll half thereon, cutting the sandwich into two or more pieces, and wrapping it for delivery to the customer. The tendency of the sandwich fillings to fall off during the making of a sandwich in this manner can result in waste of filling material and inefficiencies due to having to keep the filling material from falling off. In addition, more effort is required to keep the counter-top clean.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,873,920 to Bemis discloses a sandwich assembling device wherein a plurality of sandwich fillings are assembled end-to-end on a trough member which has a floor, a pair of sidewalls, and open ends and top. A bun is mounted on one end of the trough member, and, by use of the member indicated at
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in Bemis, a sandwich filling is slid into the bun. Also see U.S. Pat. No. 1,807,189 also to Bemis. This process undesirably is difficult and cumbersome, requires more than one part, and the sandwich must still be laid on a counter-top or the like for cutting thereof in half.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,994,213 to Brezinski discloses a sandwich warming and preparation pan comprising a thin rectangular metal sheet with contiguous angular corrugations open at the tops and ends and each holding a single sandwich while it is being made. At
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thereof is illustrated top and bottom bread portions lying on the respective inclined walls of a corrugation in position to receive sandwich filling. It should be noted that the inclined walls, while serving to hold the bread, are not disclosed as serving as restraints to the filling falling off the sandwich in preparation. The sandwiches must of course undesirably be placed on a counter-top or other flat surface for cutting thereof in half.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,499,578 to Payne discloses a sausage cutter having a pair of hingedly connected parts which, when together, define a bore there through for receiving a sausage. A plurality of pairs of vertical slits are contained in the parts respectively, and a knife is inserted in a pair of the slits to cut the sausage. Members with cylindrical walls having vertical slits have been provided for receiving and cutting bagels in half.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,925,110 to Bayers discloses a knife guide which is placed over a prepared sandwich and which has crossing vertical slits therein for receiving a knife for cutting the sandwich into quarters. See also U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,277,888 to Segal and 2,057,250 to Sanger.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,567,455 to Alsbrook, Sr. discloses a method of making a salad sandwich wherein the sandwich is made of a baked edible shell that is open at one end and contains a tear-away bag that is filled with a sandwich fill. To eat the sandwich, the bag is removed from around the fill, leaving the fill in the sandwich.
The above art does not disclose an efficient and easy method for making a sandwich.
It is accordingly an object of the present invention to make a sandwich efficiently and easily.
It is another object of the present invention to also maintain the surface on which the sandwich is made clean.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide an article for making the sandwich which is rugged, easy to use, reliable, and inexpensive to manufacture.
In order to efficiently and easily make a sandwich, in accordance with the present invention, the sandwich is stacked within an article having a floor, a pair of side walls, and an open top and open ends.
In order to allow the sandwich to be cut into parts after it is stacked without removing it from the article, the article has at least one pair of vertical slots in its walls respectively for receiving a knife blade.
The above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will be apparent in the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein the same reference numerals depict the same or similar parts throughout the several views.
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Cano Milton
Simmons James C.
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