Tony J Thomas

US Patent:

6526908, Mar 4, 2003

Filed:

Apr 13, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/834320

Inventors:

James J. Gardner - Lancaster OH
Mark A. Brick - Pickerington OH
Allan Hopkins - Columbus OH
Tony Thomas - Worthington OH
Ty Tomlinson - Reynoldsburg OH
Dave Petty - Pickerington OH

Assignee:

J. E. Grote Company, Inc. - Blacklick OH

International Classification:

A23P 108

US Classification:

118 16, 118 20, 118 22, 118 23, 118 52, 118 56, 118315, 118313, 118320

Abstract:

A machine for applying sauce to a pizza crust rapidly and accurately. The crust is placed on a turntable, is centered by stationary platforms having terraced surfaces, and the turntable raises the crust to beneath a plurality of nozzles. The nozzles are mounted to cylinder blocks in which cylindrical cavities are formed. Pistons are slidably mounted in the cavities, and are drivingly linked to a linear prime mover to be displaced upwardly and downwardly to pump sauce into and out of the cavities. Check valves control the flow of sauce from the source of sauce to the crust through the nozzles. The pistons are selectively linked to the linear prime mover for reducing the area onto which the sauce is dispensed, for accommodating smaller and larger pizza crusts.

US Patent:

6598519, Jul 29, 2003

Filed:

Oct 24, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/182989

Inventors:

Tony L. Thomas - Worthington OH
William W. Wharton - Lancaster OH

Assignee:

J. E. Grote Company, Inc. - Columbus OH

International Classification:

A23L 100

US Classification:

99494, 994501, 994507, 118 16, 118 24, 118 25

Abstract:

A particulate, such as grated cheese, distributor for breaking up and distibuting clumps of cheese over a defined surface of a tiltable conveyor ( ). The distributor includes a housing ( ) with a throat axle ( ), with a plurality of radial paddles ( ), is positioned at the lower end of the throat to strike and break up the clumps of cheese in the charge and distribute the cheese over a wide area. The cheese particles follow trajectories that include a plurality of downwardly extending stationary rods ( ) spaced radially outwardly of the axle, and a shroud ( ) spaced radially outwardly of the stationary rods.

US Patent:

7600459, Oct 13, 2009

Filed:

Sep 21, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/231702

Inventors:

Todd L. Bodey - Springfield OH, US
Tony L. Thomas - Worthington OH, US
David J. Petty - Johnstown OH, US

Assignee:

J. E. Grote Company, Inc. - Columbus OH

International Classification:

B23D 53/00
B23B 13/08

US Classification:

83788, 30380

Abstract:

A food slicing machine using a linear servo motor to reciprocate a carriage holding food products through a path that includes a slicing blade. The slicing apparatus is a modular apparatus that can be mounted to and removed from slicing machines as a unit without the need for disassembly of the components of the slicing apparatus. An adjustment mechanism for the blade guide uses two shafts that extend from a bearing plate into a finger that is mounted to the blade guide. The lower shaft has a cam nut that displaces the finger about the upper shaft to bend the blade guide. There is also an adjustment mechanism for the idler pulley of the band blade apparatus.

Address:

1279 Byron Ave, Columbus, OH 43227

VIN:

3D4GG57V69T505147

Make:

DODGE

Model:

JOURNEY

Year:

2009