294 results about "Food supply" patented technology

A dietetic scale and method for calculating and tracking nutritional content information. The scale includes a bar code reader for identifying a food product from its package, with food content data per unit weight of the product being retrieved from a database. The database is a compilation of standardized nutrition facts promulgated by the FDA or other authority for the food products, with the bar code being correlated with the food products by means of their individual UPC numbers. The scale cumulatively sends the nutritional content data for servings of food products consumed over a predetermined interval of time, and then compares the summed values with a predetermined goal that includes minimums and maximums for selected contents. The information may be outputted to a digital flashcard or other electronic storage media for subsequent retrieval and analysis.

A kit for the rapid detection of pathogens in food supplies. The kit includes a microspot device and one or more indicator reagents to be applied to a well of the microspot device. The employed indicator reagent produces a detectable change upon contact with a pathogen of interest. The microspot device is fabricated from a porous membrane, such as filter paper. A substantially continuous boundary composed of a low melting temperature solid is deposited within the porous membrane extending from the top of the membrane to the bottom of the membrane and defines the peripheral sides of the well. Additionally, a barrier is applied to the bottom of the membrane, thus defining the bottom of the well. The kit can further include growth media for enriching the pathogenic bacteria and instructions for use of the kit employing the microspot device and the one or more indicator reagents.

A pet feeder for dispensing a supply of pet food includes a food dish and a food storage reservoir. The food storage reservoir is disposed adjacent the food dish and is adapted for holding a supply of the food. A top wall and a floor define the reservoir. The food dish is defined by a sidewall and a floor and has an open top to allow pets access to the food dish. The reservoir floor and the food dish floor form a continuous and downwardly sloping floor to gravitally direct pet food from the storage reservoir into the food dish. An agitator is disposed inside the reservoir. The agitator includes an arm secured to a disc for stirring the food to reduce food stagnation inside said reservoir. A food level sensor is further included in the reservoir to alert the user when the food level in the reservoir is empty or is approaching empty.

The invention discloses large intelligent small-pot continuous automatic cooker equipment, and belongs to the technical field of intelligent robots for food and beverage service. The large intelligent small-pot continuous automatic cooker equipment achieves programming, automation and standardization of vegetable matching, cooking and cleaning of large quantities of food supply. According to the adopted technical scheme, the large intelligent small-pot continuous automatic cooker equipment comprises a vegetable storage cabinet, a left cooker, a right cooker and an intelligent control system, wherein the left cooker and the right cooker are symmetrically arranged and installed on the two sides of the vegetable storage cabinet, side dishes and seasonings in the vegetable storage cabinet are conveyed to the left cooker and the right cooker through belt conveyers to be stirred and fried fully automatically and mechanically, and the intelligent control system sets programs and carries out operation. The large intelligent small-pot continuous automatic cooker equipment is mainly used for places such as dining halls of enterprises, public institutions, schools and armies and fast food restaurants, where a lot of cooked food is required, full-automatic operation is achieved, the cooked food is delicious, and labor cost is reduced.

A method and system are provided for bundling primary goods or services offered by a first entity with secondary goods or services offered by a second entity. Using the system, lodging services (such as in the form of a lodging reservation) may be bundled with food (such as food or meal vouchers), whereby a customer may make a single reservation that includes a room reservation from a lodging provider and a food/meal voucher associated with a food services provider, such as for a single price. A method and system are also provided for issuing and redeeming value vouchers, such as upon presentation of a voucher by a customer to a food vendor.

The invention discloses a self-service fast food vending machine, which consists of five parts, namely a food supply storage system, a food heat-preservation and moisture-preservation system, a food heating system, an ordering and charging system and a food sorting and output system. The self-service fast food vending machine is connected with an external power supply by a power line; an operator pre-fills fast food; a heat-preservation and moisture-preservation environment is kept; a consumer finishes ordering operation and charging operation; the selected food is sorted and enters the food heating system; the food heating system is started; a temperature controller or a delay switch controls the food heating system, so the food which accords with edible conditions is output; self-service fast food is made and supplied; the food in the machine is required to be pre-cleared or processed into semi-finished products or finished products; and the supplied food can be diversified, and a packaging mode can be diversified. The invention has the advantages that: the self-service fast food vending machine can be simplified and can be manufactured into a coin-operated food heater; a heating function can be expanded, and safety and advertisement functions can be added; and the self-service fast food vending machine can be placed in crowded areas such as office buildings, industrial parks, stations, wharfs and business circles.

In space, wastes from humans, animals, and crops can be fully recycled by rearing maggots which will be nourishing feedstuff for feeding animals. These animals and their eggs combined with crop plants will be varied food for humans in space. Water and nutrition left in the residues remaining after rearing the maggots can be recycled and used to fertilize crop plants. Rearing maggots, animals, and crop plants provides a self-sufficient food regenerative system that enables humans to live and work in space on long term missions independent of food from earth.

The present invention relates to a method for controlling invertebrate pests which method comprises treating the pests, their food supply, their habitat or their breeding ground or a plant, seed, soil, area, material or environment in which the pests are growing or may grow, or the materials, plants, seeds, soils, surfaces or spaces to be protected from pest attack or infestation with a pesticidally effective amount of a pyrazole compound of formulae I or II or a salt or an N-oxide thereof, wherein A is a pyrazole radical of the formulae A1 or A2, wherein # denotes the binding; D is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic radical fused to the pyrazole moiety; R^p1, R^p2 and R^px are H, halogen, CN, NO₂, C₁-C₁₀-alkyl, C₂-C₁₀-alkenyl, C₂-C₁₀-alkynyl, etc.; n is 0 to 4; or two radicals R^px bound to the same ring-member may form an oxo substituent, or two radicals R^px bound to adjacent ring-members may form a 3- to 7-membered fused cyclic radical; B is N or CR⁴, wherein R⁴ is H, halogen, CN, NO₂, C₁-C₄-alkyl, C₁-C₄-haloalkyl, C₁-C₄-alkoxy, etc.; X¹ is S, O or NR^1a, wherein R^1a is H, C₁-C₁₀-alkyl, etc.; X² is O^2a, NR^2bR^2c or S(O)_mR^2d, wherein m is 0, 1 or 2; R^2a is C₁-C₄-alkyl, C₁-C₄-haloalkyl, C₃-C₆-cycloalkyl, etc.; R^2b, R^2c are H, C₁-C₄-alkyl, C₁-C₄-haloalkyl, C₃-C₆-cycloalkyl, etc.; R^2d is C₁-C₄-alkyl, C₁-C₄-haloalkyl, C₃-C₆-cycloalkyl, etc.; R¹ is H, CN, C₁-C₁₀-alkyl, C₁-C₁₀-haloalkyl, C₃-C₁₀-cycloalkyl, etc.; R², R³ and R⁵ are H, halogen, CN, NO₂, C₁-C₄-alkyl, C₁-C₄-haloalkyl, C₁-C₄-alkoxy, etc., to a method for protecting plant propagation material and/or the plants which grow threfrom, to plant propagation material comprising at least one compound of formulae I or II, to a method for treating or protecting and animal from infestation or infection by parasites, to novel pyrazole compounds of formulae I or II and agricultural composition containing those compounds.

An automated animal feeder may have a pair of traditional pet bowls, one for food and one for water, and the water bowl may be physically lifted and dumped on a timed schedule as the water bowl may be mounted upon a hinged plate which swings up to empty the water bowl at programmed intervals controlled by a programmed logic controller, and the water bowl may be refilled whenever the weight of the bowl is light enough to indicate that the bowl is not full. Food may be metered by means of a portion control hopper located beneath the food supply hopper. The programmed logic controller (PLC) allows the timing of feeding and watering to be controlled by the user.

A system and method monitor the progress of a meal and provide course menus in synchronization with the monitored progress of the meal. The system includes a menu application for retrieving course menus and sending them to a patron communicator located at a table in a restaurant. The patron communicator displays the course menu for viewing by the patrons seated at a table. When an attendant receives orders from the patrons, an attendant service indicator is activated to provide an attendant service signal to the patron communicator. The attendant service signal is provided to the menu application so the meal status may be updated and the next course menu corresponding to the updated meal status retrieved. The menu application may insert advertising in the course menus. The advertisements may also include special offers and discounts generated from food supply data so that dishes prepared with food approaching freshness expiration dates may be timely offered. In an alternative embodiment, the patron communicators may receive selection data for identifying menu items for an order so attendants may limit their presence at a table to the delivery of the ordered food.

Food service tongs and a mold and method for making them, the tongs having first and second arms connected to a fulcrum end, and first and second grasping ends on the arms disposed in a mutually opposing and spaced-apart relationship and moveable in a common plane to a closed position for grasping food there between, and a transverse bridge disposed proximate to the fulcrum end and extending from the first arm to the second arm, with a longitudinal rib extending from the transverse bridge to the fulcrum end, the flow path through the longitudinal rib section of the mold resulting in reduction or displacement of fault lines caused by abutting flow fronts during mold filling. Articles of the invention can be coated with a thin metallic layer to impart a metal-like appearance to these articles.

The invention discloses a safety control method and device of reception and departure train, especially relates to a transport business center safety control system. The invention comprises watcher control mainframe, safety control software, data base, exchanger, recorder, assistant watcher, signaler, patrolman, train examinator, car number, broadcasting room, watcher of passenger transport, waiting room, commodity inspection, water-supply of passenger transport, railroad grade crossing safety protection, exit, dispatching station, entry, luggage house, food supply and control subset, local area network. The watcher control mainframe is connected with the data base, recorder, exchanger, each control subset by local area network and the safety control software runs in the system. In the said invention, the computer system replaces the artificial reception and departure train. In order to ensure the safety system can automatically recognize the maloperation, the operation of post sites immediately reacts on the safety control special interface and each post site has voice cue system. The recorder can provide reliable foundation to the safety administration.

A device which has been designed and tested to improve the ease and cleanliness of transporting food portions from one place to another. The one-handed operation is simple and intuitive. Portions of food may be sliced from an original whole with the slicing edge and the cutting teeth on the spatula. Food portions may also be freed from being stuck to a serving plate or pan when the wedge shaped risers on the bottom of the spatula portion are slid underneath the food portion. A clamp bar operated by a thumb or a forefinger applies clamping pressure to the food portion while it is being transported, preventing the food from falling off of the spatula and eliminating the need for another device or the use of a finger of the server's other hand to insure that the food portion remains on the spatula while being moved. Especially useful for difficult to serve foods such as pizza, where cheese strings remain attached to the piece being removed and pull it from the spatula. Additionally, with pizza, the topping is not always firmly attached to the underlying crust and often will slide off of the crust with even a small amount of tilting away from level. This food serving device eliminates those two problems specifically associated with serving pizza type foods. This food serving device is the quickest and most sanitary means of serving food portions available and clearly advances the state of the art of spatulas as food serving devices. <heading lvl="1">CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS </heading> Not applicable.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of food supply, and provides a food supply system, a device and a method. The food supply system comprises the storage device, a server and a food supply terminal. The storage device is arranged on a user side where food is used and is used for storing food, monitoring the use condition of the food, sending a food booking request to the server according to the use condition of the food and/or sending information of the use condition of the food to the server. The server is in communication with the storage device and the food supply terminal and used for receiving the booking request sent by the storage device, sending the booking request to the food supply terminal and/or sending the food booking request to the food supply terminal when judging that food needs to be supplemented to the storage device according to the information of the use condition of the food. The food supply terminal is arranged on a food supplier side and used for receiving the food booking request sent by the server and prompting a food supplier to distribute food to the user side. In this way, booking is conducted in time when food needs to be supplemented.

An aquaculture or wastewater effluent water quality device to improve water quality and food supply in an aquaculture pond or body of water by incubating beneficial microbes in a temperature controlled environment and systematically releasing them to the surrounding water, allowing the beneficial microbes to perform sanitation functions and to help such systems or water bodies overcome the natural production of harmful microbial species without substantially heating or cooling the entire system any more than is required by the present state of the system or body of water or the inhabitants thereof.

The invention provides a fractured end micro-movement and blood supply based fracture healing simulation system, relating to the field of biomedical engineering. The system is used for predicting a complicated process of fracture healing and exploring undetermined mechanisms in fracture healing. The system comprises a fracture healing simulation sub-system, an input module and a display module. The fracture healing simulation sub-system (1) comprises a geometry modeling module, a grid partition module, an environment initialization module, a biomechanical calculation module and a biological environment module. The biological environment module is used for creating a biochemical environment of callus in fracture healing so as to finish tissue differentiation in the callus. According to the system, blood supply is used as a dynamic variable and is introduced to the fracture healing simulation system, so that the fracture healing process can be simulated more accurately. The system can perform experiment simulation repeatedly, thereby helping to find out the best fractured end micro-movement value and the impact of blood on fracture healing.

The invention relates to a fully-digital intelligent restaurant system and a catering method. The fully-digital intelligent restaurant system mainly comprises a servo food supply system, an automatic dish distributing system, an automatic transmission system, a catering robot, a rack, a food taking channel and a lateral push rod. The fully-digital intelligent restaurant system is characterized in that the catering robot is installed on the rack; the automatic transmission system is arranged below the rack and passes through the rack; the servo food supply system is arranged below the catering robot; the food taking channel is arranged at the tail end of the automatic transmission system; and the lateral push rod is arranged at the tail end of a transmission channel. With the fully-digital intelligent restaurant system and the catering method adopted, fully unattended operation can be realized; catering efficiency can achieve 8 to 5 dishes per minute; environment can be safe and hygeian; and core requirements for pre-customization and remote operation can be satisfied.