Patents Assigned to General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
  • Hydroxyalkyl locust bean/xanthomonas hydrophilic colloid blends
    Patent number: 4038206
    Abstract: A blend of xanthomonas gum and water soluble hydroxyalkyl ether of locust bean gum which has unique thickening properties. The blend is particularly useful in drilling oil wells and in oil well fracturing fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Lee Karl
  • Process for preparation of emulsified wheat gluten
    Patent number: 4035519
    Abstract: Emulsified gluten is prepared by mixing a hydrophilic or lipophilic emulsifier or mixture of such emulsifiers with hydrated wheat gluten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: Maher M. Abou-Guendia
  • Plaster of paris using glyoxal treated hydroxyalkyl guar
    Patent number: 4028127
    Abstract: Patching cracks and holes with a blend of a gypsum cement and the reaction product of a hydroxyalkyl ether of guar and glyoxal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred John Maske, Robert Nordgren
  • Certain benzoxazoles and the use thereof as metal extractants
    Patent number: 4020081
    Abstract: Benzoxazoles having the structure ##STR1## where R is hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R' is hydrogen, chlorine or an alkyl group containing from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, X is H or Chlorine and the total number of carbon atoms in R and R' is 6 to 40 with the proviso that one of R and R' must be an alkyl group of at least 6 carbon atoms. The benzoxazoles are useful in a process of recovering metal values, particularly copper and nickel, from aqueous solutions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth D. MacKay, Edgar R. Rogier
  • Use of fluorinated .beta.-diketones in the solvent extraction of zinc
    Patent number: 4015980
    Abstract: Zinc is extracted from aqueous ammoniacal solutions using fluorinated .beta.-diketones of the structure ##STR1## where n is a whole integer of 1 to 4, m is 0, 1 or 2 and R is an alkyl group of 1-25 carbons, the R group or groups providing requisite solubility in liquid hydrocarbon solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1977
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth D. MacKay, R. Brantley Sudderth
  • Stabilizer blend
    Patent number: 3996389
    Abstract: Stabilizer component for ice cream, ice milk, sherbet and like products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: John Thomas Osborne
  • Amidification products of C.sub.19 dicarboxylic acid and cyclical diamines
    Patent number: 3937687
    Abstract: Polyamids of a C.sub.19 diacid and certain cyclical diamine which are excellent engineering plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar R. Rogier, Allan H. Jevne, Gerald L. Schwebke
  • Copolyamides from an isomeric mixture of heptadecane dicarboxylic acid
    Patent number: 3937688
    Abstract: Copolyamides of a C.sub.19 diacid, a coacid selected from isophthalic acid, terephthalic acid, alkyl substituted isophthalic acid or esters thereof and a diamine selected from hexamethylene diamine and trimethyl hexamethylene diamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar R. Rogier, Allan H. Jevne, Gerald L. Schwebke
  • Acid compositions comprised of polymeric 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid as thickener
    Patent number: 3931089
    Abstract: Acid solutions having pH values of about 2 or below and containing a homopolymer of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid or a salt of the homopolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: General Mills Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Lee Karl