Patents Assigned to Penford Corporation
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Patent number: 6800311Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a potato product with a film-like coating on the outer surface according to the steps of: cutting the potatoes; blanching the potatoes; and coating the potatoes with a dry coating composition comprising at least 50% by weight dextrin and from 5% to 25% by weight of a hydrolyzed starch characterized by a DE of from 0.2 to 5. The method provides coated potato products (french fries) characterized by desirable textural properties at low coating weights.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Penford CorporationInventor: Victor K. Villwock
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Patent number: 6593414Abstract: Pressure sensitive adhesive compositions comprising (a) a synthetic polymer latex; and (b) an aqueous dispersion of thinned, derivatized starch are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Kenneth C. Benton, Yakov A. Letuchy, Edward G. Ludwig, Jr., James M. Quarles
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Patent number: 6547867Abstract: The present invention provides adhesive and binder compositions comprising a potato peel product characterized on a dry solids basis by at least 30% starch, at least 5% protein and at least 2% fibers.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Saul Rogols, Denise M. Sirovatka, Robert G. Widmaier
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Patent number: 6512146Abstract: Improved water resistant acetal sizing agents including 1,1-octadecoxyoctadecane are provided along with methods for their synthesis including methods in which C8 to C30 alkyl bromides are reacted with a polyol under basic conditions and those in which a C8 to C30 primary alcohol is reacted with an organic base in the presence of a suitable oxidizing agent under basic conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Edward P. Pauley, Katherine Sue Neighbor
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Patent number: 6440204Abstract: The present invention provides adhesive and binder compositions comprising a potato peel product characterized on a dry solids basis by at least 30% starch, at least 5% protein and at least 2% fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2000Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Saul Rogols, Denise M. Sirovatka, Robert G. Widmaier
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Patent number: 6290814Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method for sizing paper which comprises the step of coating paper with a composition comprising gellan gum and a derivatized starch wherein the derivatized starch and the gellan gum are present at a weight ratio of from 300:1 to 1000:1. Also provided by the invention are improved papers adapted for ink jet printing characterized by an ash content of from 5% to 30% by weight, permeability characterized by an HST score in the range of over 200 seconds and treated with a surface size comprising gellan gum and a derivatized starch wherein the derivatized starch and the gellan gum are present at a weight ratio of from 100:1 to 1000.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignees: Penford Corporation, Pharmacia CorporationInventors: LuAnn E. Rooff, Catherine Bennett, Frank J. Miskiel
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Publication number: 20010015267Abstract: Improved water resistant acetal sizing agents including 1,1-octadecoxyoctadecane are provided along with methods for their synthesis including methods in which C8 to C30 alkyl bromides are reacted with a polyol under basic conditions and those in which a C8 to C30 primary alcohol is reacted with an organic base in the presence of a suitable oxidizing agent under basic conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2000Publication date: August 23, 2001Applicant: Penford CorporationInventors: Edward P. Pauley, Katherine Sue Neighbor
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Patent number: 6190462Abstract: The present invention provides in a method of treating starch, comprising the steps of (1) contacting starch with water to form a slurry and (2) mechanically removing said water from said starch slurry; the improvement comprising incorporating a dewatering composition comprising a dioctyl sulfosuccinate salt and a water miscible polyol into said starch slurry in an amount effective to decrease the water content of the resulting starch cake upon conclusion of the mechanical dewatering step.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Flave E. Markland, David A. Dunn
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Patent number: 6187366Abstract: A processed meat product is provided made up of meat and a crosslinked starch product containing a first crosslinked starch which is a potato or tapioca starch and a second crosslinked starch which is a corn starch wherein the first and second crosslinked starches are present at a ratio of 1:3 to 3:1.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1999Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Stuart A. Ensor, Charles Ferry, Greg Horn
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Patent number: 6165321Abstract: The invention relates to the sizing of substrates including paper, paperboard, wood and textiles, using an acetal sizing agent including 1,1-octadecoxyoctadecane, the distearyl acetal of stearyl aldehyde.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1999Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Edward P. Pauley, Katherine Sue Neighbor
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Patent number: 6159521Abstract: An aqueous starch enrobing slurry, for coating the outer surface of a potato product, having an as is solids content which is characterized by at least 30% by weight of a first crosslinked starch, at least 2% by weight of a crosslinked dent corn starch having a crosslinking level of at least 500 ppm and from 5% to 20% by weight dextrin, and wherein the crosslinked dent corn starch is preferably acetylated.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2000Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Greg Horn, Saul Rogols
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Patent number: 6080434Abstract: An aqueous starch enrobing slurry, for coating the outer surface of a potato product, having an as is solids content is provided which has at least 30% by weight of a first crosslinked starch, at least 2% by weight of a crosslinked dent corn starch having a crosslinking level of at least 500 ppm and from 5% to 20% by weight dextrin and wherein the crosslinked dent corn starch is preferably acetylated.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1998Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Greg Horn, Saul Rogols
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Patent number: 6040379Abstract: The invention provides methods for the preparation of a starch copolymer product which is the reaction product of starch and one or more synthetic monomers capable of undergoing free radical polymerization wherein the reaction product is in the form of an emulsion or dispersion having weight-average particle sizes less than 180 nm as measured by Capillary Hydrodynamic Fractionation.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1998Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Gary Luebke, Kenneth Curtis Benton, Yakov A. Letuchy
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Patent number: 6022569Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous starch enrobing slurry for coating the outer surface of a potato product having an as is solids content comprising ungelatinized starch and not less than 50% by weight rice flour, the method of preparing the potato product and the coated potato product produced thereby.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1997Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: Penford CorporationInventors: Saul Rogols, John Harold Woerman, Wallace H. Kunerth
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Patent number: D744352Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: PENFORD CORPORATIONInventor: James Quarles