Patents by Inventor Bruce Michael Squires

Bruce Michael Squires has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHILLING A FOOD PRODUCT PROXIMATE TO AND IN A FOOD PROCESSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140060272
    Abstract: A system and method for chilling a food product in or proximate to a food processing device adapted to dice, slice, shred, chop, or cut the food product is disclosed. The disclosed system and method involves a two or three stage application of a liquid cryogen or carbon dioxide snow to cool the food product. The cooling stages include a first stage of cryogen application upstream of the entrance of the food processing device, a second stage of cryogen application or delivery into one or more zones within the food processing device, and a third stage of cryogen application to the region proximate to and downstream of the exit to the food processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Paul Cyrus Shah, Gary Dee Lang, Bruce Michael Squires, Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Balazs Hunek, Steven Michael McCarty
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHILLING A FOOD PRODUCT PROXIMATE TO AND IN A FOOD PROCESSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140053697
    Abstract: A system and method for chilling a food product in or proximate to a food processing device adapted to dice, slice, shred, chop, or cut the food product is disclosed. The disclosed system and method involves a two or three stage application of a liquid cryogen or carbon dioxide snow to cool the food product. The cooling stages include a first stage of cryogen application upstream of the entrance of the food processing device, a second stage of cryogen application or delivery into one or more zones within the food processing device, and a third stage of cryogen application to the region proximate to and downstream of the exit to the food processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Paul Cyrus Shah, Gary Dee Lang, Bruce Michael Squires, Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Balazs Hunek, Steven Michael McCarty
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHILLING A FOOD PRODUCT PROXIMATE TO AND IN A FOOD PROCESSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110311700
    Abstract: A system and method for chilling a food product in or proximate to a food processing device adapted to dice, slice, shred, chop, or cut the food product is disclosed. The disclosed system and method involves a two or three stage application of a liquid cryogen or carbon dioxide snow to cool the food product. The cooling stages include a first stage of cryogen application upstream of the entrance of the food processing device, a second stage of cryogen application or delivery into one or more zones within the food processing device, and a third stage of cryogen application to the region proximate to and downstream of the exit to the food processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Paul Cyrus Shah, Gary Dee Lang, Bruce Michael Squires, Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Balazs Hunek, Steven Michael McCarty