Patents by Inventor J. Antonio Gutierrez
J. Antonio Gutierrez 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).
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Publication number: 20140044854Abstract: Creamers for whitening food products are provided. The creamers can have long-term stability, high whitening capacity and a pleasant mouth feel. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a natural dairy creamer including a sugar, a fat, a protein having a globular protein denaturation degree between about 75% and about 98%, and a viscosity ranging between about 10 cP and about 70 cP when measured at a temperature of 4° C. and a shear rate of 75 s?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: NESTEC S.A.Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Bezelgues, J. Antonio Gutierrez, Martin Erwin Leser
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Publication number: 20130122178Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid creamer with good whitening effect, pleasant sensory characteristics, and which is stable during aseptical processing and subsequent storage at ambient temperature. The creamer is useful e.g. for adding to a hot or cold beverage. The creamer comprising, among others, vegetable oil, protein, maltodextrin, lambda carrageenan, gum arabic and emulsifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: NESTEC S.A.Inventors: Alexander A. Sher, Christine Ann Beeson, Winnie Octavia, J. Antonio Gutierrez
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Patent number: 8263155Abstract: A beverage dispenser, including a whipper disk and a dispensing spout connected downstream to the housing for dispensing the whipped beverage mixture. A sieve is disposed within the dispensing spout and is configured for reducing the number of large bubbles present within the fluid over a predetermined size. An output plate covers a downstream end of the dispensing spout and has a plurality of holes formed therein for reducing the velocity of the whipped beverage mixture through the dispensing spout.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Darren William Crow, Takeshi Masu, Jurgen Leenders, Richard Patrick Egnor, Travis D. Hall, J. Antonio Gutierrez, Amol Bhalerao
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Publication number: 20090285955Abstract: A beverage dispenser, including a whipper disk and a dispensing spout connected downstream to the housing for dispensing the whipped beverage mixture. A sieve is disposed within the dispensing spout and is configured for reducing the number of large bubbles present within the fluid over a predetermined size. An output plate covers a downstream end of the dispensing spout and has a plurality of holes formed therein for reducing the velocity of the whipped beverage mixture through the dispensing spout.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: Darren William Crow, Takeshi Masu, Jurgen Leenders, Richard Patrick Egnor, Travis D. Hall, J. Antonio Gutierrez, Amol Bhalerao
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Patent number: 7147134Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a dispensing device for rapidly and efficiently heating/cooling a flowable food product whereby removable cassettes are provided for receiving a pouch containing food; the cassettes comprising pairs of opposed thermal conductive surfaces wherein the surfaces delimit together a limited spacing adapted to contact a pouch and means for applying heat to said at least pair of cassettes.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2002Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: J. Antonio Gutierrez, Balakrishna Reddy, Robert Greene
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Patent number: 6996950Abstract: The invention relates to a method for sealing a peripheral attachment member onto a sealed pouch that has been previously filled with a product. The invention also relates to a pouch that includes a peripheral attachment member sealingly attached to at least one of its faces. The method includes a step of providing a multi-layer pouch that is configured so as to provide an inner sealant adapted to form a closed enclosure along sealing lines and an outer sealant that forms at least one external face of the pouch wherein the outer sealant has a melting point that is lower than the melting point of the inner sealant.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2003Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Balakrishna Reddy, Bradley H. Buchanan, M. Jeffrey Willey, Annette M. Nikolis, Chee Kok Ong, Gene F. Clyde, J. Antonio Gutierrez
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Patent number: 6938801Abstract: A flowable food dispenser for dispensing a flowable food product. The dispenser includes a housing with first and second bays, and a plurality of cassettes that are removably receivable within the bays. Each cassette is configured for receiving a pouch containing the flowable food. First and second thermal exchange units are associated with the first and second bays, respectively, in heat-exchanging association with the cassettes received therein. A temperature-controlled system is connected with the thermal exchange units for controlling them independently to independently heat or cool the cassettes in the bays and the food product that is disposed therein. A least one dispensing mechanism is associated with the first and second bays to selectively dispense the food from the pouches that are in the cassettes.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Balakrishna Reddy, J. Antonio Gutierrez
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Patent number: 6936794Abstract: A merchandiser for displaying and warming previously baked dough products, such as a filled pastry shell or other baked dough product, under controlled drying conditions, including an enclosure having one or more wall members that define an interior space, with at least a portion of one of the wall members being transparent, an opening for access into the interior space, a removable support member within the enclosure that includes at least one support surface for previously baked dough products and a spacing arrangement configured and adapted to reproducibly position the support member within the interior space of the enclosure member to facilitate substantially uniform airflow around each support surface and throughout the enclosure, and a heating system for providing heated air in the enclosure, wherein the substantially uniform airflow provides controlled drying of the previously baked dough products in the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Hua Zhang, Mark A. Williamson, Eileen M. Roehr, Gary C. Helstern, J. Antonio Gutierrez
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Patent number: 6871015Abstract: The invention relates to a method for rapidly, efficiently heating and dispensing a flowable food product, using a device preferably of limited footprint whereby removable cassettes are provided for receiving a food-containing package. The cassettes at least include a direct conduction surface and an insulating coverage that substantially reduces radiant heat loss outside the cassettes. Preferably, there is provided peristaltic pumps, each one being adapted to engage a discharge tube of the food pouch wherein the pumps have their rotor plane oriented in alignment or parallel to the axial plane of the cassettes. Cassettes are heated by low power density generating heating members, such as a thin film heater or equivalent.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: J. Antonio Gutierrez, Balakrishna Reddy, Hua Zhang
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Publication number: 20040139697Abstract: The invention relates to a method for sealing a peripheral attachment member onto a sealed pouch that has been previously filled with a product. The invention also relates to a pouch that includes a peripheral attachment member sealingly attached to at least one of its faces. The method includes a step of providing a multi-layer pouch that is configured so as to provide an inner sealant adapted to form a closed enclosure along sealing lines and an outer sealant that forms at least one external face of the pouch wherein the outer sealant has a melting point that is lower than the melting point of the inner sealant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Inventors: Balakrishna Reddy, Bradley H. Buchanan, M. Jeffrey Willey, Annette M. Nikolis, C. K. Ong, Gene F. Clyde, J. Antonio Gutierrez
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Patent number: 6698624Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cleanly and conveniently refilling a flowable substance in a dispensing device which comprises a container assembly of a container containing a flowable substance; a container holding assembly attached to the container which includes an opening mechanism for securing the opening of the container when the container holding assembly is held in a stable delivery position on a reservoir. An unlatching mechanism is also provided to release the container holding assembly from the reservoir in a convenient way. The invention also relates to the combination of such a container assembly and a reservoir assembly which is especially adapted for securely receiving the container assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2002Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Gerhard Ufheil, William F. Overbaugh, Randall C. Chrisman, J. Antonio Gutierrez, Donald G. Melanson, Jr., Gerald Squires, Geno Piacentini
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Patent number: 6691894Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a viscous fluid food product from a pouch. The dispenser includes a housing configured and dimensioned for receiving the pouch. The pouch includes a food in the form of a viscous fluid therein. The pouch has first and second ends, a sidewall that can be arranged to form first and second opposed surfaces and an outlet. The dispenser incorporates an assembly that includes a roller for pressing the pouch so as to urge the viscous fluid food product toward the outlet. To do this, the roller has a pressing surface disposable in a position adjacent the first surface of the pouch and a planar surface disposed adjacent the second surface of the pouch. The dispenser also includes a closure assembly arranged for engagement with the outlet for closing same. This assembly is also capable of opening the outlet so as to cause the roller to move along the pouch surface toward the outlet by gravity for expelling the viscous fluid food product through the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Randall C. Chrisman, J. Antonio Gutierrez, William F. Overbaugh
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Publication number: 20030116584Abstract: The invention relates to a method for rapidly, efficiently heating and dispensing a flowable food product, using a device preferably of limited footprint whereby removable cassettes are provided for receiving a food-containing package. The cassettes at least include a direct conduction surface and an insulating coverage that substantially reduces radiant heat loss outside the cassettes. Preferably, there is provided peristaltic pumps, each one being adapted to engage a discharge tube of the food pouch wherein the pumps have their rotor plane oriented in alignment or parallel to the axial plane of the cassettes. Cassettes are heated by low power density generating heating members, such as a thin film heater or equivalent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: J. Antonio Gutierrez, Balakrishna Reddy, Hua Zhang
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Publication number: 20030089740Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a dispensing device for rapidly and efficiently heating/cooling a flowable food product whereby removable cassettes are provided for receiving a pouch containing food; the cassettes comprising pairs of opposed thermal conductive surfaces wherein the surfaces delimit together a limited spacing adapted to contact a pouch and means for applying heat to said at least pair of cassettes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Inventors: J. Antonio Gutierrez, Balakrishna Reddy, Robert Greene
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Publication number: 20020145010Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cleanly and conveniently refilling a flowable substance in a dispensing device which comprises a container assembly of a container containing a flowable substance; a container holding assembly attached to the container which includes an opening mechanism for securing the opening of the container when the container holding assembly is held in a stable delivery position on a reservoir. An unlatching mechanism is also provided to release the container holding assembly from the reservoir in a convenient way. The invention also relates to the combination of such a container assembly and a reservoir assembly which is especially adapted for securely receiving the container assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2002Publication date: October 10, 2002Inventors: Gerhard Ufheil, William F. Overbaugh, Randall C. Chrisman, J. Antonio Gutierrez, Donald G. Melanson, Gerald Squires, Geno Piacentini
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Publication number: 20020092879Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a viscous fluid food product from a pouch. The dispenser includes a housing configured and dimensioned for receiving the pouch. The pouch includes a food in the form of a viscous fluid therein. The pouch has first and second ends, a sidewall that can be arranged to form first and second opposed surfaces and an outlet. The dispenser incorporates an assembly that includes a roller for pressing the pouch so as to urge the viscous fluid food product toward the outlet. To do this, the roller has a pressing surface disposable in a position adjacent the first surface of the pouch and a planar surface disposed adjacent the second surface of the pouch. The dispenser also includes a closure assembly arranged for engagement with the outlet for closing same. This assembly is also capable of opening the outlet so as to cause the roller to move along the pouch surface toward the outlet by gravity for expelling the viscous fluid food product through the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2002Publication date: July 18, 2002Inventors: Randall C. Chrisman, J. Antonio Gutierrez, William F. Overbaugh