Patents by Inventor Kenneth Paul Bilka

Kenneth Paul Bilka 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).

  • High speed coating of gum cores
    Patent number: 7537792
    Abstract: A system and process for coating pieces or cores of confectionery material, such as chewing gum, with a sugar-based coating or a sugarless-based coating. The solid content of the sugar or sugarless material in the syrup solution is increased, thus reducing the water content and allowing the successive coating layers to be dried more quickly. The syrup solution is maintained at an elevated temperature in order to prevent the syrup solids from precipitating or crystallizing out of solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Cadbury Adams USA LLC
    Inventors: Miles Van Niekerk, Francois Pierre Errandonea, Kenneth Paul Bilka
  • High speed coating of gum cores
    Publication number: 20020086092
    Abstract: A system and process for coating pieces or cores of confectionery material, such as chewing gum, with a sugar-based coating or a sugarless-based coating. The solid content of the sugar or sugarless material in the syrup solution is increased, thus reducing the water content and allowing the successive coating layers to be dried more quickly. The syrup solution is maintained at an elevated temperature in order to prevent the syrup solids from precipitating or crystallizing out of solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: Miles Van Niekerk, Francois Pierre Errandonea, Kenneth Paul Bilka