Patents by Inventor Larry Clyde Long

Larry Clyde Long 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).

  • Mandrel structure for use in manufacture of cellulose food casing
    Patent number: 6444161
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mandrel structure for extruding a tube composed of a non derivatized cellulose. The mandrel includes a hollow sizing portion having openings which gather gas bubbles that may evolve at the interface between the extruded tube and the sizing portion and allows the gas to pass into the hollow interior of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Viskase Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Griffith Williams, Larry Clyde Long, Owen Joseph Mc Garel, Ronald Joseph Jerantowski, James Joseph Albert
  • Food casing package and method of preparing
    Patent number: 6279737
    Abstract: Disclosed is a package containing a plurality of cut lengths of fibrous casing which are moisturized to substantially soaked levels of moisture and are retained in an evacuated plastic bag wherein the moisture level of the casing is derived from free water added into the bag prior to evacuation. Also disclosed is a method of packaging cut lengths of casing which provides for the addition of soaked levels of moisture to the casing in the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Viskase Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Clyde Long, Frederick Maynard Merritt, II, Jeffery Allen Oxley