Patents by Inventor Merl Jones

Merl Jones 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).

  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOLDING AND CHILLING CHEESE
    Publication number: 20140322414
    Abstract: Pasta filata cheese, such as mozzarella and provolone, is molded and chilled by delivering the warm, plastic cheese through a cheese inlet port into a plurality of molds at an inlet station. A fluid, such as chilled water, is circulated around the molds to cool the pasta filata cheese therein. After cooling to some degree, force is applied to the upper surface of the cheese in each mold to prevent a depression from forming in that surface. Thereafter upon cooling for a desired amount, the pasta filata cheese is ejected from the plurality of molds at an outlet station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Foremost Farms USA, Cooperative
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Young, Thomas G. Curtis, Merl Jones, Jesse Thompson, John A. Haake