Patents by Inventor Robert Franklin Howland

Robert Franklin Howland 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).

  • Method for fixing cryogenically condensed coffee aromatics in a glyceride carrier
    Patent number: 4119736
    Abstract: A high level of aromatics are absorbed by coffee oil by placing a coffee aroma frost in an isolated vessel, raising the internal temperature and pressure, removing water from the pressurized vessel and thereafter introducing coffee oil into the pressurized vessel. The mixture is allowed to equilibrate for a period of time and is then slowly vented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Franklin Howland, George Anthony Jasovsky, Joseph Anthony Galanti
  • Soluble coffee of improved stability and flavor
    Patent number: 4045586
    Abstract: Soluble coffee of improved stability during storage is prepared by removing a portion of the aromatics from an aqueous coffee extract, drying the remaining extract, fixing the removed aromatics by mixing them in solution with a fixative and drying the resultant solution, and adding at least a portion of the fixed aromatics to the dried remaining extract. The soluble coffee powder so prepared is characterized by its lack of off-flavors normally developed during storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Franklin Howland, Michael Herman Mansky, Willie James Richards