Patents by Inventor Roger Brown

Roger Brown 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).

  • Cutter element
    Patent number: 4300429
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for cutting French fries or other elongated vegetable segments which undergo a processing step, so as to maximize the uniformity of a desirable segment characteristic after processing. To obtain French fries which cook to a substantially uniform degree of "doneness" after blanching, cutter blades are positioned to cut segments of smaller cross-sectional dimensions through the lower solids content pith at the center of a potato, and to cut segments of larger cross-sectional dimensions from the higher solids content portions of the potato.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Assignee: AMFAC Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger A. Brown, William F. Clyde, Glenn D. Galusha
  • Method of preparing potato segments
    Patent number: 4275086
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for cutting French fries or other elongated vegetable segments which undergo a processing step, so as to maximize the uniformity of a desirable segment characteristic after processing. To obtain French fries which cook to a substantially uniform degree of "doneness" after blanching, cutter blades are positioned to cut segments or smaller cross-sectional dimensions through the lower solids content pith at the center of a potato, and to cut segments of larger cross-sectional dimensions from the higher solids content portions of the potato.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Assignee: AMFAC Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger A. Brown, William F. Clyde, Glenn D. Galusha
  • Compression molding of thermoplastic material
    Patent number: 3988401
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for the continuous molding of compressed bodies of thermoplastic material of uniform shape comprising feeding a thermally-softened stream of material to a rotary compression molding zone to form a sheet of interconnected compressed bodies, and disintegrating said sheet to form a plurality of compressed bodies of uniform shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Howard Edward Kasting, Roger Brown Staub, Ward John Klingebiel