Patents Represented by Attorney Daniel J. Donovan

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  • Enrobed food products and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 4741908
    Abstract: An enrobed food product having improved freezer shelf-life wherein the inner filling material is pre-frozen and shaped as to be substantially smooth surfaced and devoid of edges. The dough is a composite dough having fats or margarine interposed between a plurality of dough layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer
    Inventors: Arthur W. Brooks, Gerald R. Popenhagen, Donna J. Rentschler
  • Fat-containing powder product quickly dispersible in cold water and process for preparing the same
    Patent number: 4737369
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a fat-containing powder product which is readily wettable and dispersible even in cold water. More particularly, the present invention pertains to a process for preparing a fat-containing powder product which is quickly dispersible in cold water characterized by comprising coating at least a part of the surface of fat-containing powder particles with mono- and/or di-glyceride of a medium chain fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: Ajinomoto General Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Ichiro Asano, Kozaburo Mori
  • Coffee roasting method
    Patent number: 4737376
    Abstract: Coffee is produced by first suspending a bubbling bed thereof under conditions which avoid popping in a heated medium wherein the heating gas is present in excess of 10:1 gas to coffee, the gas being less than 630.degree. F., and thereafter exposing the coffee to a further charge of hot gas at a comparable gas to coffee ratio to complete the roast, the second charge of air being at a temperature equal to or less than the first charge. The roasted coffee which is produced has a roasted whole bean density of from 0.28 to 0.34 gms./cc. When the roasted whole beans are suitably ground, a roasted and ground coffee of 11 to 13.5 oz. per 1000 cc. is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence S. Brandlein, Steven M. Schechter, James P. Mahlmann
  • Floating lid with brew feature
    Patent number: 4733792
    Abstract: A floating lid is provided which enables the preparation of a beverage of uniform consistency which is retarded in its loss of volatile, oxidation and contamination. The floating lid is buoyant and has an aperture through which the beverage passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald S. Wasserman, Karl C. Kramer, Slawko Yadlowsky
  • Computer-assisted laboratory notebook kit
    Patent number: 4730847
    Abstract: A wrapped packet of papers including a separate title page, one or more separate table of content pages and a continuous strip of fan-folded, two-ply sequentially-numbered paper sheets. Both the separate sheets and the sheets present in the continuous strip possess punched out holes for fastening the sheets into ring or post binders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Grace M. Donnelly
  • Method and apparatus for filling and packaging a flowable product
    Patent number: 4729206
    Abstract: The apparatus incorporates a conveyor having a generally horizontal upper run which includes container receiving and supporting apertures, at a first station. At a second station along the conveyor path, the containers are each filled with a predetermined amount of a flowable product which is dispensed into each of the containers during relative vertical separating movement of a filler nozzle with respect to each container. Thereafter, each of the product-filled containers is conducted to a third station along the conveyor path wherein a closure fitment is positioned within the opening of the filled conical container. At a fourth station along the conveyor path, a crimping device mechanically crimps the upper edge of the container about an upturned annular flange of the closure fitment to thereby form a mechanical connection between the closure fitment and the conical container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald R. Francis, Martin Mueller
  • Process for making an improved instant filling mix
    Patent number: 4726958
    Abstract: A process for producing an instant no-bake filling mix which upon reconstitution or hydration has an improved glossy, smooth, creamy and firm texture with a sliceable pie cut characteristic on setting. A pre-filling mix is provided by mixing all dry ingredients and then incorporating fat or oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: General Foods Inc.
    Inventors: Cathy A. Brown, Jean L. Eng
  • Soft-frozen water-ice formulation
    Patent number: 4724153
    Abstract: An aerated soft-frozen, fat-free protein-free water-ice product which is extrudable at 0.degree. to 10.degree. F., said product containing a critical level of chemical emulsifier in order to effect desirable textural characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Gary T. Dulin, Marnie L. DeGregorio, Peter C. Erickson, Bruce A. Cole
  • Method of imparting an oven roasted color to a meat product
    Patent number: 4721623
    Abstract: An oven-roasted color is imparted to a meat product which is cooked at a temperature below that at which natural browning occurs. This is accomplished by atomizing an aqueous solution of caramel coloring in an environment sufficiently humid to prevent spray drying of the atomized solution, contacting the meat product with the atomized caramel coloring solution in that humid environment, and exposing the surface of the meat product to a temperature sufficiently high to bind the caramel coloring to the meat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas H. Coffey, Gene G. Suess
  • Beverage dispensing machine
    Patent number: 4718579
    Abstract: A beverage dispensing machine which combines a powdered beverage mix and water in a first mixing chamber, provides for additional dispersion and solubilization of the powder in water in one or more additional mixing chambers and thereafter gravity feeds the powder-containing liquid into a low-capacity reservoir from which the beverage may be dispensed on an intermittent basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1988
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Deborah S. Brody, Robert C. Kendall, Douglas E. Murray, James R. Weldon
  • Automatic crimping mechanism for proteinaceous patties
    Patent number: 4714014
    Abstract: An automatic crimping mechanism is provided for knitting together multi-layered proteinaceous patty products while those products are being conveyed along a pathway generally beneath the automatic crimping mechanism. By operation of the crimping mechanism, a plurality of pins enter the proteinaceous patties to thereby knit them together. An automatic washing assembly can be included whereby the crimping head assemblies are automatically cycled between a crimping orientation and a washing orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Carroll P. Hartl, James M. Heitman
  • Food loaf slicing machine with improved stacking characteristics
    Patent number: 4712458
    Abstract: A high volume food loaf slicing machine in which a rotating and orbiting knife slices the loaf as it advances through a slicing station. The turbulent air generated by the rotating and orbiting knife is reduced in the vacinity of the stacking slices by baffles and is redirected through a vent port and away from the stacking slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy G. Mally
  • Emulsification system for creamy cheese food products
    Patent number: 4713255
    Abstract: A dry mix which contains an emulsification system including a combination of Polysorbate 60 and dextrin can be used to produce a creamy cheese and stable fluid emulsion by hand shaking the dry mix with a low aqueous phase and an oil phase. The amount of shaking required to produce a stable oil-in-water emulsion is much reduced as compared to other emulsification systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Horan, Jeffrey M. Schweid
  • Microwave oven video viewing device
    Patent number: 4711979
    Abstract: A microwave viewing device and, more particularly, an arrangement facilitating the internal viewing of a microwave oven during the preparation of a food product or the like in a microwaving process. The viewing device incorporates a tubular support which is extendable through an opening formed in a side wall of a microwave oven, and which extends into close proximity to a food product being subjected to microwave processing in the oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1987
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: George M. Glasser, Robert P. DeRobertis, John H. Smithwrick, William J. Kelly
  • Pass-through proteinaceous patty making apparatus
    Patent number: 4709449
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for forming a series of proteinaceous patties such as ground meat patties and for depositing those patties in timed sequence onto aconveyor belt assembly that passes through the entire longitudinal length of the apparatus, including passage through a protective tunnel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Alvin Borsuk
  • All natural, ready-to-eat enzyme-saccharified cereal derived from whole cereal grain
    Patent number: 4710386
    Abstract: A process for producing an all natural, enzyme-saccharified, cereal derived from whole grain is disclosed. The process involves milling and separating the whole grain to produce a bran fraction, an endosperm fraction, and a germ fraction. The germ fraction is processed by toasting and grinding and preferably by removing bran before the toasting. The bran fraction and any bran material separated out from the ground germ is modified to increase its functionality by high temperature, high shear extrusion in a counter-rotating twin screw extruder. The endosperm fraction is coarsely milled, made into a slurry, cooked and then enzymatically hydrolyzed. The final step involves recombining the processed fractions, to form a cereal dough which is further processed to produce a ready-to-eat breakfast cereal. Optionally from 1-15% of the whole grain may be malted and added into the cereal dough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Charles V. Fulger, Ernest K. Gum
  • Covered entree plate
    Patent number: D293292
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Finsilver, Terry L. Taylor, Roger E. Worm, Nabil El-Hag
  • Beverage decanter
    Patent number: D293871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignees: General Foods, William Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald R. Turner, Slawko Yadlowsky
  • Cooking tray
    Patent number: D293999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Grindrod, Ray H. Griesbach
  • Pallet
    Patent number: D295568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer
    Inventors: Richard C. Rothwell, Kevin D. Rose