Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Edward A. Sequillante, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6322842
    Abstract: A fat continuous stick having up to 80% of a fat containing less than 10% trans fatty acids prepared by a process comprising the steps of selecting a structuring amount of an interesterfied hardstock fat to make a stick product, combining the hardstock to form a fat phase, introducing an aqueous phase and the fat phase into a scrapped surface heat exchanger to form a cooled emulsion having an exit temperature of less than 20° C., then passing the cooled emulsion into a crystallizing unit (C-unit) having an exit temperature of C-unit greater than the exit temperature of the emulsion and having a shear rate of less than 1800 rpm to aid in forming a finer dispersion and to initiate crystallization in the cooled emulsion. The emulsion with the fat crystals is then introduced into a second heat exchanger unit having a temperature range of at least 2-8° C. below the exit temperature of the emulsion from the first exchanger unit wherein the residence time of the process is less than ten minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Van den Bergh Foods Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Podutoori Ravinder Reddy, Robert Andrew Madsen, Johannes Henricus Schuurman