Patents Represented by Attorney James J. Farrell
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Patent number: 6348224Abstract: A method for manufacturing black leaf tea. The method involves macerating freshly plucked tea leaves, treating the leaves with ammonium bicarbonate, fermenting the treated leaves, firing the leaves to arrest fermentation and then drying them to yield black leaf tea.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Rajesh Hanamantagouda Patil, Krishnamurthy Raju, Prakesh Dattatraya Virkar
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Patent number: 6296887Abstract: A process for preparing tea concentrates particularly those suitable for making cold soluble instant tea products. The process involves preparing an extract of tea leaves that contains insoluble tea solids and at least 5% soluble tea solids. The extract is treated with air or oxygen at a temperature between room temperature and 100 ° C. for 1 to 120 minutes; while cell wall material from a vegetable source is mixed with it prior to or after said treatment with said air or oxygen. The solubilised extract is filtered and concentrated to yield the tea concentrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2000Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sheetal Sharadkumar Mehta, Vijay Sukumar, Prakash Dattatraya Virkar
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Patent number: 6296423Abstract: An apparatus for batching articles from a continuous stream of articles has a conduit comprising an entry duct (2) in which the articles are accelerated by suction. The suction air is drawn from the exit end of the duct, close to a pair of counter-rotating sealing rollers (20) which have resiliently yielding peripheral faces between which the articles pass. At the exit end of the conduit a pair of closure members (24) on opposite sides of the conduit are rotatable in 90° steps in order to collect the articles in batches. The closure members counter-rotate so that in each step they move in the general direction of movement of the articles. In this way it is possible to batch relatively delicate articles at high rates of throughflow.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1998Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michael John Cahill, Simon Charles Martin, James Robert Stembridge
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Patent number: 6280725Abstract: A composition suitable for inhibiting the outgrowth of fungi is provided comprising a first ingredient which inhibits the biogenesis of a normal fungal cell wall and a second ingredient which is capable of perturbing the structure of the cellular membrane of said fungi, so that either the cellular integrity is essentially lost or cell division cannot take place, or both. The first ingredient preferably inhibits the anchorage of cell wall proteins in the cell wall of the fungi and is suitably a &bgr;-(1,6)-glucose polysaccharide, preferably &bgr;-gentiobiose or a pustulan fragment. The second ingredient is suitably a natural microbial membrane affecting substance (MMAS), preferably MB-21. The composition is particularly suitable as a preservative for inhibiting the outgrowth of fungi in food products, such as sauces, dressings, ketchups, and soups, but is also useful for preventing or inhibiting undesired fungal growth on other products such as personal health care products, e.g. soap bars.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2000Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Isaac Bom, Stanley Brul
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Patent number: 6274187Abstract: A stable tea concentrate of about 50% to about 70% tea solids is prepared by aqueous extraction.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: August 14, 2001Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Gregg Lance Lehmberg, Sheng Xue Ma
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Patent number: 6270817Abstract: A crumb coating composition formed by agglomeration which includes (a) an insoluble powdered first protein at least 80% of which has a particle size of greater than 0.5 mm; and (b) a soluble second protein or a polysaccharide capable of being heat set during crumb manufacture, the final agglomerated crumb coating having an average particle size of about 4 to 15 times the size of the first protein; which is used for coating food products and has beneficial crispness qualities, particularly where the food product is prepared for consumption via microwave heating.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1997Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Douglas James Barnes, Brian Charles Fletcher, Mervyn Roy Goddard, Jamie Carl Martin, Malcolm John McBride, William John Stewart
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Patent number: 6261614Abstract: In order to provide a food product which has all the ingredients necessary for cooking, breadcrumbs are applied to a food fillet such as fish, oil being subsequently applied to the food portion after which the product is frozen. Preferably oil is applied at a first temperature in a first step and at a higher temperature in a second step. As a result, it is possible to produce a frozen food product comprising a food portion coated with a coating comprising oil/fat and particulate coating material, the weight ratio of oil/fat to particulate coating material being greater than 2:1, and the food product having greater than 10% by weight of oil/fat. Substantially all of the particulate coating material is coated with oil/fat.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Gorton's, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sandro Panaioli, Antonio Cocco
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Patent number: 6254902Abstract: A method for processing whole leaf tea that involves impregnating tea leaves with liquid carbon dioxide within a pressure vessel, depressurising the vessel at a rate that is sufficient to freeze the liquid carbon dioxide, applying sufficient heat to cause the frozen carbon dioxide to sublime and consequently initiate fermentation within the leaves, allowing the tea to ferment for a time that is sufficient to achieve desired liquor properties, and drying the fermented product to yield the whole leaf tea. An apparatus for manufacturing such a leaf tea is also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1999Date of Patent: July 3, 2001Assignee: Lipton, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Rosalind Clare Hodges, Jonathan David Mawson
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Patent number: 6250208Abstract: A machine for brewing tea, particularly in a shoc situation. The machine has a housing and at least one brewing assembly. The brewing assembly is formed to hold a brewing cup that has a filter that defines and separates a first cavity within the brewing cup for containing tea leaves and a second cavity from which tea leaves are excluded. The housing has a water supply that supplies a predetermined volume of water at a temperature that is suitable for infusing tea leaves. It also has a water supply channel for delivering the water into the first cavity of the brewing cup, and a siphon tube that has a siphoning end that extends orthogonally upward into the second cavity of the brewing cup and a downward projecting dispensing end.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: David Helps, Timothy Hope Jebb, Charanjit Singh Nandra, Benjamin Phalan Oates, Miles Pennington
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Patent number: 6245375Abstract: The invention relates to a translucent dressing which can be manufactured and offered to the consumer as a two-phase system, having separate oil and water layers. Upon shaking by hand, an emulsion is produced which remains stable for at least one week. Such a dressing is suitable for use on e.g. salad.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Gijsbertus Kuil, Yadi Heydari, Barbara M C Pelan, Bert Schenk
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Patent number: D442349Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2000Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Naghi Habib
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Patent number: D442763Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2000Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Edward Kirke Ryder, Patricia Mary Seidl
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Patent number: D443128Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2000Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Lily Lam
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Patent number: D443521Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Karen Lynn Ortiz-Valero, Bartlett Henderson Goodell, Bert Davis Heinzelman, Donald Richard Lamond
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Patent number: D443751Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2000Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: David Robert Graham Cox, Erin Lynn Murray, Patricia Mary Seidl
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Patent number: D444069Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Karen Lynn Ortiz-Valero, Bartlett Henderson Goodell, Bert Davis Heinzelman, Donald Richard Lamond
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Patent number: D444070Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Karen Lynn Ortiz-Valero, Bartlett Henderson Goodell, Bert Davis Heinzelman, Donald Richard Lamond
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Patent number: D444391Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: July 3, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Vinod Kumar Bansal, Karen Lynn Ortiz-Valero, Bartlett Henderson Goodell, Bert Davis Heinzelman, Donald Richard Lamond
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Patent number: D448305Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Jim Warner, Robert Croft, Sergio Gedanke
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Patent number: D449533Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: David Helps, Philip Bordet-Stead