Patents Represented by Attorney James J. Farrell

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  • Process for the preparation of a food product
    Patent number: 5876772
    Abstract: A process for shaping a wafer comprising the steps of (a) softening the wafer by using infra-red radiation, (b) shaping the softened wafer into a desired form, and (c) cooling the shaped wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Reginald Biggs, Johannes Krieg
  • Heat sealing of thread to a web
    Patent number: 5874149
    Abstract: A tagged packet carries a tag which is attached to the main body of the packet by a thread. The thread comprises polypropylene so as to be attachable by heat sealing to the body. The body is made up of layers of sheet material also comprising thermoplastic material to allow the body to be closed by heat seals. The thread is secured to the f ace of the body at one edge at the same time as that edge is heat sealed and the heating for the thread seal is applied from the opposite face of the body whereas the adjacent regions of edge seal spaced from the thread has the heating applied through the first face. This arrangement gives closer control of the different conditions required for securing the thread and for sealing together only the sheet material of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey William Vernon, James Goodwin, Andrew Cleall, Thomas William Bailey
  • Method and apparatus for the production of tagged packets
    Patent number: 5873216
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for assembling together tags (6), thread (8) and a web of envelope material for producing tagged packets. The tags are held on spaced seats on the periphery of a rotary carrier (2) and the thread is laid over the carrier and the tags. It is formed into a convoluted shape on the peripheral surface of the carrier between the tags by laterally displaceable holding pins (12) or by being dispensed onto the carrier by a displaceable guide (50). The web is brought against the tags and thread and attached to them maintaining the convoluted pattern of the thread. The assembly of web, thread and tags is suitable for a subsequent form-filling operation to complete the packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Harvey William Appelbe, Thomas William Bailey, James Goodwin
  • Easy open dispensing cap
    Patent number: 5865354
    Abstract: An easy opening dispenser closure is disclosed having a top and an annular depending base skirt with a lid mounted on the top. The lid has a downwardly depending annular edge which in turn has an extension with an end shaped to fit the end of a thumb. The skirt has a thumb recess in which the extension fits. The extension locks the lid securely and detachably to the base skirt. The lid has a chamfered edge on the top to assist in centering the entire closure on the container during capping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar Bansal
  • Heat sealing of thread to a web
    Patent number: 5865924
    Abstract: A tagged packet carries a tag which is attached to the main body of the packet by a thread. The thread comprises polypropylene so as to be attachable by heat sealing to the body. The body is made up of layers of sheet material also comprising thermoplastic material to allow the body to be closed by heat seals. The thread is secured to the face of the body at one edge at the same time as that edge is heat sealed and the heating for the thread seal is applied from the opposite face of the body whereas the adjacent regions of edge seal spaced from the thread has the heating applied through the first face. This arrangement gives closer control of the different conditions required for securing the thread and for sealing together only the sheet material of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey William Vernon, James Goodwin, Andrew Cleall, Thomas William Bailey
  • Infusion packets
    Patent number: 5863575
    Abstract: Packets containing a flowable material are provided with a draw-string or thread to squeeze the packet contents. The packet envelope is formed from a doubled-over web which gives the packet a folded-over edge and which encloses an intermediate portion of the thread close to the folded-over edge. The end portions of the web extend from the intermediate portion of the thread to extend through the opposite edge of the packet. The external ends of the thread are secured to a tag which is attached to the outer face of the envelope. The thread intermediate portion is retained close to the folded-over edge by heat sealing. Apparatus is also described for producing the packets in a continuous or semi-continuous manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Kuipers, Simon Charles Martin, Geoffrey William Vernon, Petrus Wilhelmus Van Der Zon
  • Tea processing with zeolites
    Patent number: 5863581
    Abstract: Tea products, particularly black leaf tea and tea powder, derived from green tea leaf are manufactured by a process involving addition of zeolite, preferably a synthetic sodium or potassium zeolite, for reaction with tea ingredients present or subsequently produced to generate red colour species. The tea products produce beverages having enhanced colour characteristics, in terms of colour properties and speed of colour generation, compared with conventional products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew John Barrett, Mark Richard Birch, Timothy Graham Jones
  • Infusion packet
    Patent number: 5855938
    Abstract: Infusion packets have envelopes of heat-sealable material with a looped thread within the packets to wring moisture from the packet in use. A central part of the thread loop is held in a widened region of one edge seal while the ends of the loop project through the opposite edge seal in which they are movable when the loop is to be contracted. The packets are produced by forming a continuous series of thread loops on one elongate web and placing doses of infusion material on a second elongate web before bringing the webs together with the thread loops and infusion material between them. The two webs are then welded together and the individual packets are separated from the joined webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Cahill, Geoffrey William Vernon
  • Complete flavor mix transformed into the glassy state
    Patent number: 5846580
    Abstract: A completely formulated, ready to cook, food product mix is discussed which is entirely in the glassy state and has a single glass transition temperature. An extrusion process for preparing the product is also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: William Conrad Franke, Jacob Paul Jae, Daniel Thomas Sullivan, Maya Parada, Francis John Farrell
  • Processing of soluble tea solids
    Patent number: 5820914
    Abstract: This invention concerns a method of altering the colour characteristics of a tea composition, including treating a tea infusion that contains cold water soluble tea solids but is substantially free of cold water insoluble tea solids, with an oxidising agent in a reaction vessel at a temperature and pressure in excess of the ambient temperature and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conapco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Noble, Jeffrey Bryn Richards
  • Food dressing
    Patent number: 5817363
    Abstract: Food dressing constituted of an aqueous phase and 0-40 wt. % of fat and/or oil, further containing a non-ionic thickening agent and an electrolyte and having a pH not greater than 4, and which contains also 3-8 wt. % of heat denatured globular protein, which dressing is prepared by a process comprising the stepsa. dissolving a globular protein, a non-ionic thickening agent and an electrolyte in water,b. adjusting the pH to <4 by adding acid,c. heating and slowly stirring the solution so that protein denaturation occurs,d. cooling,e. optionally admixing other ingredients,where, optionally, step d follows step e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marinus Adriaan Evert Bakker, Petronella Clementia Maria Weisenborn
  • Producing shaped articles
    Patent number: 5806392
    Abstract: Shaped articles are cut from a web by correspondingly shaped cutters on a drum cooperating with an anvil drum. The web is engaged by conveyor bands which pass around the cutter and anvil drums and form a continuing conveying path for the web away from the drums. The conveyor bands are clear of the article shapes cut in the web which can thus be positively separated from the web by pusher means to be drawn away from the web by their own conveying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton, Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew John Cleall, James Goodwin, Geoffrey William Vernon, Peter Ernest Willett
  • Multi layer spiral-shaped, dried pasta/sauce food composition and a method for making the spiral pasta/sauce combination
    Patent number: 5780091
    Abstract: A spiral wound instant pasta solid sauce composite noodle is disclosed which employs selected dusting agents and solid sauce interleaved within the spiral to insure unrolling of the spiral upon subsequent boiling. A method for the preparation of the sauce and the noodle is also disclosed along with a system for packing the noodles in flexible envelopes to reduce breakage of the noodles and to permit inclusion of noodles longer than the flexible package filling aperture and reducing the incidence of perforation of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: James Vincent Cassetta, Michael Budd, Mauro Dominick Mordini
  • Tea beverage preservation and method of making
    Patent number: 5773062
    Abstract: An aqueous based tea solids containing beverage and a method for its preparation is disclosed. The beverage contains sufficient Natamycin to prevent the outgrowth of yeast and/or mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Cirigliano, Raymond Thomas McKenna, Paul John Rothenberg
  • Container
    Patent number: D394383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Denys Bradfield
  • Combined bottle and cap
    Patent number: D400444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: David Scott Laubach, David Frederic Gnadt
  • Combined bottle and cap
    Patent number: D401507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Gonda, David Scott Laubach, Gregory Alan Lathrop, Joyce Lynn Kruse
  • Container
    Patent number: D403242
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Norman Edwards
  • Confection
    Patent number: D405935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Patricia Mary Seidl
  • Confection
    Patent number: D406185
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricia Mary Seidl, Edward Kirke Ryder