Patents Represented by Attorney Joseph T. Harcarik

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  • Extruded shrimp analog formed from vegetable protein and starch complex
    Patent number: 4562082
    Abstract: Extruded shrimp analogs are prepared from a vegetable protein and high amylose starch based composition which is in oriented fibrous form and wherein the amylose fraction is complexed with a lipid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Keisuke Morimoto
  • Decaffeination of green coffee with n-butyl acetate
    Patent number: 4562083
    Abstract: Green coffee may be decaffeinated by extracting caffeine from either green coffee or an aqueous extract of green coffee by means of n-butyl acetate. Improved selectivity for caffeine is evidenced by n-butyl acetate, thereby improving the organoleptic quality of the decaffeinated coffee by selectively removing caffeine without extracting a significant amount of non-caffeine solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Martin Gottesman
  • Vienna sausage meat analog
    Patent number: 4556570
    Abstract: A Vienna sausage analog having desirable textural properties is formed from a dispersion of a fat release emulsion phase in a continuous matrix phase, wherein the continuous matrix phase comprises a heat coagulable protein, locust bean or xanthan gum and a particulate unmodified waxy maize starch of branched chain amylopectin polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Rita W. Brander, Teresa A. Raap, Marshall M. Rankowitz
  • Soy milk containing cheese analog
    Patent number: 4556569
    Abstract: A cheese analog product made with vegetable protein rather than dairy protein having a natural pH of about 7.0.+-.0.5. Soy milk in the weight percent range of 9 to 19%, vegetable oil in the weight percent range of 14 to 22%, dairy whey in the weight percent range of 7 to 13%, caseinate in the weight percent of 2 to 10% and water in the weight percent range of 38 to 58% along with any flavorants and colorants comprises the water dispersion cheese analog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Rita W. Brander, Teresa A. Raap, Joseph F. Gessler
  • Method for aromatizing soluble coffee
    Patent number: 4556575
    Abstract: An improved method for aromatizing soluble coffee is described which results in a higher fixation of grinder gas aromas on a glyceride substrate and an improved quality jar aroma. The method involves liquid-liquid contact of the water phase, normally drained from equilibrated grinder gas and discarded, with a glyceride to recover valuable coffee aromatics in the glyceride. Further, reflux of liquid carbon dioxide is used to recover yet more valuable coffee aromatics in the glyceride. A 25 to 70% increase in aromatic yield is realized with an improvement to the aromatic quality of the aromatized glyceride and thereby the aromatized soluble coffee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Saul N. Katz, Donald T. Kearney
  • Continuous chewing gum method
    Patent number: 4555407
    Abstract: A method for continuously forming wide, thin chewing gum slabs suitable for forming sheets and bands ready for packaging in an automatic wrapping machine is disclosed. The method involves compounding a chewing gum paste; extruding the formed gum paste as a wide thin slab through a die mounted on the discharge end of the extruder; cooling the extruded gum paste slab; and passing the gum paste slab through no more than two sets of calender rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Franklin Kramer, Henderikus B. Bruins, Joseph Giacone, Luc L. Carbillet
  • Automatic feeding of elongated products
    Patent number: 4552049
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for feeding elongated products, especially food products having generally square cross-sections. Included is a transporting assembly that has a surface for receiving the products and moving them in a direction generally transverse to their longitudinal axes. An escapement assembly is provided near the downstream end of the transporting assembly in order to move the products one at a time to a product feed assembly. Typically, the product feed assembly pushes the product to a slicing device to thereby provide stacks of sliced product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Martin J. Matzinger, Daniel L. Orloff
  • Method for aromatizing soluble coffee
    Patent number: 4551344
    Abstract: An improved method for aromatizing soluble coffee is described, whereby a grinder gas frost is concentrated in valuable coffee aromatics by a "rapid vent" from a peak pressure of between about 750 psi and 950 psi to a pressure of between about 300 psi and 375 psi, prior to contacting the grinder gas frost with a glyceride. The aromatized soluble coffee is "buttery," "groundsy" and "less sulfery" in character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: George A. Jasovsky, Harold W. Jacquett, Gaetano J. de Ceglie
  • 3-Hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl benzoates
    Patent number: 4547584
    Abstract: Novel 3-hydroxy-4-alkyloxyphenyl benzoates compounds particularly well suited as sweeteners in foodstuff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Jed A. Riemer, Paul R. Zanno, Ronald E. Barnett
  • 3-Hydroxy-4-alkyloxyphenyl aliphatic carbonates
    Patent number: 4546000
    Abstract: Novel 3-hydroxy-4-alkyloxyphenyl aliphatic carbonates particularly well suited as sweeteners in foodstuffs having the following basic structure: ##STR1## .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Zanno, Ronald E. Barnett, Jed A. Riemer
  • 3-Hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl aryl carbonates
    Patent number: 4545999
    Abstract: Novel 3-hydroxy-4-alkyloxyphenyl aryl carbonates particularly well suited as sweeteners in foodstuff, said carbonates having the following basic structure: ##STR1## .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Jed A. Riemer, Paul R. Zanno, Ronald E. Barnett
  • 3-Hydroxy-4-alkyloxyphenyl heterocyclic carbonates
    Patent number: 4544566
    Abstract: Novel 3-hydroxy-4-alkyloxyphenyl heterocyclic carbonates suited as sweeteners in foodstuff, said carbonates having the following basic structure: ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald E. Barnett, Jed A. Riemer, Paul R. Zanno
  • Foodstuffs containing sweetness inhibiting agents
    Patent number: 4544565
    Abstract: Foodstuffs containing sweetness inhibitors having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.7 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl, R.sub.8 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl and wherein R.sub.9 is the group ##STR2## wherein R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.2 hydroxyalkyl, hydroxy and COOH; and the non-toxic salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald E. Barnett
  • Robusta coffee steaming, roasting and blending method
    Patent number: 4540591
    Abstract: A method of steaming, roasting and blending Robusta coffee beans is disclosed. The green Robusta beans are first contacted with steam under pressure in a vessel. The vessel is continuously vented at a pressure of between 1 psig and 5 psig. Next, the steamed Robusta beans may be either dried and subsequently roasted or roasted directly. Roasting in a bubbling bed or with steam under pressure is preferred so that heavy, roasted burnt notes are developed. The roasted Robusta coffee may then be blended with at least one type of roasted Arabica coffee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Jamshed B. Dar, Robert H. Bruckmann, Elisabeth Kelly
  • Recovery of caffeine adsorbed to activated carbon
    Patent number: 4540784
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for recovering caffeine adsorbed to activated carbon by treating the loaded activated carbon with formic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Hag GF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto G. Vitzthum, Peter Werkhoff, Manfred Gehrig
  • Dipeptide sweetener composition
    Patent number: 4536410
    Abstract: A composition which stabilizes a dipeptide sweetener, modifies the physical characteristics of a lipid, or both is disclosed. This composition comprises a hydrated, crystalline dipeptide sweetener and a lipid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Nancy J. Vaccaro, John R. Frost, Alfred C. Glatz, Timothy W. Schenz
  • Red colored meat analog
    Patent number: 4536406
    Abstract: Soy isolate based red meat analog products are colored red with laccaic acid and paprika.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Rita W. Brander, John E. Hammond, John H. Pasch
  • Automatic sheet product line
    Patent number: 4532751
    Abstract: A product line is provided for forming a sheet product composed of products such as bacon slices resting on a pre-cut thin substrate such as a sheet of paper. The substrate sheets are pre-cut to a predetermined length, and a flow of individual products and a flow of pre-cut sheets are coordinated such that the products deposit onto the pre-cut sheets in a predetermined pattern. The line may also include an assembly for reducing the flow rate of the thus formed sheet products, after which the reduced flow is conveyed to a stacking assembly for forming stacks of sheet products of a preselected size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corp.
    Inventors: Timothy G. Mally, James A. Rattmann, Alvin Borsuk
  • Stack forming method and apparatus
    Patent number: 4529082
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming a substantially aligned and uniform stack of flat articles (for example, food products such as sliced sausage products) from a non-uniform stack. The first stack is positioned between at least a pair of stack engaging members which are movable in the same direction, but at different speeds, to converge gradually and engage the articles, thereby moving the articles into a substantially aligned and uniform stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy G. Mally
  • Slicer feed mechanism
    Patent number: 4523501
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for feeding elongated product to a slicer in order to closely hold and control the product immediately before it engages the blade of the slicer and while pulling the product into the slicer blade. The apparatus includes a plurality of rotating augers that engage the product at a location immediately upstream of the slicer blade and that move the product into the blade. The apparatus and method accomplish precision slicing and the formation of uniform slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald E. Mengel