Patents Assigned to A. E. Staley Manufacturing
  • Dry thinned starches process for producing dry thinned starches and products and compositions thereof
    Patent number: 5817180
    Abstract: A novel dry thinned starch produced by continuously feeding a mixture of a base starch and a chemical which hydrolyses the glycosidic linkage of starch to a plug flow reactor, passing the mixture through the reactor, recovering the mixture and neutralizing the mixture. The present invention also includes starches produced by the process and paper products produced from the starch and coated with the starch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: A. E. Staley Manufacturing
    Inventors: Cameron E. Ferguson, Lawrence S. Ferro, Robert Mooth, Michael D. Harrison
  • Sweetener composition
    Patent number: 4737368
    Abstract: A mono- and di-saccharide base sweetener composition is provided which consits essentially of a blend of fructose and sucrose. Such sweetener composition is useful for sweetening a wide variety of foodstuffs and other edible formulations. When such sweetener composition is used to sweeten foods, smaller quantities of sweetener is required as compared to that which is needed for equal sweetening power when sucrose is used as the sole sweetening ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: A. E. Staley Manufacturing
    Inventors: Cynthia K. Batterman, Michael E. Augustine, James R. Dial