Patents Assigned to Kraft, Inc.
  • Shelf stable acid food dressings containing fibrous protein complexes
    Patent number: 4762726
    Abstract: Shelf-stable acidic food dressings having a pH of less than 4.1 comprising an acidic food dressing vehicle and fibrous xanthan gum-protein complexes which retain their firm fibrous texture under prolonged storage conditions. Also disclosed are methods for preparing dressings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Soucie, Wen-Sherng Chen, Vernon C. Witte, George A. Henry, W. Dennis Drehkoff
  • Methods and apparatus for container filling
    Patent number: 4749008
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accurately packaging viscous food products within a predetermined weight range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter D. Whitney, Donald J. Phoenix
  • Rigid lid system
    Patent number: 4702389
    Abstract: Rigid lid systems for wide mouthed containers for comestibles such as margarine and the like, which are adapted for stacking in shipping containers without interlayer sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1987
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Bozinovich, Robert M. Fontana
  • Imitation cheese products
    Patent number: 4684533
    Abstract: Imitation cheese products are disclosed which consist essentially of from about 0.5 to about 3.0 weight percent kappa carrageenan, from about 1.5 to about 12.0 weight percent gelatin, from about 3 to about 30 weight percent of an edible fat and from about 40 to about 65 weight percent water, in which the gelatin and carrageenan are present as a structurally firm continuous aqueous carrageenan/gelatin phase matrix at refrigeration temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: John F. Kratochvil
  • Fermented oilseed product for preparing imitation dairy products
    Patent number: 4678673
    Abstract: Oilseed products are fermented with a microorganism which produces diacetyl and acetylmethylcarbinol. The microorganism is preferably Lactobacillus caseissprhamnosus ATCC 39595. The fermented oilseed products have a buttery or dairy-like flavor and are useful in preparing imitation dairy products such as imitation cream cheese.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne E. Marshall, Constance J. Hofmann
  • Hydroponic plant collars
    Patent number: 4622775
    Abstract: Collars, for supporting plants by the base of their stems with the major portion of the root structure extending downward into an aqueous hydroponic medium, have upstanding sidewalls and bottom end structures that support the plant while leaving at least about 75 percent of the bottom area open for the roots to extend through. The collars are very small having a volume less than about one tenth that which would normally be considered adequate to conventionally culture plants in a solid support medium. Vertical foils extend radially inward from the sidewall to prevent the roots, in their early stages of development, from spiraling around the sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward P. Glenn, Frank Gething
  • Cheese shredder
    Patent number: 4620838
    Abstract: Apparatus for providing cheese shapes utilize one or more chambers for containing cheese, a ram for forcing the cheese through a perforated area of a die plate at the forward end of each chamber to produce a plurality of extrusions, and a cutter to divide each extrusion into a plurality of shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland E. Miller, Henry Borgardt, John Valek
  • Methods and apparatus for sanitary steam injection
    Patent number: 4614661
    Abstract: A steam injection valve for continuously injecting steam into viscous food products such as relishes, sauces, jams and jellies which are continuously pumped through a steam injection zone. The valve has a sanitary irrotational, interlocking valve stem-valve sleeve construction without substantial internal crevices and which has very low maintenance and may be readily assembled and disassembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Donnie R. White, David F. Hobgood, Larry E. Swim, Leo D. Staley
  • Soft cream cheese product
    Patent number: 4597971
    Abstract: A soft bodied cream cheese product which is readily spreadable at refrigeration temperatures is prepared by blending a cultured cream cheese dressing mix having substantially unhomogenized milkfat with a firm bodied cream cheese curd having homogenized milkfat. The cream cheese product contains by weight a milkfat content of at least about 33 percent and a moisture content not exceeding about 55 percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Loren L. Davis
  • Fermentation production of ascorbic acid from L-galactonic substrate
    Patent number: 4595659
    Abstract: Processes for the fermentation production of L-ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), and to microorganisms (e.g., Candida Norvegensis MF-56, ATCC 20686) and fermentation media which are specifically adapted for such fermentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: John F. Roland, Theodore Cayle, Robert C. Dinwoodie, David W. Mehnert
  • Minutely cross channeled voiding sealing systems
    Patent number: 4586317
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for forming seal in a packaging material through containing a plastic combestible such as process cheese, utilizing sealing element having a plurality of small channels in the surface thereof having a directional component laterally of the longitudinal axis of the sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Clifford J. Bussell
  • Immobilized enzyme systems
    Patent number: 4585738
    Abstract: Immobilized enzyme systems which contain a tea polyphenol-enzyme adduct and the methods for preparing and using such immobilized enzyme systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: John F. Roland
  • Control panel and pedestal for automatic parts manipulator
    Patent number: D283706
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Dart & Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Barrett
  • Butter stamp or the like
    Patent number: D284251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: Dart & Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Stricker
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D291865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Michele A. Carville
  • Trumpet-shaped pasta piece
    Patent number: D293615
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1988
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank E. Blatnick
  • Saxophone-shaped pasta piece
    Patent number: D293616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1988
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank E. Blatnick
  • Guitar-shaped pasta piece
    Patent number: D293730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank E. Blatnick
  • Compartmented packaging container
    Patent number: D297117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Fontana, Audri J. Evans
  • Compartmented packaging cup
    Patent number: D297118
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Fontana, Audri J. Evans