Patents Assigned to Lipton
  • Dressing or marinade
    Publication number: 20020064588
    Abstract: Food composition suitable as a dressing or marinade 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 a limited amount of time, whereafter the composition reverts to a system of two separate phases; an oil layer and an aqueous layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco,Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Gerald Morley, Begona Varona
  • Pourable fatty dispersions
    Patent number: 6395324
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hardstock fat which is suitable for stabilizing a dispersion of a non-fat phase in a triglyceride oil, including liquid margarines, which hardstock fat consists of a mixture of triglycerides, characterized in that, at least two triglycerides having a melting point >55° C. each have a concentration of at least 5 wt. %, the amount of triglycerides having fatty acid residues with a difference in chain length of the longest and the shortest residue of at least four carbon atoms is at least 15 wt. % and the amount of triglycerides with a melting point of 25-55° C. is ≦25 wt. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jochen Effey, Eckhard Floeter, Rowdy Van Gelder, Jan P Van Iersel
  • Soup and sauce concentrates
    Patent number: 6376004
    Abstract: Provided are soup or sauce base concentrates which are ambient stable concentrates which yield, upon dilution with an aqueous liquid, a finished sauce, soup or gravy. Ambient stability is helped by a low water activity wherein the soup or sauce base concentrate includes at least on water activity lowering component such that the composition has a water activity of below 0.92 and where salt and starch are present in the soup or sauce base concentrate in a ratio of at least 1:0.5 to at most 1:7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gijsbert Kuil, Johannes Frederik Mulder
  • Composition suitable for preparing an oil in water emulsion
    Publication number: 20020044999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising emulsifier, cold hydrating viscosifying agent, and optionally fat and protein, which composition is suitable for use in the preparation of an oil in water emulsion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Elisabeth Coote, Donald Bernard Farrer, Roger Morley Finlayson, Timothy John Foster, Alison Louise Russell
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Publication number: 20020034568
    Abstract: An ambient stable tea based beverage that contains a tea extract and a preservative system. The preservative system contains cinnamic acid, one or more essential oils and one or more pasteurization adjuncts that become fungicidal when activated by heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marian Blyth, Roy Michael Kirby, Hazel Steels, Malcolm Stratford
  • Crystallisation process using ultrasound
    Publication number: 20020031577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the crystallisation of a solid phase from a liquid, characterized in that the liquid during crystallization is subjected to ultrasound in the absence of transient cavitation. In particular the liquid is sonicated under such conditions of time and frequency that nucleation of stable crystals in the liquid is induced without exceeding the cavitation threshold and the occurrence of transient cavitation and the accompagnying flavor deterioration is avoided. The liquid preferably is a triglyceride oil such as a vegetable oil or animal fat, e.g. liquefied milk fat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Berend Jan Arends, Renoo Avinash Blindt, Jo Janssen, Maria Patrick
  • Sprayable browning composition
    Publication number: 20020031578
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sprayable browning composition which, when applied to a foodstuff, imparts a browning and optionally also a flavoring effect to the surface of the substrate to which it is applied. This is achieved by an oil in water emulsion comprising a browning agent and emulsifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Mattheus Cornelissen, Peter Van Den Enden, Cornelis Willem Van Oosten
  • Lactobacillus containing product
    Publication number: 20020028269
    Abstract: A method to produce a food product comprising non-viable Lactobacillus bacteria, wherein the Lactobacillus bacteria are added in such a way that no substantial fermentation of the food product by said Lactobacillus will take place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Cornelis Theodorus Verrips
  • Black tea manufacture
    Patent number: 6348224
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Hanamantagouda Patil, Krishnamurthy Raju, Prakesh Dattatraya Virkar
  • Preparation of a blend of triglycerides
    Publication number: 20020018841
    Abstract: Triglyceride fat comprising a stearin fraction of a high stearic, high oleic sunflower oil and a margarine fat phase comprising said stearin in admixture with a liquid vegetable oil in a weight ratio of 20:80 to 80:20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Robert Bons, Eckhard Floeter, Cornelis Sjouke Stellema
  • Vitamin containing product
    Publication number: 20020015762
    Abstract: A food product comprising menaquinone at a level of 50 to 5,000 &mgr;g per 100 g of product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Thomas Quinlan
  • Process for preparation of vegetable and fruit pieces
    Publication number: 20020012734
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of vegetable or fruit pieces, in particular to a process for preparing vegetable or fruit pieces which are more firm or which show reduced attrition/disintegration when subjected to shear, and which process does not require the addition of divalent cations such as calcium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Raymond Moore, Shiping Zhu
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Publication number: 20020012737
    Abstract: An ambient stable beverage that contains a preservative system that contains cinnamic acid, dimethyl dicarbonate and at least one essential oil. The beverage contains a minimum concentration of preservatives and has a pleasant taste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Michael Kirby, David Savage, Malcolm Stratford
  • Pourable shortening composition
    Publication number: 20020012739
    Abstract: The invention relates to pourable shortening compositions comprising a salt and a citric acid ester of a partial fatty acid glyceride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Divison of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Mattheus Cornelissen, Cornelis Willem Van Oosten, Marcel Caroline Segers
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Publication number: 20010055644
    Abstract: A method for preparing an ambient-stable beverage that is suitable for cold filing. The method involves adding to a beverage at least one pasteurization adjunct that has no appreciable fungicidal activity at a temperature between 0 and 40 degrees C but exhibits fungicidal activity when heated to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C, and raising the temperature of the beverage to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C in order to activate the fungicidal activity of the pasteurisation adjunct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Michael Kirby, Hazel Steels, Malcolm Stratford
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Publication number: 20010055646
    Abstract: A beverage that contains a preservative system that contains 1 to 175 ppm cinnamic acid, 10 to 200 ppm sorbic acid or benzoic acid, and at least one essential oil other than cinnamic acid. Minimizing the concentration of sorbic and benzoic acid in this way enables one to prepare an ambient-stable beverage whilst avoiding the adverse effects that sorbic and benzoic acid can have on taste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marian Blyth, Aminata Yanda Kanu, Roy Micheal Kirby, Malcolm Stratford
  • Black tea manufacture
    Publication number: 20010048956
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing black leaf tea that looks and feels like orthodox processed tea but has the liquor characteristics of a fuller fermented CTC processed tea. The process involves withering a first supply of freshly plucked tea leaves, macerating the withered leaves, allowing the macerated withered leaves to ferment to produce macerated dhool, withering a second supply of freshly plucked tea leaves, mixing the macerated dhool obtained from the first supply of leaves with the withered leaves obtained from the second supply of leaves, rolling the mixture, allowing the rolled mixture to ferment, and drying the fermented mixture to yield black leaf tea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Louisa Blair, Robert Ong?apos;Ondi Mayaka, Andrew David Parry, Peter Joseph Stabler
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D454309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Warner, Robert Croft, Sergio Gedanke
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D454501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicola Tornaletti, Raoul Bianchi
  • Bottle with cap
    Patent number: D456266
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Graham Cross, Fred Verhaar, Timothy Hope Jebb, Sarah Sage