Patents Assigned to NESTECS S.A.
  • Fermented meat trim and its incorporation in meat
    Patent number: 5827550
    Abstract: Prior to incorporating meat trimmings into a meat piece, the trimmings are inoculated with starter culture and fermented with the bacteria from the culture to obtain fermented meat trim particles and then frozen for incorporation into a meat piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Maria Berglund, Lars Goran Bodenas, Jonas Peter Halden
  • Baker's yeasts having a low temperature inactivation property
    Patent number: 5827724
    Abstract: Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are substantially inactive at refrigeration temperatures of 3.degree. C. to 9.degree.-10.degree. C. and recover their activity at temperatures of 13.degree.-14.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Christof Gysler, Herbert Hottinger, Peter Niederberger
  • Process for producing cold water soluble tea extract
    Patent number: 5827560
    Abstract: A continuous process for producing a tea extract which contains solubilized tannins and which has good color. Tea solids are extracted from tea leaves using an extraction liquid to provide a tea extract containing soluble tea solids and insoluble tannins. The insoluble tannins are separated from the tea extract and oxidized and solubilized under raised temperature conditions to provide a solubilized tannin liquor. The solubilized tannin liquor is either returned to the extraction liquid during extraction of tea solids or added to the tea extract after separation of the insoluble tannins. The tea extract which contains solubilized tea tannins is collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Xiaoping Fu, Richard Tien-Szu Liu, Lawrence Nickle, Rachid Rahmani
  • Apparatus for treating a fluid product by injection of steam and the fluid product
    Patent number: 5824266
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a fluid product by injecting steam from a steam inlet and fluid product from a product inlet into a mixing chamber. The mixing chamber includes an outlet for the treated product, a steam injection opening with a first valve member disposed therein and a product injection opening with a second valve member disposed therein. The position of the first and second valve members determines the width of a substantially annular discharge orifice around each valve member. The discharge orifices face one another. The apparatus additionally includes pressure sensitive displacement means which permits movement of the second valve member in response to the pressure in the product inlet. The invention additionally relates to a method for treating a fluid product utilizing the apparatus as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Ernest Badertscher, Paul-Henri Poget
  • Preparation of milk and coffee composition for beverage preparation
    Patent number: 5824357
    Abstract: In order to prepare a beverage composition of the instant white coffee type, milk or a milk derivative is heat treated in order to control the flocculation of the proteins and is mixed with a coffee extract by wet methods before the mixture is dried by spray drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Michel Chaveron, Jurg Schlaginhaufen, Heinz Wyss
  • Fat-containing product structure and preparation thereof
    Patent number: 5820912
    Abstract: A fat-containing confectionery material is passed through an extruder and to and through a flow-constriction die to obtain an extrudate from the die so that the material passed through the extruder and die and so that the extrudate from the die are at a temperature so that the material and extrudate are in a non-pourable state and so that the material passed to the die plastically deforms, and the material is passed by pins positioned in the die so that the extrudate obtained from the die has passages which extend transversely to an extrudate cross-section to obtain a product structure having the passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Stephen Thomas Beckett, Mark Julians Bagby Jury, Malcolm Robert Mackley
  • Method for dosing a pattern of food material
    Patent number: 5820906
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dosing a pattern of food material onto an object e.g. a tray or other food material continuously moved. The apparatus for carrying out the method comprises a dosing assembly comprising a substantially cylindrical tube element having a plurality of circumferential openings defining the pattern and being mounted rotatably; and a hollow core element with at least one supply inlet and at least one discharge orifice, the core element being positioned substantially in the tube element with the discharge orifice facing downwardly, so that when the tube element is rotated about its longitudinal axis the openings are in turn aligned with and brought adjacent to the discharge orifice allowing food material introduced into the core element to be discharged through the opening created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Rune Akesson, Jan Erlandsson, Giuliano Pegoraro
  • Molding of fat-based Confectionery substances
    Patent number: 5820910
    Abstract: Shaped fat-based confectionery articles are prepared by extruding and issuing a fat-based confectionery substance, particularly set chocolate, under pressure and at a temperature below the pour point of the substance into a mold cavity having at least one cavity surface lined with a lining material so that the lined mold cavity is filled with extrudate, releasing the mold from the extrusion pressure and demolding the lining material and molded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Mark Jury
  • Tea extract preparation
    Patent number: 5820901
    Abstract: Tannase covalently immobilized by its glycoside part on an insoluble support. Process for the preparation of a tea extract, in which an aqueous extract of tea leaves is prepared, and the extract is treated at a temperature of 20-65.degree. C. with tannases whose glycoside part is covalently immobilized on an insoluble support, in particular in a tank which contains immobilized tannases in suspension, or in a reactor which includes a fixed bed or a fluidized bed of immobilized tannases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Nicolas, Eric Raetz, Sylviane Reymond, Jean-Luc Sauvageat
  • Preparation of mousse containing sterilized chocolate pieces
    Patent number: 5820913
    Abstract: A composite product of a milk-based mousse and of chocolate product pieces is prepared. To do so, a chocolate product of a fat, cocoa butter and sugar in amounts, by weight, of from 50% to 70% fat, of from 30% to 50% cocoa powder and of from 1% to 10% sugar, is sterilized and a milk-based mixture, which is suitable for being overrun and preparing a mousse, also is sterilized, the sterilized mixture is overrun to obtain the mousse, and the sterilized chocolate product is delivered to and combined with the mousse so that the mousse contains pieces of the sterilized chocolate product therein and so that the pieces are in an amount of between 2% and 10% by weight, and then, the composite product so obtained is introduced into containers refrigerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Walter Grassler, Manfred Wild
  • Preparation of pastas
    Patent number: 5817356
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a process for the preparation of a fully cooked shelf stable or refrigerated acidified pasta product which includes the steps of mixing pasta ingredients with an encapsulated, hot water soluble/cold water insoluble edible acid, forming the dough into a pasta, steaming the pasta a first time, then treating the steamed pasta with water, afterwards steaming the pasta a second time and finally packaging the twice steamed pasta either with heat processing or under modified atmospheric conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Ernest Kemp Gum, Jau Yann Hsu, Hyung Wook Kim, Elaine Regina Wedral
  • Process for producing a sterile milk pap
    Patent number: 5814363
    Abstract: A sterile, degassed milk pap containing milk and a swollen cereal product is prepared by mixing heated milk with a cereal product to swell the cereal product during mixing, and after which, the mixture is heated further so that vegetative microbes are destroyed, the further-heated mixture is degassed to avoid oxidation of the mixture, the degassed mixture is heated under ultra-high-temperature conditions to sterilize the mixture, and then, the sterilized mixture is cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Holger Kuehner
  • Hinged closure for container
    Patent number: 5810188
    Abstract: A hinged closure has a ring member, a lid member, a first hinge which connects the ring and lid members, and a locking tab member, hinge and protrusion member assembly. The first hinge connects the lid and ring so that the lid reciprocates for closure and opening and upon closure, edges of a lid skirt and ring skirt mate. The lid has a wall surface which has a recess portion which extends from the lid skirt at a position which opposes the first hinge, and an indent is positioned in the recess portion. The locking tab member is hinged to the ring and extends from the ring and the protrusion member extends from the tab so that upon lid and ring closure, the tab extends to the lid recess and so that the protrusion removably connects to the indent portion to hold the lid and ring member together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Douglas Novakoski, Gerard Pre
  • Flavorants obtained from fatty acids
    Patent number: 5811149
    Abstract: Flavorants are obtained by collecting differing volatile fractions evolved over differing periods of time from at least one fatty acid into which oxygen is introduced while being heated to a temperature of from 150.degree. C. to 475.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Teh-Kuei Chen, John Stewart Tandy
  • Method for preparing a finely divided soya bean product
    Patent number: 5807602
    Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the preparation of a finely divided soya product, wherein:a) soya beans are dehulled dry,b) the said beans are milled continuously for a short period in the presence of hot water,c) this milled material is heat treated at a temperature above 148.degree. C., the minimum residence time at 148.degree. C. being 30 sec and the minimum residence time at higher temperatures being shorter andd) this suspension is immediately passed through a back-pressure valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Ernst Beutler, Stefan Bodenstab, Brigitte Gredt-Vogel, Michel John Arthur Groux, Martinas Kuslys, Peter Marwood, Michael Schwan
  • Process for reducing spoilage of sterilized liquid products
    Patent number: 5800850
    Abstract: Spoilage of heat-sterilized liquid food products is reduced by preparing the liquid food product, prior to sterilization, by mixing an enzymatically-modified phospholipid composition, particularly an enzymatically-modified phospholipid composition having a degree of conversion of greater than 90%, with the liquid food product. Liquid food products which may be so treated include, in particular, coffee, tea, or cocoa beverage-component solids which provide beverage products. Additionally, an enzymatically hydrolyzed phospholipid composition having a degree of conversion greater than 90% may be obtained by hydrolyzing phospholipids in an aqueous medium, wherein the amount of water is greater than one part per part phospholipids, under agitated conditions so that a degree of conversion greater than 90% is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Gene Frank Clyde, Steven Soon-Young Kwon, Marianne Dorothy Potter, Dharam Vir Vadehra, Elaine Regina Wedral
  • Coating ice confectionery articles with particulate material
    Patent number: 5798131
    Abstract: An article of ice confectionery is coated with a liquid fatty composition, and the fatty-coated article then is coated with dry friable particulate material, particularly cereal flakes and in particular, rice flakes, and non-adhering particulate material is recycled for subsequent application to and coating of further articles. Intact, non-adhering particulate material is recycled with a vibrating screw elevator. In an embodiment, the particulate material coating step is accompanied by cooling of the fatty-coated article so that the particulate material is applied prior to solidification of the fatty coating at its surface. In another embodiment, the particulate-coated article is coated with a liquid fatty material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Francis-Victor Bertrand, Christian Mange
  • Alkylene glycol extraction of antioxidants from vegetable matter
    Patent number: 5795609
    Abstract: Antioxidant substances are obtained from vegetable matter by mixing vegetable matter containing antioxidant substances with a C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkylene glycol and subjecting the mixture to pressure of at least 40 bar to obtain a liquid extract. In carrying out the process, the vegetable matter mixed with the alkylene glycol has a moisture content of from 5% to 30% by weight. Further, to subject the mixture to pressure, the mixture is pressed, and additionally, the process includes filtering the extract to obtain a clear extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Robert Aeschbach, Patricia Rossi
  • Bar for drying pasta
    Patent number: 5791064
    Abstract: Hanging bar for drying long lengths of pasta, having in cross-section a profile which narrows from the top down, and the surface of which has a raised pattern with a repeating motif such that the lengths of pasta rest on several successive asperities of the pattern along their bent-over part in contact with the bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Pietro Russo
  • Process for producing an emulsion product having a meat-like appearance
    Patent number: 5792504
    Abstract: A process for the production of a formulated emulsion product which has a meat-like appearance. A protein source is emulsified and then alkali is added to the emulsion to raise the pH to above 8. The emulsion is rapidly treated in an emulsion mill to causes the protein in the heated emulsion to at least partially coagulate. The heated emulsion is then allowed to coagulate and form striations and is cut into chunks. The formulated emulsion product so produced contains about 45% to 85% by weight moisture and has a chewy texture and a high striated appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Gerhard J. Poppel, Michael G. Rayner, Michael J. Saylock