Patents Assigned to Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
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Patent number: 6991140Abstract: Disclosed is a plastic fitment with child-safe properties for attachment to a container component of film-like plastic material, including a tubular body portion defining a through passage having axially spaced ends, a welding rib, and a cap. Also disclosed are flexible pouch or beverage package comprising the fitment and a process for using the fitment.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignees: E.I. du Pont de nemours and Company, Inc., Kornick Lindsay, Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc.Inventors: Raymond Anthony Bourque, Daniel Young-Doo Chung, Richard M. Estabrook, Joseph Kornick, Jose Tirso Olivares-Cordoba, Donna Lynn Visioli
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Patent number: 6977092Abstract: A method is described for processing fruit or vegetables, e.g., cranberries, into two different juices. One of the two juices has a relatively high level of acids. The other of the two juices has a relatively low level of acids. The method of the invention entails providing three juice streams. The first juice stream is passed through a nanofiltration apparatus or some other apparatus that is capable of preferentially removing acidic compounds from the raw fruit or vegetable juice feedstock. This process creates two juice fractions: a juice fraction that is relatively enriched in acids and a juice fraction that is relatively reduced in acids. The second juice stream is combined with the juice fraction that is relatively enriched in acids to create a juice that has a relatively high level of acids. The third juice stream is combined with the juice fraction that is relatively reduced in acids to create a juice that has a relatively low level of acids.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Harold L. Mantius, Lawrence Rose
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Publication number: 20040195200Abstract: A container includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion includes a shoulder that extends away from a neck of the container, and a grip portion. The grip portion defines an integral logo portion and is recessed within the top portion of the container. A waist or groove is provided on adjacent lateral sides of the grip portion and may include a lateral stiffening rib. The bottom portion of the container includes a plurality of vacuum panels that accommodate for internal forces tending to cause collapse of the vacuum panels during a hot-fill process. Any portion of the internal forces not accommodated by the vacuum panels in the bottom portion of the container is accommodated by an auxiliary vacuum panel, which is provided in the grip portion of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Applicant: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Takao Iizuka, Masaaki Sasaki
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Patent number: 6749075Abstract: A container includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion includes a shoulder that extends away from a neck of the container, and a grip portion. The grip portion defines an integral logo portion and is recessed within the top portion of the container. A waist or groove is provided on adjacent lateral sides of the grip portion and may include a lateral stiffening rib. The bottom portion of the container includes a plurality of vacuum panels that accommodate for internal forces tending to cause collapse of the vacuum panels during a hot-fill process. Any portion of the internal forces not accommodated by the vacuum panels in the bottom portion of the container is accommodated by an auxiliary vacuum panel, which is provided in the grip portion of the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2003Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Jr., Takao Iizuka, Masaaki Sasaki
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Patent number: 6733813Abstract: A method is described for processing fruit or vegetables, e.g., cranberries, into two different juices. One of the two juices has a relatively high level of acids. The other of the two juices has a relatively low level of acids. The method of the invention entails providing three juice streams. The first juice stream is passed through a nanofiltration apparatus or some other apparatus that is capable of preferentially removing acidic compounds from the raw fruit or vegetable juice feedstock. This process creates two juice fractions: a juice fraction that is relatively enriched in acids and a juice fraction that is relatively reduced in acids. The second juice stream is combined with the juice fraction that is relatively enriched in acids to create a juice that has a relatively high level of acids. The third juice stream is combined with the juice fraction that is relatively reduced in acids to create a juice that has a relatively low level of acids.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2001Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Harold L. Mantius, Lawrence Rose
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Patent number: 6708741Abstract: In embodiments a beverage dispenser includes a beverage cabinet, a mechanically operable, gravity-fed piston valve that can be controllably opened and closed to dispense beverage in a generally downward direction, a valve actuator supported on the cabinet below the valve and coupled to the valve and a beverage flow path to direct beverage from the valve to a receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2000Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Martin F. Berry, Gorm Bressner, Detlef Westphalen, Zebulon S. Robbins, III, David Beittel, Bill Wright
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Patent number: 6641847Abstract: Isolated cranberry seed oil and components thereof, in a form suitable for use as a foodstuff, dietary supplement, or pharmaceutical composition, are disclosed. The isolated cranberry seed oil or compositions comprising one or a combination of components derived from the cranberry seed oil can be used as anticancer, hypocholesterolemic, antithrombotic, antioxidizing, antiatherogenic, antiinflammatory, and immunoregulatory agents. In addition, the invention features novel methods of extracting cranberry seed oil from cranberry seeds in a form suitable for adding to foodstuffs, dietary supplements, or pharmaceutical compositions.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2000Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventor: Wassef W. Nawar
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Publication number: 20030136754Abstract: A container includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion includes a shoulder that extends away from a neck of the container, and a grip portion. The grip portion defines an integral logo portion and is recessed within the top portion of the container. A waist or groove is provided on adjacent lateral sides of the grip portion and may include a lateral stiffening rib. The bottom portion of the container includes a plurality of vacuum panels that accommodate for internal forces tending to cause collapse of the vacuum panels during a hot-fill process. Any portion of the internal forces not accommodated by the vacuum panels in the bottom portion of the container is accommodated by an auxiliary vacuum panel, which is provided in the grip portion of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2003Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Takao Ilzuka, Masaaki Sasaki
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Patent number: 6575321Abstract: A container includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion includes a shoulder that extends away from a neck of the container, and a grip portion. The grip portion defines an integral logo portion and is recessed within the top portion of the container. A waist or groove is provided on adjacent lateral sides of the grip portion and may include a lateral stiffening rib. The bottom portion of the container includes a plurality of vacuum panels that accommodate for internal forces tending to cause collapse of the vacuum panels during a hot-fill process. Any portion of the internal forces not accommodated by the vacuum panels in the bottom portion of the container is accommodated by an auxiliary vacuum panel, which is provided in the grip portion of the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Jr., Takao Iizuka, Masaaki Sasaki
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Patent number: 6523720Abstract: A container for holding consumable liquids for commercial food service (e.g., bar service) has a body that defines an inner cavity and has a neck extending to an opening. The neck of the container defines a first thread adapted to receive a cap to seal the cavity. The container also defines a second thread, of a diameter larger than the first thread, adapted to mate directly with a thread of a standard threaded pour spout to retain the pour spout on the container for serving liquids from the container cavity. The container is sized to fit within standard bar service speed racks and can be heat-sealed to contain perishable liquids, such as fruit juice or drink mixes.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2000Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventor: Zebulon S. Robbins, III
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Patent number: D438803Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sugiura, Fujio Shioiri, Shinji Shimada
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Patent number: D439521Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1998Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sugiura, Fujio Shioiri, Shinji Shimada
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Patent number: D439844Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sugiura, Fujio Shioiri, Shinji Shimada
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Patent number: D451032Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1999Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Takao Iizuka, Masaaki Sasaki, Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Jr.
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Patent number: D451033Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1999Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Takao Iizuka, Masaaki Sasaki, Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Jr.
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Patent number: D459234Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2001Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Jr., Takao Iizuka, Masaaki Sasaki
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Patent number: D462271Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Jr., Seung Hong, Paul Kelley, Luis Carvallo
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Patent number: D482967Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2002Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Robert F. Kleinrath, John M. McComb, Stephen J. Kras
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Patent number: D487700Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Robert F. Kleinrath, John M. McComb, Stephen J. Kras
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Patent number: D428338Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Takao Iizuka, Tetsuo Takahashi, Raymond A. Bourque, Ralph T. Coley, Jr.