Patents Assigned to Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
  • Fruit extraction and infusion
    Patent number: 5419251
    Abstract: Extraction, especially of firm fruit such as cranberries, with improved yields of high quality, low tannin juices by using an improved countercurrent extractor employing longitudinal members positioned between adjacent flights and reinfusion of decharacterized, extracted fruit pieces with infusion syrups, such as juices from fruits other than that extracted, to produce a fruit food product of various flavors having a desired level of inherent soluble fruit component, without the need to bleed off spent syrup as a byproduct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold L. Mantius, Peter R. Peterson
  • Fruit extraction and infusion
    Patent number: 5320861
    Abstract: Extraction, especially of firm fruit such as cranberries, with improved yields of high quality, low tannin juices by using an improved countercurrent extractor employing longitudinal members positioned between adjacent flights and reinfusion of decharacterized, extracted fruit pieces with infusion syrups, such as juices from fruits other than that extracted, to produce a fruit food product of various flavors having a desired level of inherent soluble fruit component, without the need to bleed off spent syrup as a byproduct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold L. Mantius, Peter R. Peterson
  • Decolorization of pink grapefruit juice
    Patent number: 4244984
    Abstract: Pink grapefruit juice or concentrate is decolorized by vacuum filtration through a bed of coarse diatomaceous earth particles at a pressure differential from 10 to 25 inches of mercury and at a flow rate from 0.1 to 0.5 gal/min/ft.sq. to form a product suitable for beverage use or for blending with white grapefruit juice for beverage use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventor: Siegfried Regling
  • Container with handle
    Patent number: D402895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sugiura
  • Container with handle
    Patent number: D404308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sugiura
  • Container with handle
    Patent number: D407650
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sugiura
  • Handle for a container
    Patent number: D414109
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Akiho Ota, Junichi Itokawa, Takao Iizuka, Raymond A Bourque, Nickolas Latorre
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D414116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Nickolas Latorre, Dean R. Lindsay, Tirso J. Olivares
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D418422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond A. Bourque, Nickolas Latorre, Dean R. Lindsay, Tirso J. Olivares
  • Container with handle
    Patent number: D425418
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sugiura, Fujio Shioiri, Shinji Shimada, Takao Iizuka