Patents Assigned to Ranks Hovis McDougall p.l.c.
  • Method of producing pasta
    Patent number: 4539214
    Abstract: A method of producing pasta which is rehydratable in under ten minutes by extruding a mixture of semolina and/or wheat flour and water having a moisture content of between 28% and 40% and cutting it into lengths to form a cut product having a wall thickness of between 0.3 and 0.7 mm and subjecting the product without expanding it to dry super-heated steam at 102.degree. C. to 140.degree. C., in the absence of water, for seven to twenty minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Assignee: Ranks Hovis McDougall p.l.c.
    Inventors: Maurice J. Winter, Peter R. Dawe
  • Method of and apparatus for wrapping articles
    Patent number: 4517786
    Abstract: Wrapping fragile or easily collapsible articles in foil, for example, aluminium foil by feeding the articles in succession along a track or slideway, forming a tube of foil about the articles, twisting the leading article and its surrounding foil about the main axis of the tube and severing the tube at the twist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Ranks Hovis McDougall p.l.c.
    Inventor: Jeffrey G. Barker