Patents Assigned to Technique
  • Spice extract
    Patent number: 4158708
    Abstract: A process for the production of an aromatic spice extract, which comprises(a) grinding a spice and collecting an aromatic fraction A, consisting of the gases given off during grinding,(b) treating the spice with an apolar organic solvent so as to obtain an aromatic fraction B contained in this apolar solvent, and(c) treating the spice with at least one polar solvent so as to obtain an aromatic fraction C contained in this polar solvent,The combination of the aromatic fractions A, B and C constituting the aromatic spice extract.The polar and apolar organic solvents may be used in mixture, especially in azeotropic mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Jacky Chiovini, Jean-Paul Marion, Siegfried Adamer
  • Bi-axial scanning device for following the outline of a template
    Patent number: 4158768
    Abstract: A bi-axial scanning device for guiding a template copier for machine tools comprises a shaft carrying a scanner with a pointer at one end and adapted to assume a zero position and follow the shape of a plane profile from the zero position. A flat disc spring supports the shaft at an intermediate point for resilient pivoting. An optical device comprises a source of a calibrated light beam and a photo-detector arranged to receive the beam. Either the calibrated light beam or the photo-detector is in a fixed position and the other is displaceable with the pivoting of the shaft in response to the pointer in contact with the template, the displacement being detected by the photo-detector and producing control signals emitted from the photo-detector. An amplifier is connected to the photo-detector to receive the control signals and an outlet transmits the amplified control signals to the machine tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Assignee: S.G.T.C. Societe Generale Internationale de Recherches Techniques et de Consulence S.a.
    Inventor: Riccardo Lavelli
  • Multiperiodical phasemeter
    Patent number: 4157500
    Abstract: The invention provides a multiperiodical phasemeter which is arranged to supply a rectangular wave showing the instantaneous value of the difference to be measured between two waves, said phasemeter being connected to a display means which indicates said instantaneous value of said dephasing between two waves, a multiperiodical phasemeter wherein the phasemeter is connected to a low-pass filter producing the average value of said rectangular wave, differentiator for said average wave, a polarity detector parting into two distinct channels differentiated signals depending on the polarity thereof, a memory circuit consisting of a bistable multivibrator operated by the signals of the two said channels, and whereby the display means consists of an up-down counter operated by the signals of said memory so as to perform counting up or counting-down of the signals issued from the phasemeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Exploitation de Produits et de Techniques pour l'Aeronautique & l'Automatique
    Inventor: Jacques A. G. Nicoli
  • Cocoa shell extract
    Patent number: 4156030
    Abstract: An extract is prepared by treating cocoa shells with acidified ethanol. Other features of the invention appear in the following specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventor: Ingmar B. Eggen
  • Preparation of a powdered cheese product
    Patent number: 4156018
    Abstract: A process for the production of a cheese in powder form which, after reconstitution, has the properties of mozzarella or of a cheese for souffles, which comprises inoculating a colloidal solution having at least partly the composition of a skimmed milk with a lactic ferment, allowing the solution to ferment under aerobic conditions until its pH falls to a value of from about 4.8 to 5.2, heating the fermented solution to obtain curds and serum, separating the curds from the serum, adding to the curds approximately 5 to 50% by weight, based on dry matter, of fats while adjusting the pH of the mixture if necessary to a value of from about 5.1 to 5.7, and drying the mixture obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventor: Tomaso Sozzi
  • Process for preparing a soluble tea product
    Patent number: 4156024
    Abstract: Raw tea tannins which are cold-water insoluble are catalytically oxidized to improve their solubility. The oxidized tannins may then be employed in tea beverage products which are more convenient and desirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventor: Saeed A. Husaini
  • Process for producing proteinic filaments of high nutritive value
    Patent number: 4156028
    Abstract: A process for producing proteinic filaments of high nutritive value, which comprises preparing an alkaline solution containing a mixture of proteins consisting essentially of (1) proteins of vegetable origin and (2) proteins of whey and containing up to 50% by weight of proteins of whey, and passing the solution through spinnerets into an acid coagulation bath to form proteinic filaments therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Jaime Hidalgo, Olivier DE Rham, Paul Van de Rovaart
  • Extracts of vegetable materials
    Patent number: 4154864
    Abstract: A vegetable extract in the form of grains which dissolve instantaneously in water and which have a porous, continuous structure, a smooth surface and an apparent density of from 50 to 300 g/l.A process for the production of a vegetable extract as described above, which comprises extruding a vegetable extract in powder or paste form into a chamber where a subatmospheric pressure prevails, and cutting the extruded product into fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique Pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Risler, Jean Gireau, Pierre Rose, Jean-Pierre Bisson
  • Fabric forms for concrete
    Patent number: 4154061
    Abstract: A fabric and containers constructed therefrom, formed of interwoven warp and weft yarns, characterized by a plurality of continuous reinforcing means woven into the fabric at spaced intervals among and parallel to the warp or weft yarns, or both, each reinforcing means comprising a plurality of periodically spaced unwoven sections lying on one or both sides of and in juxtaposition with the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: Construction Techniques, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoji Umemoto, Yukichi Nakamura
  • Method of electrochemical machining
    Patent number: 4153524
    Abstract: A pulsating current comprising only positive half-waves separated by zero-current intervals is fed into an electrolyte between two electrodes in which the cathode is constituted by a tool and the anode is constituted by a part to be machined in accordance with the profile of the cathode. The electrolyte is of the passivating type which preferably contains between 30 and 50 grams per liter of sodium nitrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Centre Technique des Industries Mecaniques
    Inventors: Andre Roche, Charles Schepacz
  • System for converting the randomly variable energy of a natural fluid
    Patent number: 4149092
    Abstract: Emitters and rotary hydraulic displacement pumps are associated with one or a number of propeller-type transducers and connected to receivers each having a rotary hydraulic displacement motor coupled to an alternator. The emitters are connected to the receivers by means of a hydraulic circuit for an auxiliary fluid which is admitted into at least one shunt-connected energy dissipator and the flow of which is regulated as a function of the random energy variations of the natural fluid. The energy-conversion system is primarily applicable to hydroelectric power plants of the stream or river type, to wind-driven power plants and to ship propulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Assignees: Spie-Batignolles, Societe Generale de Techniques et d'Etudes
    Inventor: Pierre Cros
  • Red pigment production
    Patent number: 4145254
    Abstract: A process for producing a Monascus pigment by growing a microorganism of the genus Monascus in an aqueous nutrient medium under aerobic conditions. The microorganism is grown at a pH-value in the range from 4 to 7 in a first medium which promotes its growth; a first biomass is obtained; the first biomass thus obtained is transferred to a second medium which stimulates the production of pigment; the pH is adjusted to a value in the range from 2 to 4; the growth process is continued for a period of 2 to 7 days at a temperature in the range from 20.degree. to 35.degree. C. and pigment is extracted with a solvent from the second biomass obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: David Shepherd, Mariette S. C. Carels
  • Demineralization of whey
    Patent number: 4138501
    Abstract: A process for the treatment of milk serum in order to obtain a demineralized milk serum, which comprises subjecting the milk serum, in a clarified and skimmed state, to electrodialysis, and then to ion exchange with the aid of a strong cation exchange resin in the H.sup.+ cycle and a weak anion exchange resin in the OH.sup.- cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique Pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Michel Chaveron, Jaak-Juri Sihver, Hubert Duperrex
  • Apparatus for observing cardiac rhythm free of interfering effects
    Patent number: 4137908
    Abstract: A cardiac rhythm observation apparatus that separates and then provides for correlation of cardiographic and electrocardiographic signals has four electrodes for attachment to the chest of a subject. Two of the electrodes connect a high-frequency current for application to the subject. The other two electrodes disposed between the first two are connected to a channel for detecting, filtering and forming a rheocardiographic signal, which channel is connected to a heartbeat counter proper. A channel for eliminating variations in pulmonary impedance is connected to the feed electrodes and delivers a pulmonary rheographic signal to a stage in the detecting channel in which the pulmonary rheographic signal is substracted from the raw rheographic signal. A correlation stage is provided for correlation either with the separated electrocardiographic signal or with stimulation pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Assistance Technique Medicale Serdal S.A. Societe anonyme
    Inventors: Jean Degonde, Regis Freschard, Louis DE Poulepiquet
  • Capsule for beverage preparation
    Patent number: 4136202
    Abstract: A capsule containing a substance for making up a drink using an apparatus, said capsule being composed essentially of a sealed body having the general shape of an acute truncated cone with a rim at its base and of a membrane closing the base, said membrane being provided with a line of weakness delimiting an aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventor: Eric Favre
  • Erosion control mat
    Patent number: 4135843
    Abstract: An erosion control mat of textile material formed of a series of contiguous frame units each comprising a tubular perimeter adapted to be filled with concrete and a center area circumscribed by the tubular perimeter, provided with filter means capable of preventing the loss of erodible material from the center area while permitting the cultivation of plant life within the center area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Construction Techniques, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoji Umemoto, Yukichi Nakamura
  • Powder charge operated apparatus
    Patent number: 4134527
    Abstract: A fastener driving gun with a driving piston actuated by a cartridge to drive a fastener. The piston has an elongated shank with a tapered surface which engages a cooperating surface of the barrel, in the forward position of the piston, to prevent ejection of any substantial portion of the piston in the event of piston breakage. The taper of the piston can be 3% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Societe de Prospection et d'Inventions Techniques Spit
    Inventor: Pierre Termet
  • Process for the production of a vegetable-based sweetened condensed milk
    Patent number: 4129664
    Abstract: A process is provided for the production of a vegetable-based sweetened condensed milk in which a vegetable protein in the form of an aqueous solution or suspension is subjected to partial enzymatic hydrolysis and a mixture containing approximately 4 to 9 parts by weight of fats, 8 to 18 parts by weight of the treated protein, 0 to 14 parts by weight of lactose, 40 to 55 parts by weight of sucrose and 25 to 32 parts by weight of water is prepared. Preferably the protein is subjected to an acetylation treatment before the mixture is prepared. The enzyme may be a microbial protease and the enzyme treatment is preferably carried out over a period of from about 1 to 24 hours at a temperature from about 25.degree. to 65.degree. C and at a pH of about 2 to 9. The protein is preferably a protein of Leguminosae, especially soya, or a yeast protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Jan Kruseman, Pierre Y. Bertschy, Jaime Hidalgo
  • Process for the extraction of vegetable materials
    Patent number: 4129665
    Abstract: A process for extracting vegetable materials in the liquid phase in a group of cells, the "hot cells" containing the most exhausted vegetable material and the "cold cell(s)" the least exhausted vegetable material or fresh material, in which the extract is partially evaporated between the "hot cells" and the "cold cells", wherein extraction liquid is added to the partially evaporated extract in a quantity at least equal to the quantity of evaporated liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Societe d'Assistance Technique pour Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventor: Brian Clark
  • Apparatus for loading and compressing solid waste in a box-like structure
    Patent number: 4128181
    Abstract: An apparatus for loading and compressing solid waste in a box-like container mounted on a road vehicle for the collection and the transportation of waste. The apparatus is equipped with a lifting shovel hinged at one of its ends onto the solid structure that carries the box and further with a compressing shovel, also hinged onto the container and on a shaft common to both the lifting and compressing shovels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1978
    Assignee: BAT Brevets et Applications Techniques S.A.
    Inventor: Mario Beronia