Patents Assigned to The Folger Coffee Company
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Patent number: 9756869Abstract: A ground roast coffee tablet which is capable of being brewed in a conventional automatic drip coffee maker, and which exhibits sufficient strength to withstand all aspects of manufacture, handling, packaging, transport without breakage but also readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing, is made by subjecting conventional ground, roasted coffee to a multi-step compaction process in which at least two compression steps are carried out in the same compaction die.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: THE FOLGER COFFEE COMPANYInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Patent number: 9706785Abstract: The present invention provides to a method of preparing a flavored coffee using reduced amount of flavorant, and a coffee composition used for preparing such flavored coffee. An amount of colorant is used to replace up to 20.1% by weight of the flavorant present in a flavored coffee beverage. The flavor perception of the coffee beverage containing reduced amount of flavorant is equivalent to that of the original coffee beverage containing regular amount of flavorant.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: THE FOLGER COFFEE COMPANYInventor: Paul Jeffrey Breha, III
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Patent number: 9603376Abstract: A ground roast coffee tablet which is capable of being brewed in a conventional automatic drip coffee maker, and which exhibits sufficient strength to withstand all aspects of manufacture, handling, packaging, transport without breakage but also readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing, is made by subjecting conventional ground, roasted coffee to a multi-step compaction process in which at least two compression steps are carried out in the same compaction die.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: THE FOLGER COFFEE COMPANYInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Patent number: 9474290Abstract: A ground roast coffee tablet which is capable of being brewed in a conventional automatic drip coffee maker, and which exhibits sufficient strength to withstand all aspects of manufacture, handling, packaging, transport without breakage but also readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing, is made by subjecting conventional ground, roasted coffee to a multi-step compaction process in which at least two compression steps are carried out in the same compaction die.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: THE FOLGER COFFEE COMPANYInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Patent number: 9474291Abstract: A ground roast coffee tablet which is capable of being brewed in a conventional automatic drip coffee maker, and which exhibits sufficient strength to withstand all aspects of manufacture, handling, packaging, transport without breakage but also readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing, is made by subjecting conventional ground, roasted coffee to a multi-step compaction process in which at least two compression steps are carried out in the same compaction die.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: THE FOLGER COFFEE COMPANYInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Patent number: 9242782Abstract: A packaging system for roast and ground coffee is disclosed. The packaging system can comprise a container, an overcap, and a visual indicator. The visual indicator can indicate a pressure difference between the inside of the packaging system and the outside of the packaging system by moving from a concave outwardly position to a concave inwardly position. The visual indicator can comprise a bubble.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2008Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventor: Gerard Laurent Buisson
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Publication number: 20150342416Abstract: The invention provides a canister used for food product such as coffee and a packaging system comprising the same. At least 50% of the surface area of the canister sidewall is flat except it is deviated with 1-4 concaved grooves. The canister is made of a polymeric material at a usage of no more than 1.0 grams per cubic inch of the volume of the canister. When sealed, the canister can maintain its shape under a top load of at least 2.0 pounds per cubic inch of its volume and a vacuum pressure of at least 18 kPa caused by higher external pressure compared to internal pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2014Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Darren Robling, Gregory Peter Dalea
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Publication number: 20140370181Abstract: The present invention provides a coffee composition for use with a single serve beverage unit. The beverage unit consists of a container having a first structure to enable the introduction of a liquid such as hot water into the container to contact the coffee composition and a second structure to enable the release of a coffee extract out of the container. The coffee composition comprises various coffee ingredients demonstrating an improved property, or an improved balance between two or more of properties, selected from aroma, strength, flavor, cup color, acidity, density, extractability, bed permeability, brewing time, yield, structural integrity, quality consistence and uniformity, and cost-effectiveness. Methods of using such coffees are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Jerry Douglas Young, Robert David Piotrowski, Donald Lee Hughes
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Patent number: 8900648Abstract: Processes for controlling strength of an extracted beverage including providing a pseudo packed bed of an extractable beverage material and contacting at least one liquid extraction stream with the pseudo packed bed of beverage material at a selected depth to obtain at least one zone of minimum extraction and at least one zone of maximum extraction. As the depth at which the liquid extraction stream is introduced into the packed bed increases, the zone of minimum extraction increases and the zone of maximum extraction decreases.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Paul Ralph Bunke, Alisa Anne Bolinger, Jianjun Justin Li, Athula Ekanayake
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Publication number: 20140234518Abstract: A ground roast coffee tablet which is capable of being brewed in a conventional automatic drip coffee maker, and which exhibits sufficient strength to withstand all aspects of manufacture, handling, packaging, transport without breakage but also readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing, is made by subjecting conventional ground, roasted coffee to a multi-step compaction process in which at least two compression steps are carried out in the same compaction die.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Publication number: 20140234519Abstract: A ground roast coffee tablet which is capable of being brewed in a conventional automatic drip coffee maker, and which exhibits sufficient strength to withstand all aspects of manufacture, handling, packaging, transport without breakage but also readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing, is made by subjecting conventional ground, roasted coffee to a multi-step compaction process in which at least two compression steps are carried out in the same compaction die.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Patent number: D720230Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Darren Robling, Gregory Peter Dalea
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Patent number: D720231Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Darren Robling, Gregory Peter Dalea
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Patent number: D721588Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Daren Robling, Gregory Peter Dalea
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Patent number: D726020Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Jonathan Edward Rathbone, Christopher Steven Hart
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Patent number: D726021Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Jonathan Edward Rathbone, Christopher Steven Hart, Gregory P. Dalea
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Patent number: D743265Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Jonathan Edward Rathbone, Christopher Steven Hart
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Patent number: D743266Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Jonathan Edward Rathbone, Christopher Steven Hart
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Patent number: D743267Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Jonathan Edward Rathbone, Christopher Steven Hart, Gregory Peter Dalea
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Patent number: D743268Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Jonathan Edward Rathbone, Christopher Steven Hart, Gregory Peter Dalea