Patents Assigned to The Folger Coffee Company
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Publication number: 20120276252Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Paul Ralph Bunke, Alisa Anne Bolinger, Jianjun Justin Li, Athula Ekanayake
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Publication number: 20120231136Abstract: 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: May 23, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: THE FOLGER COFFEE COMPANYInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Publication number: 20120231137Abstract: 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: May 23, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Patent number: 8225712Abstract: 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: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Paul Ralph Bunke, Alisa Anne Bolinger, Jianjun Justin Li, Athula Ekanayake
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Patent number: 8178141Abstract: Articles of manufacture and methods for absorbing gasses released by roaster coffee packed in hermetically sealed containers.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Athula Ekanayake, Paul Ralph Bunke
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Publication number: 20120015094Abstract: 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: March 28, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: THE FOLGERS COFFEE COMPANYInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Patent number: 8062684Abstract: A general object of the present invention is to utilize “delayed dilution” of a concentrated extract to provide a beverage brewing system which immediately (upon customer selection) provides selective dilution (based on individual consumers selections) of a fresh-brewed coffee extract after the extract has been allowed to brew and held as an extract before dilution. It is also a general object of the present invention to utilize the undiluted extract to mix and dissolve other beverage compounds to make flavored coffees, cappuccinos, lattes, and the like. “Delayed mixing” and/or “delayed filtering” may also be utilized.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventors: Roger William Gutwein, Christopher Wade Connor
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Publication number: 20110212240Abstract: Processes for isolating bitter compounds for use in food and beverage products entailing contacting a bitter compound composition with an adsorbent to adsorb bitter compounds from the bitter compound composition, desorbing the bitter compounds from the adsorbent to obtain a bitter compound isolate, and adding the bitter compound isolate to a food or beverage product to enhance the flavor thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: THE FOLGERS COFFEE COMPANYInventors: Gerhard Norbert Zehentbauer, Paul Ralph Bunke, Athula Ekanayake, Jerry Douglas Young, Oliver Frank, Thomas Frank Hofmann, Simone Blumberg
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Patent number: 8003145Abstract: System for making and delivering a customized beverage product to a consumer having a user interface, a customization director in communication with a customization data store and the user interface, wherein the customization director includes executable instructions for determining a users customized formulation; and a beverage delivery system in communication with the customization director, wherein the beverage delivery system includes executable instructions for delivering a customized beverage product. Method for delivering a customized beverage product to an individual including the steps of obtaining consumer preference data; determining a consumer beverage formulation corresponding to the consumer preference data; and providing the consumer a customized beverage corresponding to the customized beverage formulation, utilizing one or more of delayed dilution, delayed mixing, and delayed filtering, in any order.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventors: Roger William Gutwein, Christopher Wade Connor
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Publication number: 20110076370Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: THE FOLGERS COFFEE COMPANYInventors: Paul Ralph Bunke, Alisa Anne Bolinger, Jianjun Justin Li, Athula Ekanayake
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Patent number: 7892390Abstract: A multilayered flexible laminate comprising: a first lamina having a inlet channel; a second lamina having a outlet channel; the first and second laminas joined to one another about an unbonded valve region having open and closed orientations; wherein the first and outlet channels are in gaseous communication when the valve region is in the open orientation.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventor: Douglas Bruce Zeik
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Patent number: 7833561Abstract: Improved liquid coffee concentrates that have furfuryl acetate to 4-ethyl guaiacol ratio values that approach the furfuryl acetate to 4-ethyl guaiacol ratio values of fresh brewed coffees brewed with the same coffees used to produce said coffee concentrates are shown. Methods of evaluating and adjusting a liquid coffee concentrate's furfuryl acetate to 4-ethyl guaiacol ratio value are also shown.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2005Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventors: Glenn James Dria, Jerry Douglas Young, Raul Victorino Nunes, Jianjun Justin Li, Donald Ray Patton
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Patent number: 7815955Abstract: 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 pseudo packed bed increases, the zone of minimum extraction increases and the zone of maximum extraction decreases.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventors: Paul Ralph Bunke, Alisa Anne Bolinger, Jianjun Justin Li, Athula Ekanayake
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Publication number: 20100260915Abstract: 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 2, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: THE FOLGERS COFFEE COMPANYInventor: Jerry Douglas Young
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Patent number: 7763300Abstract: The present invention relates to non-segregating, non-agglomerated flavored coffee compositions. In particular, the present invention relates to novel flavored coffee compositions that minimize or inhibit the segregation and separation of constituent components, and the corresponding processes for making such compositions. The flavored coffee compositions herein are characterized as having a roast and ground, an instant coffee component, or mixtures thereof. The roast and ground coffee component will have a moisture level in the range of from about 1% to about 15%, a particle density in the range of from about 0.1 g/cc to about 0.45 g/cc, and a mean particle size distribution in the range of from about 400 microns to about 1300 microns. The instant coffee components used herein will have a particle density in the range of from about 0.1 g/cc to about 0.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2004Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Alan Sargent, Douglas Craig Hardesty
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Patent number: 7713567Abstract: A method for altering a coffee source component profile of an aged coffee source to mimic a target coffee component profile of a non-aged coffee source, wherein the aged coffee source and the non-aged coffee each comprise multiple taste contributing acids.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventors: Jerry Douglas Young, Douglas Craig Hardesty
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Patent number: 7608290Abstract: The present invention relates to non-segregating, non-agglomerated flavored coffee compositions. In particular, the present invention relates to novel flavored coffee compositions that minimize or inhibit the segregation and separation of constituent components, and the corresponding processes for making such compositions. The flavored coffee compositions herein are characterized as having a roast and ground, an instant coffee component, or mixtures thereof. The roast and ground coffee component will have a moisture level in the range of from about 1% to about 15%, a particle density in the range of from about 0.1 g/cc to about 0.45 g/cc, and a mean particle size distribution in the range of from about 400 microns to about 1300 microns. The instant coffee components used herein will have a particle density in the range of from about 0.1 g/cc to about 0.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2004Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Alan Sargent, Douglas Craig Hardesty
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Patent number: 7527840Abstract: A multilayered flexible laminate is disclosed that includes a first lamina having a inlet channel; a second lamina having a outlet channel; the first and second laminas joined to one another about an unbonded valve region having open and closed orientations; wherein the inlet channel and the outlet channels are in gaseous communication when the valve region is in the open orientation.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: The Folgers Coffee CompanyInventor: Douglas Bruce Zeik
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Patent number: D708953Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: The Folger Coffee CompanyInventors: Darren Robling, Gregory Peter Dalea