Patents Assigned to Unilever Bestfoods, North America, a division of Conopco, Inc.
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Patent number: 6805042Abstract: This invention is directed to an apparatus for brewing a beverage. The apparatus has a brew funnel with an elevation device that enables the end user to brew beverage, hot or cold, with a filter and loose beverage precursor and with beverage precursor packaged within a filter pack.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2002Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Mauro Dominick Mordini, Michael Charles Cirigliano, Joseph Vaitkus
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Patent number: 6792847Abstract: A brewing machine suitable to deliver beverage enhancing component to a beverage precursor is described. The brewing machine may be used to dispense a ready-to-drink tea beverage having superior aroma, flavor and color characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods North America, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: John William Tobin, Martin John Spisak
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Patent number: 6786136Abstract: This invention is directed to an apparatus for brewing a beverage. The apparatus has a brew funnel, a key and an elevation device so that only one brand of beverage can be brewed to thereby prevent harm and confusion to consumers.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Michael Charles Cirigliano, Mauro Dominick Mordini
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Publication number: 20040170741Abstract: Use of at least one compound selected from phytosterols, phytostanols, synthetic analogues thereof and their esterified derivatives as a creaminess enhancer in a food composition comprising a dairy product or derivative or analogue thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Robertus Martinus Diks, Ian Stewart Galloway, Kevin John Povey
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Publication number: 20040156973Abstract: The invention provides a kit for preparing salads comprising at least one ingredient (I) which is cooked and at least one fruit, vegetable or cereal product, wherein the kit comprises; a flavoured cooking paste for cooking ingredient (I), which cooking paste comprises from 40 to 80% wt fat, based on the weight thereof, and a dressing for contacting with the at least one fruit, vegetable or cereal product, which dressing comprises from 0 to 60% wt fat based on the weight thereof. The kit provides an easy and convenient of preparing tasty, healthy salads comprising a cooked food ingredient. A method of making a salad using the kit and also the salad prepared from the kit is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2004Publication date: August 12, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Wayne Gerald Morley
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Publication number: 20040151823Abstract: An edible oil in water emulsion comprising 40-99 wt. % of a continuous aqueous phase which phase contains 0.05-15 wt. % of a protein calculated on aqueous phase and, preferably, a thickener in an amount of 0.01-3 wt. %, 1-60 wt. % of a dispersed fat phase, the fat phase comprising 0.01-0.2 wt. % of alpha-tocopherol and a triglycerides mixture containing 10-80 wt. % of mono-unsaturated fatty acid residues, 10-80 wt. % of polyunsaturated fatty acid residues, 3-15 wt. % of omega-3 fatty acid residues, the balance up to 100 wt. % consisting of saturated fatty acid residues, fatty acid residues being calculated on fat phase, which emulsion is characterized in that it contains 0.005-0.05 wt. % of delta-tocopherol, while the weight ratio of delta-tocopherol and alpha-tocopherol in the emulsion is selected from the range 5 to 0.25.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Charles Daniels, Christel Karine Reiffers-Magnani
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Publication number: 20040118839Abstract: An easy-opening microwavable food package which can be used both to cook and serve the food. It is easily opened and yet convenient as a vehicle for eating, so as to avoid the necessity for separate dishes which will need to be washed. The package is designed to permit venting of the package during cooking while minimizing the possibility for a messy and inadvertent escape of product onto, for example, the floor and walls of the microwave. The package comprises a first tear facilitator for removing the top end of the package for venting and a second tear facilitator for removing a further section of the side wall. The second tear facilitator promotes tearing of the side wall at a point spaced from and below the tear promoted by the first tear facilitator and serves to enhance access to the food for eating. The tear facilitators may, e.g., comprise pairs of notches in the walls of the package.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: John Michael Hughes, Sheila Wenke
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Publication number: 20040109928Abstract: A beverage product comprises a container holding a liquid beverage component and nitrogen gas, said liquid beverage comprising octenylsuccinic acid modified starch, and at least one surface active agent selected from the group consisting of acyl lactylate salts, proteins, protein hydrolysates, sucrose esters and mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: John O'Connell
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Publication number: 20040105923Abstract: A beverage product comprises a container holding a liquid beverage component and sufficient nitrogen gas to give a gas pressure in the head space of at least about 3.3 bar at 5° C., said liquid beverage comprising an organoleptically acceptable foam-maintaining system such that when the liquid beverage is poured from the container a foam is generated, the volume of which is maintained at greater than about 80% of its initial volume for a period of at least about 10, preferably at least about 30 minutes. The initial volume of the foam may be less than about 20% of the volume of the liquid beverage. The foam-maintaining system may comprise octenylsuccinic acid modified starch, and at least one surface active agent selected from the group consisting of acyl lactylate salts, proteins, protein hydrolysates, sucrose esters, and mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: John O'Connell
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Publication number: 20040071857Abstract: Preparation of a fat phase suited for the preparation of food compositions which contain liquid or solid particles stably dispersed in the fat phase, which preparation comprises mixing 0.25-20 wt. % of a structuring triglyceride fat A with 0-19.75 wt.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Johanna Maria Besselink, Eckhard Floter, Hindrik Huizinga, Gautam Satyamurthy Nivarthy, Jan Alders Wieringa
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Publication number: 20040071856Abstract: Process for the preparation of an edible triglyceride fat which is able to structure a liquid oil which process comprises the stepsType: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Eckhard Floeter
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Publication number: 20040065094Abstract: A process for the production of a frozen vegetable or part thereof, wherein said process comprises the steps:Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Paul Ormerod, Julie Debra Ralfs, Christopher Michael Sidebottom
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Publication number: 20040064970Abstract: A device 1 for treating fabrics in a tumble dryer during multiple tumble drying cycles, the device comprising a support member 2 and a reservoir 6 for storing fabric treatment composition attachable to said support member 2, the support member including one or more suction cups for attachment of the support member 2 to the tumble dryer interior, and preferably the door, wherein the suction cup/s 8 have one or more respective suction cup actuators 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Unilever Bestfoods North America, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Uwe Hagemann, Raymond Honey, David Jones, Colin Watt Kerr, Jonathan Edward Tew
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Patent number: D500444Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2002Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Paul Drake, David Helps, Timothy Hope Jebb, Heleen Mees, Britta Luebbert, Fred Verhaar
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Patent number: D488191Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods North America, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Colin Elliott, Lesley Claire Fernandez, Robert Waller Riley, Robert Michael Scott
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Patent number: D489004Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2003Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Lisa Parman
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Patent number: D489619Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods North America, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Bartlett Henderson Goodell, John Michael Hughes
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Patent number: D490298Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: William John Maskell
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Patent number: D492196Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2003Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Petr Hyhlik, Jiri Prokop
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Patent number: D499639Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2004Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Unilever Bestfoods, North America, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Philip Bordet-Stead, David Helps