Patents Examined by Kepplinger
  • Patent number: 5591468
    Abstract: A package and a method for making a package which allows for the central processing of fresh red meat is disclosed which includes a tray, a first film enclosing the product within the tray and a second film, which is removed at retail, enclosing the first film. The first film and the second film are sealed to the inner periphery and the outer periphery, respectively, of the single flange of a conventional foamed or nonfoamed tray. The first film is a heat shrinkable film which is sealed to the inner periphery of the flange forming a first seal, trimmed outboard of the first seal, thereby forming an excess portion of the first film outboard of the first seal, and then subjected to a sufficiently high temperature to shrink the excess portion and thereby expose a sealing area on the outer periphery of the flange. The second film is then sealed to the sealing area on the outer periphery of the flange, forming a second seal such that the second film encloses the first film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
    Inventors: Henry W. Stockley, III, Art T. Krebs
  • Patent number: 5589218
    Abstract: Methods are claimed for producing egg-yolk containing artificial egg-yolk materials and egg-white or other thermally non-reversile gell formers. The egg-yolk is produced in the form of a cylinder, which is useful to be cut into disks, which after being encapsulated into an edible membrane, are used in combination with egg-white to form egg-products which may be fried or poached in a similar manner as real eggs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Inventor: Eustathios Vassiliou
  • Patent number: 5587193
    Abstract: A process for enrichment of animal food with fat is described wherein air cell bubbles are introduced to a highly dense product in the extrusion system by the utilization of carbonation technology into the oils and fats with various functional and textural properties. It includes the use of low to highly charged oils and fats with various gases under pressure injected into the extrusion stream within the extruder under lower pressure to assist in the expansion of the extrudate once it leaves the die nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Assignee: MJM Technologies
    Inventor: Massoud Kazemzadeh
  • Patent number: 5583041
    Abstract: Polyhalogenated biphenyl compounds can be degraded by white-rot fungus grown on a sugar beet pulp substrate. The method is useful for bioremediation of materials contaminated with polyhalogenated biphenyl compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Mycotech Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford A. Bradley, Robert D. Kearns, Pauline P. Wood, William E. Black
  • Patent number: 5580784
    Abstract: An apparatus utilizing chemical sensors to determine whether a particular sample vial is evidencing bacterial growth includes directing radiation sources having closely spaced wavelengths into the sample vial. Emissions from the chemical sensor due to the two spectrally spaced radiation sources are monitored, and a ratio of their differences and sums is calculated. The inventive ratio eliminates station-to-station variation between the radiation sources or detectors, and also any lot-to-lot variations in the sensor materials. An absolute indication of the conditions within the sample vial may thus be taken eliminating the prior art, station-to-station variations and lot-to-lot variations in the sensors resulted in varying readings for positive and negative samples. Thus, any one reading could not be utilized to make a prediction of whether a particular sample is a positive or a negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson and Company
    Inventor: Klaus W. Berndt
  • Patent number: 5580599
    Abstract: An improved method and device for mechanically producing pretzels. The method and device produces strings of dough having precisely predetermined cross-sectional and longitudinal dimensions. The invention provides a high throughput rate of pretzels and low rejection rate, together with simple operability, such that the device is cost-effective even in small bakeries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Muk Metall-Und Kunststoff-Vertriebs GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Fehr
  • Patent number: 5580590
    Abstract: A chewing gum composition is provided comprising a water soluble gum portion and a water insoluble gum base portion including an elastic protein-based polymer. Additionally, a method for creating an environmentally acceptable chewing gum is provided comprising the steps of creating a chewing gum base that includes a sufficient amount of elastic protein-based polymer to create a resultant chewing gum that is more environmentally acceptable than a chewing gum without elastic protein-based polymer, and adding to the chewing gum base a water soluble portion to create the resultant chewing gum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
    Inventor: Scott E. Hartman
  • Patent number: 5578339
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a sweetener, in which sucrose is converted enzymatically into a saccharide mixture which is called "isomerized sucrose" and has a disaccharide content of more than 85% by weight, then non-isomerized remaining sucrose is removed from the latter by enzymatic and/or H.sup.+ ion-catalyzed cleavage, and this product is catalytically hydrogenated. Preferably either before or after the catalytic hydrogenation, the resulting mixture is subjected to a chromatographic separation. The sweeteners prepared by this process contain either a mixture of 10 to 50% by weight of 6-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol; 2 to 20% by weight of 1-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol; and 30 to 70% by weight of 1-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-mannitol or of 5 to 10% by weight of 6-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol; 30 to 40% by weight of 1-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol; and 45 to 60% by weight of 1-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-mannitol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Markwart Kunz, Hanspeter Degelmann, Wolfgang Wach, Mohammad Munir, Jorg Kowalczyk, Manfred Vogel
  • Patent number: 5578487
    Abstract: A method of dispersing a hydrocarbon includes the steps: providing a bacterium selected from the following group: ATCC 85527, ATCC 75529, and ATCC 55638, a mutant of any one of these bacteria possessing all the identifying characteristics of any one of these bacteria, and mixtures thereof; autoclaving the bacterium to derive a dispersant solution therefrom; and contacting the dispersant solution with a hydrocarbon to disperse the hydrocarbon.Moreover, a method for preparing a dispersant solution includes the following steps: providing a bacterium selected from the following group: ATCC 75527, ATCC 75529, and ATCC 55638, a mutant of any one of these bacteria possessing all the identifying characteristics of any one of these bacteria, and mixtures thereof; and autoclaving the bacterium to derive a dispersant solution therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard L. Tyndall
  • Patent number: 5578488
    Abstract: A method of degrading trinitrotoluene (TNT) includes contacting the TNT with intra-amoebic isolate CR-1, ATCC 75528.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Martin Marietta Energy System, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Tyndall, Arpad Vass
  • Patent number: 5576041
    Abstract: Fried food products are produced by feeding a dough to a nip between a pair of contrarotating rollers arranged with their curved surfaces in contact with each other, and each of the rollers has grooves indented into its curved surface. The rollers push the dough into the grooves and form the dough into a lattice comprising an array of ridges imparted to the dough by one of the rollers, which ridges are spaced apart from and extend in substantially the same direction as each other, and an array of ridges imparted to the dough by the other roller, which ridges are spaced apart from and extend in substantially the same direction as each other. The direction in which the ridges of one array extend are at an angle to that of the other array so that the ridges of one array intersect the ridges of the other, and the contacting portions of the curved surfaces of the rollers form apertures in the dough between the intersecting ridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: United Biscuits (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Andrew E. C. Clow, Brian D. Hill
  • Patent number: 5576036
    Abstract: A pre-baked microwaveable dough composition comprising a dough of flour, plasticizer, water, and a leavening agent; a crisping agent dispersed across the dough; and, optionally, a topping wherein said dough comprises from about 0 wt-% to 50 wt-% water and from about 15 wt-% to 35 wt-% plasticizer. The invention also comprises a method of preparing a pre-baked microwaveable dough composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: The Pillsbury Company
    Inventors: Peter S. Pesheck, Tammy McIntyre, Liza Levin
  • Patent number: 5576038
    Abstract: A coextruded film suitable for packaging a flowable material, particularly milk, in a form, fill and seal machine comprises a core layer of a blend of high density polyethylene and linear low density polyethylene and skin layers of a blend of linear low density polyethylene and ethylene-methyl acrylate copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: James River Paper Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Neal E. Moore, James P. Markey, Jimmy M. Givens
  • Patent number: 5576040
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for obtaining sterile milk, wherein the calcium ion content is reduced preferably to half of the naturally occurring amount by means, for example, of ion exchange or dialysis, and the milk is then filtered sterile, and if desired calcium ions are added again to restore the natural content.The product thus obtained has all of the biological activities as well as virtually the original composition, but it is free of bacteria, fungi and spores and will keep for a longer time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Biotest Pharma GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Moller, Wolfgang Stephan, Henry Hies
  • Patent number: 5573937
    Abstract: A novel serum-free culture medium is provided which contains inorganic iron compound as a growth factor for the culture of animal cells. Culture products are easy to purify from the culture broth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Snow Brand Milk Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shinmoto, Shun-ichi Dousako
  • Patent number: 5573799
    Abstract: The color of cured comminuted meat is stabilized by curing comminuted meat with a curing medium containing an edible iron salt encapsulated in an edible thermoresistant and oxygen-permeable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Dominique Villot, Christer Zander
  • Patent number: 5573795
    Abstract: In the method for treatment of potato fruit water the potato fruit water is subjected to a heat treatment to at least 125.degree. C. for at least 3 minutes, whereafter the heat treated potato fruit water is cooled to a temperature, at which enzymes are relatively stable, then enzymatically treated with a proteinase, and finally concentrated to microbial stability. Hereby a method for treatment of potato fruit water, which will enable a commercially sound utilization of potato fruit water, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventor: Hans S. Olsen
  • Patent number: 5573804
    Abstract: Dry uncooked folded, intertwined long pasta is steamed to obtain a surface-gelatinised pasta which then is contacted with water to obtain a wet pasta, and the wet pasta is steamed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Jau Y. Hsu
  • Patent number: 5573794
    Abstract: A process for purifying glucose polymers which consists in treating a low-calorie soluble glucose polymer: polyglucose, polydextrose or pyrodextrin, with a glucose oxidase and an anion exchanger in hydroxyl form. It enables largely colourless products having little or no bitterness, high viscosities and little hygroscopicity to be obtained. The products obtained may be used as sugar substitutes or fat substitutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Roquette Freres
    Inventor: Pierrick Duflot
  • Patent number: 5571542
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method of making an animal feed having a stable suspension of psyllium. The method includes the step of mixing an effective amount of a psyllium composition, an animal feed composition, and water to form an animal feed solution. The psyllium composition remains in suspension for greater than 5 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Land O'Lakes, Inc.
    Inventors: Bill L. Miller, Robert DeGregorio