Patents Examined by Steven Weinstein
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Patent number: 4798728Abstract: The present invention relates to a retort vessel containing fish which is excellent in quality and impact resistance strength. The vessel containing broiled fish of the present invention comprises broiled fish the meat of which has a hardness of 85 g to 1500 g and a retort vessel made of a flexible material in which said broiled fish is received, said broiled fish being vacuum-packaged so that air content becomes 25% or less and then subjected to retort sterilization processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1987Date of Patent: January 17, 1989Assignee: House Food Industrial Company LimitedInventors: Ko Sugisawa, Yasushi Matsumura, Hidefumi Okamoto, Kumiko Abe
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Patent number: 4798736Abstract: A dietetic food seasoning is claimed, characterized in that, for its production, vegetable proteins are hydrolyzed with 2 to 7.5 times the amount by weight of 15-30% by weight aqueous hydrochloric acid and/or phosphoric acid at 100.degree. C. to 120.degree. C., the hydrolyzate is optionally treated with active carbon, neutralized with 30-60% by weight aqueous potassium hydroxide solution until a pH value of 4-6.8 has been reached, the resultant mixture is optionally concentrated to a volume of 1.2 to 2.8 liters per kilogram of vegetable protein used, and filtered, after allowing to stand for at least two hours at 10.degree. C. to 30.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1987Date of Patent: January 17, 1989Assignee: Diamalt AktiengesellschaftInventor: Lothar Belohlawek
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Patent number: 4798733Abstract: A composition for use in yeast-fermented foods to modify the food and improve its softness during storage is disclosed. The composition comprises (by weight) 1 part of protein, 0.5 to 4 parts of edible fat and oil, 3.5 to 13 parts of water, 0.5 to 2 parts of at least one material selected from the group consisting of mashed potato powder, sweet potato powder and starch; and 0.3 to 4.5% of a phosphate and/or citrate based on the total weight of said protein, edible fat and oil, water and at least one material selected from the group consisting of mashed potato powder, sweet potato powder and starch.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1987Date of Patent: January 17, 1989Assignee: Miyoshi Oil & Fat Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomiatsu Kaneko, Kazuaki Yokoyama, Hisashi Tsuruoka
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Patent number: 4797291Abstract: A method for producing a comestible product is provided with a first and second layer of food material. An insert article is disposed on the first layer of food material and is positioned inwardly of at least some of the edges of the first layer of food material to define peripheral regions in the first layer of food material which project beyond the insert article. The second layer of food material is in substantial registry with the first layer of food material. In one embodiment, the food material layers are brought into contact with each other and with the insert article by moving the food material along a path to engage a portion of the food material with a cam surface that has at least an upwardly inclined portion that also extends laterally over the path of movement of another portion of the food material whereby one portion of the food material is folded over the other portion of the food material.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1985Date of Patent: January 10, 1989Assignee: William W. PierceInventors: William W. Pierce, George June, James M. Meadows, Albert G. Cheek
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Patent number: 4797295Abstract: A method of making stick-supported products, particularly ice creams, having undercut or recessed zones formed thereon, the method utilizing a mold (1) which has at least one internal raised thread (2) and one recessed thread (3) and which enables the product to be drawn out of the mold by merely exerting an axially directed pull upon the product-supporting stick (5) followed by a natural rotational movement of the stick in a direction of said threads.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1987Date of Patent: January 10, 1989Assignee: Sidam S.R.L.Inventors: Grigoli Franco, Trabacchi Franco
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Patent number: 4797300Abstract: Plastic shortening and other food compositions which comprise an edible oil and a fatty acid ester of sucrose wherein the fatty acid groups consist essentially of short chain fatty acid radicals containing from 2 to 10 carbon atoms and long chain fatty acid radicals containing from 20 to 24 carbon atoms in a molar ratio of short chain:long chain radicals of 5:3 to 3:5, the said esters having a degree of esterification of about 7 to 8. The edible oil can be a triglyceride oil or a nondigestible oil.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1987Date of Patent: January 10, 1989Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ronald J. Jandacek, James C. Letton
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Patent number: 4795648Abstract: A sandwich wrapper is formed from a substantially rectangular sheet by providing a plurality of overlapping folds which are positioned into a substantially pleated arrangement. Two substantially parallel lines of adhesive, glue, or adhesive tape are used to attach spaced apart zones of the folded areas to each other. The dimensions of the sheet with respect to an article to be wrapped, spacing between the adhesive lines, and dimensions of the fold can be calculated to provide an efficient and cost-effective food wrapper.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1987Date of Patent: January 3, 1989Inventors: Gilbert Capy, Jean-Luc Allain, Jacques Benarrouch
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Patent number: 4794008Abstract: A packaged frozen food product is provided which is housed in a package which includes a first, substantially microwave permeable portion having a first frozen food component housed therein, and a second, microwave reflective portion having a second frozen food component retained therein. The package also includes a void space between the first frozen food component and the second frozen food component. Upon microwave heating, the first frozen food component will be thawed and the second frozen food component will remain substantially frozen.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1987Date of Patent: December 27, 1988Assignee: General Foods CorporationInventors: Walter L. Schmidt, Clement R. Wyss, Edward L. Scarsella, John F. Halligan, Joan M. Adams
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Patent number: 4794005Abstract: A food package assembly of the type designed to serve the dual function of providing a package for shipment and storage of a prepared food and of microwave heating of the food in a manner producing a browning or crisping effect that is particularly adapted to the needs of foods, such as French bread pizzas and garlic bread, which cannot be crisped in a microwave oven via the use of a single planar microwave interactive crisping layer and which, due to the grease and/or vapor driven out of them cannot be heated in a microwave oven in a closely confined manner without becoming soggy. In accordance with preferred embodiments, a food product is received upon an inner tray member that coacts with an outer package body to cradle the food product so that the adjoining surface thereof will be crisped by a microwave interactive heating layer applied to the facing surface of the inner tray member.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1986Date of Patent: December 27, 1988Assignee: James River CorporationInventor: Anthony J. Swiontek
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Patent number: 4793996Abstract: In the process of preparing a soybean extract exhibiting inhibition of malignant transformation of cells which comprises defatting soybeans and extracting the inhibitor from the defatted soybeans, the step of defatting the soybeans by bringing them into contact with acetone provides an edible extract of increased effectiveness.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1986Date of Patent: December 27, 1988Assignee: Ann R. KennedyInventors: Ann R. Kennedy, Walter Troll, Jonathan Yavelow
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Patent number: 4792457Abstract: A method is disclosed for continuously manufacturing individually wrapped, single slice, firm bodied meat products formed of a viscous heat settable non-syneresing meat emulsion which contains a heat-settable starch.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1986Date of Patent: December 20, 1988Assignee: Kraft, Inc.Inventors: Miro A. Brna, Robert G. Walker, Charles Kukla
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Patent number: 4789553Abstract: Low acid heat-sensitive foodstuffs, such as low acid heat-sensitive vegetables and cereal grain products, are thermally processed in the presence of a mixture of an acid and its lactones, preferably an aldonic acid with its lactones, the acid of which makes possible a considerably reduced commercial sterilizing parameter whereby more of the flavor, color, or texture of the foodstuff is retained, and is closer to that of the freshly harvested home-cooked product, compared to the foodstuff processed at a more severe parameter when the acid is not employed. The type and level of the acid employed and its presence with its lactones results in a thermally processed foodstuff which does not have an objectionable acid taste. The preferred mixture is gluconic acid with its lactones, glucono-delta lactone and glucono-gamma lactone, provided to the foodstuff by combining it with a precursor of gluconic acid, preferably glucono-delta lactone.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1985Date of Patent: December 6, 1988Assignee: American National Can CompanyInventors: Deborah J. McIntyre, Dwight E. Reed
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Patent number: 4789556Abstract: A method for manufacturing a packaged, aseptic hard soybean curd having high protein content and fine texture increased in hardness with keeping good taste which includes the first step of warming a soybean juice, adding 1-4% by weight of a soy protein isolate having a high coagulation ability, subjecting the soybean juice to a homogenizing treatment and sterilizing the soybean juice by direct steam heating method and the second step of continuously adding to thus obtained sterilized high protein soybean juice a germ-free coagulant solution at a constant rate in a pipe line and homogeneously mixing them, filling the mixture in a container in an aseptic atmosphere, sealing the container and heating it to coagulate the mixture. Thus obtained soybean curd has a hardness of at least 130 measured by a curd tension meter.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1987Date of Patent: December 6, 1988Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Company LimitedInventors: Shigeo Okonogi, Kunisuke Kawahara, Saburo Oizumi, Kenji Mizuguchi, Osamu Koide, Hiroshi Shimada
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Patent number: 4786513Abstract: A package of sliced bacon is disclosed which package is adapted to facilitate the cooking of the sliced bacon by microwave energy. This package includes a plurality of bacon slices generally arranged in a stack with separating sheet means placed between otherwise adjacent bacon slices for maintaining separation of the bacon slices during storage and cooking. An absobent blotter means is included below the stack of bacon slices to absorbing liquids released from the bacon during cooking. The package also includes an overwrap means which surrounds the stack of bacon slices, the separating sheet means, and the absorbent means during storage and during cooking. In addition, a means for venting the overwrap is provided whereby expanding gases are allowed to exit the overwrap means during cooking.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1986Date of Patent: November 22, 1988Assignee: Conagra, Inc.Inventors: Randal J. Monforton, Burton R. Lundquist
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Patent number: 4786519Abstract: An apparatus and method of carbonating beverages is disclosed, including a container for the beverage to be carbonated and a source of carbon dioxide to be introduced into the beverage. The container is sealed, and a bleedline is provided for the headspace of the container, to maintain the pressure of the headspace at a sufficiently high value for carbonation to take place, while at the same time allowing the carbon dioxide to flow through the liquid. A source of carbon dioxide is disclosed which includes a reaction vessel and a chemical package containing a mixture of chemicals that can react in water to give carbon dioxide. The chemical package disclosed provides a time delay of at least ten seconds from the time it is immersed in water to the time the chemical reaction begins.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1986Date of Patent: November 22, 1988Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventor: Ashis S. Gupta
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Patent number: 4784865Abstract: A substantially fat and cholesterol free, low calorie, fluid, dairy coffee whitener comprising, as major ingredients, low fat milk having a butterfat content not exceeding 1.0% by weight, preferably less than about 0.4% by weight, and nonfat dry milk solids, and including an emulsifier, preferably a monodiglyceride, and a whitening agent. The nonfat dry milk solids are preferably of the specially heat modified type and are derived from a process in which condensed skim milk is subjected to non-coagulative direct steam heating prior to spray drying. The resultant coffee whitener has the appearance, taste and mouth feel of conventional high butterfat containing dairy creamers, a total solids content of 18 to 25% by weight, a protein content of 8 to 12% by weight and a calorie content of less than 10 calories per serving.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1986Date of Patent: November 15, 1988Assignee: The Pro-Mark CompaniesInventors: Donald B. Baker, Vanessa Hulett
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Patent number: 4780328Abstract: A process of preparing a frozen rolled cod tail wherein a cod tail is rolled around a spindle, then frozen partially or completely, afterwards removed from the spindle and, if necessary, frozen completely. The frozen rolled cod tails may be filled later when desired.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1986Date of Patent: October 25, 1988Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Yngve R. Akesson, Else M. Andersen, Mats Olofsson
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Patent number: 4778683Abstract: A method of forming a multi-color chocolate product, includes the steps of applying a first color chocolate into a chocolate mold having a planar upper surface and recesses formed therein which form a sharp angle at the junction of the recesses with the planar upper surface; squeegeeing the first color chocolate across the planar upper surface such that the first color chocolate fills the recesses and is scraped from the planar upper surface; permitting the first color chocolate to at least partially harden; applying a second color chocolate into the chocolate mold on the planar upper surface thereof; permitting the second color chocolate to harden to form the multi-color chocolate product; and removing the multi-color chocolate product from the chocolate mold.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1986Date of Patent: October 18, 1988Assignee: Chocolate Pix, Inc.Inventor: Robert Newsteder
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Patent number: 4777054Abstract: A package unit includes, in combination, a generally elongated shaped food item for consumption when the package is open, and a container which surrounds and seals the elongated shaped food item. The container includes a first tear line formed adjacent to one end of the container along a plane generally perpendicular to the axis of the elongated shaped food item for opening the container. A second tear line is formed along the plane generally parallel to the food item for exposing one end of the food item after the container has been open by removing a portion of the container along the first tear line. The second tear line extends at one end from the center portion of the first tear line toward the other end of the container and terminates at its other end in a central section of the container. Third and fourth tear lines each extend at opposed angles from the other end of the container and are joined together adjacent the other end of the second tear line.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1986Date of Patent: October 11, 1988Assignee: Perfect Holdings, Ltd.Inventor: Eugene L. Greenhouse
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Patent number: 4777053Abstract: Disclosed are packaged frozen food articles which are adapted to be heated by microwave. The articles include an overwrapped paperboard carton housing one or more frozen, coated food items. The carton further includes an opposed pair of spaced parallel laminated heating panels. The panels each comprise an inner heating layer mounted on a mounting board, a spacer such as a spaced pair of paperboard sheets with an intermediate corrugated piece, and an outer microwave shield. The heating layer is in direct contact with the food items and can comprise a metallized film. The microwave shield can be a foil such as aluminum foil.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1986Date of Patent: October 11, 1988Assignee: General Mills, Inc.Inventors: David W. Tobelmann, Michael L. Troedel, Robert L. Esse