Patents by Inventor Charles D. Schoonmaker

Charles D. Schoonmaker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Pressurized container providing for the separate storage of a plurality of materials
    Patent number: 4627986
    Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Bardsley, Thomas P. Finucane, Carl Hebel, Charles D. Schoonmaker, Philip J. Wruk
  • Pressurized container providing for the separate storage of a plurality of materials
    Patent number: 4524078
    Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Bardsley, Thomas P. Finucane, Carl Hebel, Charles D. Schoonmaker, Philip J. Wruk, Edward P. Lee, deceased
  • Pressurized container providing for the separate storage of a plurality of materials
    Patent number: 4399158
    Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Bardsley, Thomas P. Finucane, Carl Hebel, Charles D. Schoonmaker, Philip J. Wruk, Edward P. Lee, deceased
  • Apparatus for the preparation of a food product
    Patent number: 4354815
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the automatic, rapid and continuous preparation of generally friable or fragile ready-to-eat food product bacon analog strips of predetermined configuration, simulating natural, cooked bacon, wherein a slab or bulk material of the food product is sliced by a cutting device into individual strips basically having the dimensions of sliced natural bacon strips, and conducted by means of a first endless conveyor arrangement from the cutting device towards a cooking installation. Ahead of the cooking installation, a second endless conveyor mounts a series of strip-engaging members adapted to sequentially contact the sliced strips and to conduct the strips from the first endless conveyor arrangement onto and along guide rod members which extend into and through the cooking installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1982
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Bardsley, Jonas Bortkevicius, Charles D. Schoonmaker
  • Apparatus and method for the preparation of a food product
    Patent number: 4195559
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the automatic, rapid and continuous preparation of generally friable or fragile ready-to-eat food product bacon analog strips of predetermined configuration, simulating natural, cooked bacon, wherein a slab or bulk material of the food product is sliced by a cutting device into individual strips basically having the dimensions of sliced natural bacon strips, and conducted by means of a first endless conveyor arrangement from the cutting device towards a cooking installation. Ahead of the cooking installation, a second endless conveyor mounts a series of strip-engaging members adapted to sequentially contact the sliced strips and to conduct the strips from the first endless conveyor arrangement onto and along guide rod members which extend into and through the cooking installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1980
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Bardsley, Jonas Bortkevicius, Charles D. Schoonmaker