Patents by Inventor Gerald J. Webb

Gerald J. Webb 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).

  • Method for producing a restructured food product
    Patent number: 4497844
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a restructured food product from small forms thereof, by comminuting such small forms to provide a fluent paste, injecting the paste under high pressure into mold cavities where the paste is rapidly heated while it is confined within the mold cavity and maintained at an elevated pressure, whereby a restructured food product is formed which has generally the same characteristics and qualities of the original food product and which retains the organoleptic properties of the original products that are frequently lost in conventional food processing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: Fryday Corporation
    Inventors: Jaxon O. Hice, Gerald J. Webb
  • Apparatus for producing a restructured food product
    Patent number: 4303008
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a restructured food product from small forms thereof, by comminuting such small forms to provide a fluent paste, injecting the paste under high pressure into mold cavities where the paste is rapidly heated while it is confined within the mold cavity and maintained at an elevated pressure, whereby a restructured food product is formed which has generally the same characteristics and qualities of the original food product and which retains the organoleptic properties of the original products that are frequently lost in conventional food processing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: Fryday Corporation
    Inventors: Jaxon O. Hice, Gerald J. Webb