Patents by Inventor Gerard Morin
Gerard Morin 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).
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Patent number: 8641263Abstract: A continuous method and system for processing whole muscle meat employs a mixer housing having a pair of parallel rotating shafts located therein. The parallel rotating shafts have a plurality of mixing elements thereon, such as frustoconical elements, blocking elements, or ellipsoid elements. The mixer housing has an input end to receive the meat ingredients, such as meat pieces, salt solution, water, preservatives, and other additives such as spices. The mixer housing has an output, which is separated a distance from the input, such that the output discharges the whole muscle meat product. As the ingredients including the meat move from the input to the output along the shafts, the mixing elements work the meat with the other ingredients thereby increasing ingredient incorporation including diffusion of the salt solution into the whole muscle meat pieces.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Kraft Foods Group Brands LLCInventors: Lynda Cabrales, Maurine Anne MacBride, Jeremy Alan Thuerk, Paul Gerard Morin
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Patent number: 8308342Abstract: A continuous method and system for processing whole muscle meat employs a mixer housing having a pair of parallel rotating shafts located therein. The parallel rotating shafts have a plurality of mixing elements thereon, such as frustoconical elements, blocking elements, or ellipsoid elements. The mixer housing has an input end to receive the meat ingredients, such as meat pieces, salt solution, water, preservatives, and other additives such as spices. The mixer housing has an output, which is separated a distance from the input, such that the output discharges the whole muscle meat product. As the ingredients including the meat move from the input to the output along the shafts, the mixing elements work the meat with the other ingredients thereby increasing ingredient incorporation including diffusion of the salt solution into the whole muscle meat pieces.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLCInventors: Lynda Cabrales, Maurine Anne MacBride, Jeremy Alan Thuerk, Amy Lynn Nehls, Paul Gerard Morin, Theodore Nicholas Janulis, Orestes Rivero, Adalys Rivero, legal representative
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Patent number: 8187651Abstract: A continuous method and system for processing whole muscle meat employs a mixer housing having a pair of parallel rotating shafts located therein. The parallel rotating shafts have a plurality of mixing elements thereon, such as frustoconical elements, blocking elements, or ellipsoid elements. The mixer housing has an input end to receive the meat ingredients, such as meat pieces, salt solution, water, preservatives, and other additives such as spices. The mixer housing has an output, which is separated a distance from the input, such that the output discharges the whole muscle meat product. As the ingredients including the meat move from the input to the output along the shafts, the mixing elements work the meat with the other ingredients thereby increasing ingredient incorporation including diffusion of the salt solution into the whole muscle meat pieces.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLCInventors: Lynda Cabrales, Maurine Anne MacBride, Jeremy Alan Thuerk, Paul Gerard Morin, Orestes Rivero, Adalys Rivero, legal representative
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Publication number: 20100129520Abstract: A continuous method and system for processing whole muscle meat employs a mixer housing having a pair of parallel rotating shafts located therein. The parallel rotating shafts have a plurality of mixing elements thereon, such as frustoconical elements, blocking elements, or ellipsoid elements. The mixer housing has an input end to receive the meat ingredients, such as meat pieces, salt solution, water, preservatives, and other additives such as spices. The mixer housing has an output, which is separated a distance from the input, such that the output discharges the whole muscle meat product. As the ingredients including the meat move from the input to the output along the shafts, the mixing elements work the meat with the other ingredients thereby increasing ingredient incorporation including diffusion of the salt solution into the whole muscle meat pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: KRAFT FOODS GLOBAL BRANDS LLCInventors: Lynda Cabrales, Maureen Anne MacBride, Jeremy Alan Thuerk, Paul Gerard Morin
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Publication number: 20100129506Abstract: A continuous method and system for processing whole muscle meat employs a mixer housing having a pair of parallel rotating shafts located therein. The parallel rotating shafts have a plurality of mixing elements thereon, such as frustoconical elements, blocking elements, or ellipsoid elements. The mixer housing has an input end to receive the meat ingredients, such as meat pieces, salt solution, water, preservatives, and other additives such as spices. The mixer housing has an output, which is separated a distance from the input, such that the output discharges the whole muscle meat product. As the ingredients including the meat move from the input to the output along the shafts, the mixing elements work the meat with the other ingredients thereby increasing ingredient incorporation including diffusion of the salt solution into the whole muscle meat pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: Kraft Foods Global Brand LLCInventors: Lynda Cabrales, Amy Lynn Nehls, Maureen Anne MacBride, Paul Gerard Morin, Orestes Rivero, Theodore Nicholas Janulis, Jeremy Alan Thuerk, Adalys Rivero
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Publication number: 20100129514Abstract: A continuous method and system for processing whole muscle meat employs a mixer housing having a pair of parallel rotating shafts located therein. The parallel rotating shafts have a plurality of mixing elements thereon, such as frustoconical elements, blocking elements, or ellipsoid elements. The mixer housing has an input end to receive the meat ingredients, such as meat pieces, salt solution, water, preservatives, and other additives such as spices. The mixer housing has an output, which is separated a distance from the input, such that the output discharges the whole muscle meat product. As the ingredients including the meat move from the input to the output along the shafts, the mixing elements work the meat with the other ingredients thereby increasing ingredient incorporation including diffusion of the salt solution into the whole muscle meat pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLCInventors: Lynda Cabrales, Maurine Anne MacBride, Jeremy Alan Thuerk, Paul Gerard Morin, Orestes Rivero, Adalys Rivero
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Patent number: 7169421Abstract: A method and system for making processed meat products employing a feed-forward analysis wherein input streams are analyzed and their flow rates are controlled relative to each other. The system incorporates mixing devices in a housing through which the input streams are forced. The mixing devices provide high shear mixing and blending, and in some cases maceration and salt infusion for rapid protein extraction.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2003Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer L. Tomey, Donald Edward Lucke, Paul Gerard Morin, Michelle L. Reeve, Daniel Brent Wilke
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Patent number: 7000571Abstract: The steam generator (1) comprises an outer casing (2) with an axis (8) that is in a vertical disposition when the heat exchanger is in service, a bundle of tubes having straight portions that are parallel to one another and to the axis (8) of the heat exchanger (1) inside the outer casing (2), at least one tube plate (4) having through holes, each receiving the end of a tube of the bundle, and at least one water chamber having a wall (6) that is circularly symmetrical about the axis (8) of the heat exchanger (1), the water chamber being fixed to the tube plate (4) at the bottom of the heat exchanger. The surface (14a) of the solid bottom (14) of the heat exchanger includes at least one central point disposed substantially on the axis of the heat exchanger (1) at a highest level relative to the set of points constituting the inside surface (14a) of the bottom (14) of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2004Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Framatome ANPInventors: Alain Doule, GĂ©rard Morin
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Publication number: 20050092264Abstract: The steam generator (1) comprises an outer casing (2) with an axis (8) that is in a vertical disposition when the heat exchanger is in service, a bundle of tubes having straight portions that are parallel to one another and to the axis (8) of the heat exchanger (1) inside the outer casing (2), at least one tube plate (4) having through holes, each receiving the end of a tube of the bundle, and at least one water chamber having a wall (6) that is circularly symmetrical about the axis (8) of the heat exchanger (1), the water chamber being fixed to the tube plate (4) at the bottom of the heat exchanger. The surface (14a) of the solid bottom (14) of the heat exchanger includes at least one central point disposed substantially on the axis of the heat exchanger (1) at a highest level relative to the set of points constituting the inside surface (14a) of the bottom (14) of the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2004Publication date: May 5, 2005Applicant: Framatome ANPInventors: Alain Doule, Gerard Morin
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Patent number: 5154107Abstract: The tandem master cylinder comprises, in a bore, a primary piston defining with a secondary piston a primary chamber, the secondary piston defining with the bottom of the bore a secondary chamber, the primary and secondary chambers having respectively primary and secondary outlet orifices, the primary and secondary chambers being respectively associated with primary and secondary expansion holes, able to be closed respectively by the primary and secondary pistons.The method for adjusting the lost motion of the secondary piston comprises the following steps:placing the pistons and springs in the boreleaving the primary piston in contact with its rest stopmoving the secondary piston until it closes the secondary expansion holedetecting the closure of the secondary expansion holemoving the secondary piston until the secondary expansion hole just reopensdetecting the reopeing of the expansion holesetting the maximum separation.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1991Date of Patent: October 13, 1992Assignee: Bendix Europe Services TechniquesInventors: Gerard Morin, Francois Gaffe
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Patent number: 4905787Abstract: A regular motorcycle, particularly of the type having a shaft driven rear wheel, is provided with a modified and simplified structure of a differential gear allowing a quick change from a single rear wheel mode to a double rear wheel mode, eliminating the need for an expensive differential gear lock mechanism and thus reducing the cost of production while at the same time simplifying the changeover from one mode to the other.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1988Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Inventor: Gerard Morin
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Patent number: 4559692Abstract: Method of crimping the locking ring of a ball joint. According to the invention, a prestress is applied to the bearing bush (17) to obtain a certain frictional torque between the latter and the spherical pivot while the locking ring (18) is placed on the bush (17); the punching tools (28) comprising a double die (30) are then actuated simultaneously in the direction of the socket (15) so as to deform the latter along two approximately circumferential and parallel zones located on both sides of the ring (18) to surround it without displacing it.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1983Date of Patent: December 24, 1985Assignee: Societe Anonyme D.B.A.Inventor: Gerard Morin
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Patent number: 4504166Abstract: According to the invention, a prestress is applied to the bearing bush (17) to obtain a certain frictional torque between the latter and the spherical pivot while the locking ring (18) is placed on the bush (17); the punching tools (28) comprising a double die (30) are then actuated simultaneously in the direction of the socket (15) so as to deform the latter along two approximately circumferential and parallel zones located on both sides of the ring (18) to surround it without displacing it.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1982Date of Patent: March 12, 1985Assignee: Societe Anonyme D.B.A.Inventor: Gerard Morin
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Patent number: 4491058Abstract: The stop key (60) for the plunger (50) of the valve means (30) of the servomotor (10) is mounted without play in a radial recess of the hub (19) of the working piston (20), the key having a flat body portion and two angularly folded lateral edges, the recess having a constant axial dimension essentially identical to the overall thickness of the key.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1983Date of Patent: January 1, 1985Assignee: Societe Anonyme DBAInventor: Gerard Morin
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Patent number: 4318627Abstract: The articulated joint consists of a spherical ball with a stem which is assembled to pivot in a housing by means of a bearing member made from plastics material having an annular flange supported by a closing washer and provided with a series of slots which subdivide it into petals arranged between the ball and the bottom of the housing. The petals are in the form of wedges and are loaded by elastic elements made of the same material as the spherical ball race and which bear on the annular flange to ensure the preloading and automatic taking up of play.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1980Date of Patent: March 9, 1982Assignee: Societe Anonyme D.B.A.Inventor: Gerard Morin
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Patent number: 4286363Abstract: The invention is a method of assembly for a ball-and-socket joint of the preloaded type with automatic taking up of play, comprising a housing, a pivot, a bearing element disposed between these later and a locking ring. After the disposing in the housing of the various components of the joint, the latter is axially loaded until a predetermined value is obtained for the tilting torque, and once this value is obtained, the ring is crimped in the housing by means of punches acting radially, without alteration of the predetermined value of the tilting torque. Application of the ball-and-socket joint assembly in particular for suspension or steering of an automobile vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 1980Date of Patent: September 1, 1981Assignee: Societe Anonyme D.B.A.Inventor: Gerard Morin
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Patent number: D332123Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1989Date of Patent: December 29, 1992Inventor: Gerard Morin