Patents by Inventor Gilles Maller

Gilles Maller 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).

  • Patent number: 10568346
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a powdered porous product from at least one starting powdery and/or viscous product, characterised in that it comprises the continuous following steps without exposing the product to open air: a) preparing the starting product in order to make it viscous; b) in a thermo-mechanical machine (10) for continuously realising transport and/or mixing functions of viscous products or dry-material rich products, lowering the viscosity of the viscous product without changing its dry-material content, by intimate mixing with a gas injected into the processing machine (10) and simultaneously initiating the porosity in the viscous product; c) continuously with the processing machine (10), statically or dynamically intensifying the intimate mixture of the viscous product with a gas in order to obtain an aerated and porous mass; and d), dividing said mass in order to obtain aerated and porous particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CLEXTRAL
    Inventors: Daniel Durand, Jean-Marie Bouvier, Gilles Maller, Scott Maxwell, Stewart Stevenson, Steven Roberts, Alain Brisset
  • Publication number: 20170143010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a powdered porous product from at least one starting powdery and/or viscous product, characterised in that it comprises the continuous following steps without exposing the product to open air: a) preparing the starting product in order to make it viscous; b) in a thermo-mechanical machine (10) for continuously realising transport and/or mixing functions of viscous products or dry-material rich products, lowering the viscosity of the viscous product without changing its dry-material content, by intimate mixing with a gas injected into the processing machine (10) and simultaneously initiating the porosity in the viscous product; c) continuously with the processing machine (10), statically or dynamically intensifying the intimate mixture of the viscous product with a gas in order to obtain an aerated and porous mass; and d), dividing said mass in order to obtain aerated and porous particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel Durand, Jean-Marie Bouvier, Gilles Maller, Scott Maxwell, Stewart Stevenson, Steven Roberts, Alain Brisset
  • Patent number: 8268378
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the continuous production of a powdered product from a product in the liquid state in the form of a solution-, suspension- or emulsion-type mixture in an aqueous medium. According to the invention, during the first step (E1) of the method, the product in the liquid state is transformed into a product in the viscous state. The invention is characterised in that it includes at least one overrun step (E2, E4) and at least one product-drying step (E3, E6) comprising at least a first step (E3) involving thermomechanical treatment with at last one thermomechanical treatment machine into which the viscous state product and a determined amount of powered product from the same family as the liquid state product are injected simultaneously. The treatment machine is configured to mix the viscous state product and the powdered product such as to produce solidified particles of the product upon contact with the ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Clextral
    Inventors: Daniel Durand, Jean-Marie Bouvier, Gilles Maller, Maxwell Scott, Stewart Robert Stevenson, Steven James Roberts
  • Patent number: 8158179
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the continuous production of an expanded edible food product obtained by cooking-extrusion and containing solid inclusions having a size larger than 0.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Clextral
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Bouvier, Daniel Durand, Gilles Maller, Anne Perenon
  • Publication number: 20100104718
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a powdered porous product from at least one starting powdery and/or viscous product, characterised in that it comprises the continuous following steps without exposing the product to open air: a) preparing the starting product in order to make it viscous; b) in a thermo-mechanical machine (10) for continuously realising transport and/or mixing functions of viscous products or dry-material rich products, lowering the viscosity of the viscous product without changing its dry-material content, by intimate mixing with a gas injected into the processing machine (10) and simultaneously initiating the porosity in the viscous product; c) continuously with the processing machine (10), statically or dynamically intensifying the intimate mixture of the viscous product with a gas in order to obtain an aerated and porous mass; and d), dividing said mass in order to obtain aerated and porous particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: CLEXTRAL
    Inventors: Daniel Durand, Jean-Marie Bouvier, Gilles Maller, Scott Maxwell, Stewart Stevenson, Steven Roberts, Alain Brisset
  • Publication number: 20100104691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the continuous production of an expanded edible food product obtained by cooking-extrusion and containing solid inclusions having a size larger than 0.5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: CLEXTRAL
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Bouvier, Daniel Durand, Gilles Maller, Anne Perenon
  • Publication number: 20080241337
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the continuous production of a powdered product from a product in the liquid state in the form of a solution-, suspension- or emulsion-type mixture in an aqueous medium. According to the invention, during the first step (E1) of the method, the product in the liquid state is transformed into a product in the viscous state. The invention is characterised in that it includes at least one overrun step (E2, E4) and at least one product-drying step (E3, E6) comprising at least a first step (E3) involving thermomechanical treatment with at last one thermomechanical treatment machine into which the viscous state product and a determined amount of powered product from the same family as the liquid state product are injected simultaneously. The treatment machine is configured to mix the viscous state product and the powdered product such as to produce solidified particles of the product upon contact with the ambient air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: CLEXTRAL
    Inventors: Daniel Durand, Jean-Marie Bouvier, Gilles Maller, Maxwell Scott, Stewart Robert Stevenson, Steven James Roberts