Patents by Inventor Guy C. Coker

Guy C. Coker 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).

  • Apparatus and method for making bread crumbs
    Patent number: 4833959
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing homogeneous bread crumbs including a conveyor for conveying bread loaves that securely holds the bread loaves while they are sliced by a rotary involute knife slicer into slices of substantially uniform thickness, a dicer that dices the slices into homogeneous bread crumbs and a chute with a deflector and a compressed air source which conveys the bread slices from the rotary involute slicer to the dicer and aligns and spaces the slices for input to the dicer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Charles J. Vietrogoski, Guy C. Coker, Richard Obarowski
  • Method for agglomerating moisture sensitive materials
    Patent number: 4476145
    Abstract: Moisture sensitive materials are agglomerated by a process that does not disrupt the structure of these materials. A first fraction of the moisture sensitive materials are coated with a hydrophylic binding agent foam and then contacted with the remaining materials. The agglomerated mixture is then dried to a final product moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1984
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Darlene A. Hardie-Muncy, Guy C. Coker, Ronald P. Wauters
  • Process for making a coconut product
    Patent number: 4363825
    Abstract: A process for making sweetened coconut flakes in which shredded coconut is coated with an aqueous solution comprising finely ground coconut and humectants. The liquid coated coconut is then coated with sugar producing a product which is moist and fresh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1982
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Guy C. Coker