Patents by Inventor Hazel Steels

Hazel Steels 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).

  • Ambient stable beverage
    Patent number: 6599548
    Abstract: An ambient stable tea based beverage that contains a tea extract and a preservative system. The preservative system contains cinnamic acid, one or more essential oils and one or more pasteurization adjuncts that become fungicidal when activated by heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marian Blyth, Roy Michael Kirby, Hazel Steels, Malcolm Stratford
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Patent number: 6579556
    Abstract: A method for preparing an ambient-stable beverage that is suitable for cold filing. The method involves adding to a beverage at least one pasteurization adjunct that has no appreciable fungicidal activity at a temperature between 0 and 40 degrees C but exhibits fungicidal activity when heated to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C, and raising the temperature of the beverage to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C in order to activate the fungicidal activity of the pasteurisation adjunct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Michael Kirby, Hazel Steels, Malcolm Stratford
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Publication number: 20020034568
    Abstract: An ambient stable tea based beverage that contains a tea extract and a preservative system. The preservative system contains cinnamic acid, one or more essential oils and one or more pasteurization adjuncts that become fungicidal when activated by heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marian Blyth, Roy Michael Kirby, Hazel Steels, Malcolm Stratford
  • Ambient stable beverage
    Publication number: 20010055644
    Abstract: A method for preparing an ambient-stable beverage that is suitable for cold filing. The method involves adding to a beverage at least one pasteurization adjunct that has no appreciable fungicidal activity at a temperature between 0 and 40 degrees C but exhibits fungicidal activity when heated to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C, and raising the temperature of the beverage to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C in order to activate the fungicidal activity of the pasteurisation adjunct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Michael Kirby, Hazel Steels, Malcolm Stratford