Patents by Inventor James C. Craig, Jr.

James C. Craig, Jr. 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).

  • Automated excision of undesirable material and production of starting material for restructured meat
    Patent number: 5256102
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to various aspects of automated excision of undesirable material (and optionally excision of bone) from meat, and automated production of starting material for restructured meat, including: (a) an apparatus and method generally drawn to, optical detection of the location of undesirable material in meat, communication of information regarding the location of the undesirable material to a control means, and excision of the undesirable material from the meat using a high pressure water jet controlled by the control means; (b) a bone location sensor and method of bone location sensing, each employing a plurality of needles, and; (c) a multiple blade slicer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Wolfgang K. Heiland, Richard P. Konstance, James C. Craig, Jr.
  • Automated excision of undesirable material and production of starting material for restructured meat
    Patent number: 5215496
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to various aspects of automated excision of undesirable material (and optionally excision of bone) from meat, and automated production of starting material for restructured meat, including: (a) an apparatus and method generally drawn to, optical detection of the location of undesirable material in meat, communication of information regarding the location of the undesirable material to a control means, and excision of the undesirable material from the meat using a high pressure water jet controlled by the control means; (b) a bone location sensor and method of bone location sensing, each employing a plurality of needles, and; (c) a multiple blade slicer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Wolfgang K. Heiland, Richard P. Konstance, James C. Craig, Jr.
  • Automated excision of undesirable material and production of starting material for restructured meat
    Patent number: 4970757
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to various aspects of automated excision of undesirable material (and optionally excision of bone) from meat, and automated production of starting material for restructured meat, including: (a) an apparatus and method generally drawn to, optical detection of the location of undesirable material in meat, communication of information regarding the location of the undesirable material to a control means, and excision of the undesirable material from the meat using a high pressure water jet controlled by the control means; (b) a bone location sensor and method of bone location sensing, each employing a plurality of needles, and; (c) a multiple blade slicer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Wolfgang K. Heiland, Richard P. Konstance, James C. Craig, Jr.
  • Continuous fractionation of tallow and production of a cocoa butter-like plastic fat
    Patent number: 4127597
    Abstract: Edible tallow is continuously processed through a crystallizing system to produce three fractions, one of which has physical and thermal properties like those of cocoa butter. Nominal residence time of the crystallizing solution in the system at steady state crystallizing temperature is less than ten minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: James C. Craig, Jr., Michael F. Kozempel, Stanley Elias
  • Continuous process for preparation of isopropenyl stearate
    Patent number: 4091005
    Abstract: A continuous process for the preparation of isopropenyl stearate in which a comelt of stearic acid and zinc stearate is pumped through a reaction zone simultaneously with stabilized propyne. Total reaction time is about 10 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: James C. Craig, Jr., Michael F. Kozempel