Patents by Inventor James R. A. Pollock

James R. A. Pollock 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).

  • Heater
    Patent number: 9345361
    Abstract: The present invention relates to flameless heating apparatus for food products. In particular, it relates to an improved potentially exothermic mixture/blend for such heaters and to meal packages including foods and heating apparatus. An embodiment of the invention comprises a composite material consisting of a potentially exothermic metallic alloy powder dispersed throughout a porous polyethylene matrix, which releases hydrogen in an exothermic reaction. The present invention seeks to reduce the production of such gas per unit mass, and further seeks to improve the efficiency of the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Canland UK (Hot Pack) Ltd
    Inventor: James R. A. Pollock
  • Heater
    Publication number: 20120210996
    Abstract: The present invention relates to flameless heating apparatus for food products. In particular, it relates to an improved potentially exothermic mixture/blend for such heaters and to meal packages including foods and heating apparatus. An embodiment of the invention comprises a composite material consisting of a potentially exothermic metallic alloy powder dispersed throughout a porous polyethylene matrix, which releases hydrogen in an exothermic reaction. The present invention seeks to reduce the production of such gas per unit mass, and further seeks to improve the efficiency of the reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventor: James R. A. Pollock
  • Treatment of malt to reduce stale flavor in beer
    Patent number: 4110480
    Abstract: Stale flavor formation in beer is reduced by contracting malt, prior to extracting to produce wort, with a primary or secondary mono- or polyhydric alcohol or with acetic acid or with dimethylsulfoxide to reduce the amount of precursors of 2-trans-nonenal present in the malt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: Pollock International Limited
    Inventors: James R. A. Pollock, Anthony R. Dale