Patents by Inventor Kenneth C. Kappes

Kenneth C. Kappes 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: 4954356
    Abstract: A microwavable package for storing and cooking a food product such as bacon, includes an absorbent bed enclosed within a sealed plastic sleeve. During microwave cooking, the corrugated bed collects oil or grease released by the food product and maintains a portion of the food product in contact with the collected oil or grease to impart a pan-fried quality to the cooked food product. Vents in the sleeve permit the controlled escape of water vapor so that the sleeve billows away from the food product during cooking. An inert, oxygen-free atmosphere is contained within the package, and a pulrality of the microwavable packages are enclosed in a sealed outer barrier wrap prior to their removal for cooking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Milprint, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth C. Kappes
  • Patent number: 4877674
    Abstract: A single piece non-wrinkling wrapper for bars of soap is made from a lamina of sheets of a flexible plastic film and a water absorbent paper. The film and paper are superimposed and bonded together along their margins by bands of adhesive. The exposed surface of the paper sheet is coated with a cold seal cohesive along the margins in register with the adhesive bands. When wrapped around a bar of soap, the cohesive and adhesive fall in the back seal and end seal areas of the soap, thereby double wrapping the bar with the film and paper sheets and with an air space between the sheets which prevents or minimizes the wrinkling of the outer wrap. The wrappers may be made on a continuous basis from a wide web of film and paper that are bonded together along a grid-like pattern by means of bands of adhesive. The web is severed along the midpoints of the adhesive to form the individual wrappers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Milprint, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth C. Kappes
  • Patent number: 4857342
    Abstract: A microwavable package for storing and cooking a food product such as bacon, includes an absorbent bed enclosed within a sealed plastic sleeve. During microwave cooking, the corrugated bed collects oil or grease released by the food product and maintains a portion of the food product in contact with the collected oil or grease to impart a pan-fried quality to the cooked food product. Vents in the sleeve permit the controlled escape of water vapor so that the sleeve billows away from the food product during cooking. An inert, oxygen-free atmosphere is contained within the package, and a plurality of the microwavable packages are enclosed in a sealed outer barrier wrap prior to their removal for cooking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Milprint Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth C. Kappes