Patents by Inventor Maxine Jolly

Maxine Jolly 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).

  • Method and device for liquefying of a powdery fat based product particularly in the production of chocolate and the like
    Patent number: 7736685
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for lowering the viscosity of a fat based mixture comprising solids and fat that have been previously refined to a powdery mass characterized in that the powdery mass is submitted to elongational flow effective as such to provide breaking up of the agglomerates and intimate interactions of the solids with the fat thereby resulting in the production of a pasty mass with coating of the solids with the fat. The method enables to replace conching in a traditional conche or at least reduce conching time or increase the subsequent loading and throughput of the fat based mass in traditional conches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Nicholas Tyers Parsons, Stuart Blackburn, Maxine Jolly, Stephen Thomas Beckett, Stefan Reuss, Kate Armstrong, Fernando Gomes
  • Method and device for liquefying of a powdery fat based product particularly in the production of chocolate and the like
    Publication number: 20060117965
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for lowering the viscosity of a fat based mixture comprising solids and fat that have been previously refined to a powdery mass characterized in that the powdery mass is submitted to elongational flow effective as such to provide breaking up of the agglomerates and intimate interactions of the solids with the fat thereby resulting in the production of a pasty mass with coating of the solids with the fat. The method enables to replace conching in a traditional conche or at least reduce conching time or increase the subsequent loading and throughput of the fat based mass in traditional conches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Nicholas Parsons, Stuart Blackburn, Maxine Jolly, Stephen Beckett, Stefan Reuss, Kate Armstrong, Fernando Gomes