Patents by Inventor Michael Seelgen

Michael Seelgen 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: 10717573
    Abstract: A shirr-stable, tubular food casing having a glued, permanently elastic longitudinal seam based on a flat fibrous textile material coated with acrylic, collagen and/or a protein derived therefrom is provided. The seam is generated using a reactive hotmelt glue. The glued seam is resistant to boiling for a long time and also exhibits sufficient stability thereafter. Exemplary textile materials include a consolidated nonwoven or spunbonded nonwoven, a woven fabric, loop-formingly knitted fabric, laid fabric, loop-drawingly knitted fabric. To form the casing, the textile material is coated in the flat state. The coated textile material is cut into strips according to the diameter of the casing to be produced and glued using a reactive hotmelt glue, such as a PUR hotmelt glue, to form the tube. The food casing is preferably used as artificial sausage casing or for wrapping cheese or fish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Kalle GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Seelgen, Holger Schlange
  • Patent number: 9532577
    Abstract: A flexible tubular food casing having a flat support material is provided which, on at least one side, has a continuous coating based on a hotmelt polymer, with the coating preferably situated on the outside. The continuous coating has a weight per unit area of 3 to 200 g/m2, preferably 15 to 50 g/m2. The hotmelt polymers have an MVR value in the range of about 25 to 500 cm3 per 10 min, measured at 190° C. with a load of 2.16 kg. The flexible tubular food casing is suitable as a synthetic sausage casing for raw sausage, scalded-emulsion sausage or cooked-meat sausage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Kalle GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Foegler, Michael Seelgen, Ulrich Delius
  • Publication number: 20150181899
    Abstract: A shirr-stable, tubular food casing having a glued, permanently elastic longitudinal seam based on a flat fibrous textile material coated with acrylic, collagen and/or a protein derived therefrom is provided. The seam is generated using a reactive hotmelt glue. The glued seam is resistant to boiling for a long time and also exhibits sufficient stability thereafter. Exemplary textile materials include a consolidated nonwoven or spunbonded nonwoven, a woven fabric, loop-formingly knitted fabric, laid fabric, loop-drawingly knitted fabric. To form the casing, the textile material is coated in the flat state. The coated textile material is cut into strips according to the diameter of the casing to be produced and glued using a reactive hotmelt glue, such as a PUR hotmelt glue, to form the tube. The food casing is preferably used as artificial sausage casing or for wrapping cheese or fish.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Michael SEELGEN, Holger SCHLANGE
  • Patent number: 8318274
    Abstract: The invention relates to a food casing from a two-dimensional fiber structure, which is coated on one or both sides with acrylic resin. The acrylic resin is combined with at least one other natural and/or synthetic polymer. The acrylic resin in the coating may be admixed with the other polymer. The latter can also form a layer of it's own. On the inside of the casing (i.e. on the side facing the food), this coating prevents gelling out, while at the outside it has a mainly permeability-increasing effect. The casing is particularly used as artificial sausage casing, especially for cooked-smoked sausages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kalle GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Hammer, Herbert Gord, Jens Foegler, Michael Seelgen
  • Publication number: 20110236539
    Abstract: A flexible tubular food casing having a flat support material is provided which, on at least one side, has a continuous coating based on a hotmelt polymer, with the coating preferably situated on the outside. The continuous coating has a weight per unit area of 3 to 200 g/m2, preferably 15 to 50 g/m2. The hotmelt polymers have an MVR value in the range of about 25 to 500 cm3 per 10 min, measured at 190° C. with a load of 2.16 kg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Jens FOEGLER, Michael Seelgen, Ulrich Delius
  • Patent number: 7854976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a double-viscosed fibrous cellulose sausage casing having a pigmented outer cellulose hydrate layer and an impregnated internal cellulose hydrate layer. The impregnation of the internal cellulose hydrate layer includes a collagen hydrolysate and the outer cellulose hydrate layer includes at least one white pigment, preferably having titanium dioxide pigments. The invention further relates to a method for producing the fibrous cellulose sausage casing and also to its use as artificial sausage casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Kalle GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Hammer, Herbert Gord, Jens Foegler, Michael Seelgen
  • Publication number: 20100015299
    Abstract: The invention relates to a food casing with textile backing material which has been coated with a layer of regenerated or precipitated cellulose. This casing combines the properties of a textile skin with those of a cellulose fiber skin. Besides the surface texture for which textile skins are known and prized, it also has the transparency and the barrier properties, i.e. water-vapor permeability, oxygen permeability and smoke-constituent permeability, of a cellulose fiber skin. At the same time the casing is impervious to fat. It is used preferably as an artificial sausage casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Ralf Borst, Jens Foegler, Herbert Gord, Michael Seelgen, Peter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20090029012
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tubular food casing with a textile backing material which is coated on the inside with a layer of regenerated or precipitated cellulose. This casing combines the properties of a textile skin with those of a cellulose fiber skin. Aside from the surface texture for which textile skins are known and prized, it features the water-vapor permeability, oxygen permeability and smoke-component permeability of a cellulose fiber skin. At the same time the casing is impervious to fats. It is used preferably as an artificial sausage casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Kalle GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Foegler, Herbert Gord, Michael Seelgen, Peter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20080280021
    Abstract: The invention relates to a food casing from a two-dimensional fiber structure, which is coated on one or both sides with acrylic resin. The acrylic resin is combined with at least one other natural and/or synthetic polymer. The acrylic resin in the coating may be admixed with the other polymer. The latter can also form a layer of it's own. On the inside of the casing (i.e. on the side facing the food), this coating prevents gelling out, while at the outside it has a mainly permeability-increasing effect. The casing is particularly used as artificial sausage casing, especially for cooked-smoked sausages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Hammer, Herbert Gord, Jens Foegler, Michael Seelgen
  • Publication number: 20080274237
    Abstract: The invention relates to a double-viscosed fibrous cellulose sausage casing having a pigmented outer cellulose hydrate layer and an impregnated internal cellulose hydrate layer. The impregnation of the internal cellulose hydrate layer includes a collagen hydrolysate and the outer cellulose hydrate layer includes at least one white pigment, preferably having titanium dioxide pigments. The invention further relates to a method for producing the fibrous cellulose sausage casing and also to its use as artificial sausage casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Hammer, Herbert Gord, Jens Foegler, Michael Seelgen
  • Publication number: 20080233246
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tubular cellulose-based food casing, the internal and/or external face of which is provided with an impregnation or coating made of blood albumin and/or a mixture of collagen fibers and collagen hydrolysate that improves cling of the casing to the food or renders the casing virtually resistant against cellulytic enzymes. The invention also relates to a method for producing such impregnated food casing and the use thereof as an artificial sausage casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Hammer, Herbert Gord, Jens Foegler, Michael Seelgen, Gert Bueker
  • Publication number: 20080069985
    Abstract: A description is given of a tubular food casing having a glued, permanently elastic longitudinal seam based on a flat fibrous material coated with acrylic, collagen and/or a protein derived therefrom. The seam is generated using a reactive hotmelt glue. The glued seam is resistant to boiling for a long time and also exhibits sufficient stability thereafter. The insert is preferably a textile material, a concolidated nonwoven or spunbonded nonwoven, a woven fabric, loop-forming knitted fabric, laid fabric, loop-drawingly knitted fabric or a fiber paper. It is coated in the flat state. The coated longitudinal strip is cut into strips according to the diameter of the casing to be produced and glued using a PUR hotmelt glue to form the tube. The food casing is preferably used as artificial sausage casing or for wrapping cheese or fish.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Michael SEELGEN, Holger Schlange
  • Publication number: 20080057235
    Abstract: A food casing is described with or without flat reinforcement insert and a smoke-permeable costing, preferably of protein, cellulose or acrylic. The insert is preferably a consolidated nonwoven or spunbonded nonwoven, a woven fabric, loop-formingly knitted fabric, laid fabric or loop-drawingly knitted fabric. The flat strip is glued to form a tube using a smoke-permeable gluing medium, preferably blood, plasma, protein, or other proteins. The food casing is preferably used as artificial sausage casing or cheese casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Jens FOEGLER, Herbert Gord, Michael Seelgen, Gert Bueker, Marion Bueker
  • Publication number: 20070166489
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tubular food casing comprising a reinforcement which is coated on one or both sides. On at least one side the coating comprises at least one film-forming protein, in particular gelatin and/or collagen. Preferably, the reinforcement is a non-woven or spun-woven fabric, a tissue, a fabric, a layered or knitted fabric, which can be permeated by the coating containing protein. The food casing is preferably used as a synthetic sausage casing or cheese casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Jens Foegler, Herbert Gord, Michael Seelgen