Patents by Inventor Paul R. Fronczkowski

Paul R. Fronczkowski 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: 4657501
    Abstract: A machine for continuously depositing a sorbitol-sweetened hard candy confection which allows the manufacture of such hard candies in a continuous commercial high volume operation. The machine deposits the hard crystalline candies from an aqueous sorbitol solution having a crystalline seeding material therein, such that the sorbitol solution must be maintained in the depositing machine within a relatively narrow temperature range to prevent rapid thickening of the solution at too low temperatures and destruction of the crystalline seeding materials at too high temperatures. The machine includes a heated hopper for the aqueous sorbitol solution and a heated depositing base, through which the aqueous sorbitol solution is deposited through an array of nozzles into candy molds positioned therebeneath. The depositing base is fabricated with heating medium passageways therein, through which a heating medium is circulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Nabisco Brands
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Klacik, Robert J. Vermesh, Paul R. Fronczkowski, Sigismondo A. DeTora, Donald Mihalich
  • Patent number: 4452825
    Abstract: A clear amorphous sugar-free hard candy prepared on a continuous basis from an aqueous sorbitol solution by heating such solution to a moisture-content level of less than about 5% by weight and then cooling the resulting mass to a temperature of from about 160.degree. F. to about 200.degree. F. before providing crystal nucleation sites sufficient to obtain a hard candy set time of no more than about 30 minutes in a metal mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Nabisco Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Klacik, Walter V. Vink, Paul R. Fronczkowski
  • Patent number: 4154867
    Abstract: A sugarless candy is provided which has improved flavor and sweetness and contains one or more natural sweeteners, namely, a hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, preferably in combination with a sugar alcohol, such as sorbitol, one or more fruit flavors, together with malic acid which serves as a flavor enhancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: Life Savers, Inc.
    Inventors: Deborah Aldrich, Walter Vink, Richard W. Deptula, Donald J. Muskus, Paul R. Fronczkowski, Marc Chrusch
  • Patent number: 4127677
    Abstract: A xylitol-coated chewing gum is provided which delivers an intense instantaneous cooling effect. The xylitol coating has a pleasant smooth feel and which coating is applied via a coating syrup containing from about 55 to 70% solids of which from about 95 to about 99.5% is xylitol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Assignee: Life Savers, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul R. Fronczkowski, Dominick R. Friello