Patents by Inventor Philip Igor Cathenaut

Philip Igor Cathenaut 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).

  • Publication number: 20040219269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of preparing frozen confectionery articles methods for preparing a molded ice confectionery article by preparing a frozen ice confectionery composition including at least about 50 weight percent water in a solidifying environment and applying a pressure thereto to facilitate transport of the composition, continuously transporting or feeding the frozen ice confectionery composition at a sufficient temperature and pressure to transport it from the solidifying environment into a rotative distributor, delivering the pressurized frozen ice confectionery composition from the rotative distributor in substantially equal amounts to a plurality of paths, providing an amount of frozen ice confectionery composition sufficient to fill a mold on each path using a slidable nozzle, and discharging the sufficient amount of the frozen confectionery composition under a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and under frozen conditions from the slidable nozzle into the mold to provide
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Philip Igor Cathenaut, Bruno Delande
  • Patent number: 6758056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for preparing frozen ice confectionery articles including a freezer having a freezer pump that cools and transports the frozen confectionery material, a rotative distributor that receives it under pressure and distributes it into flexible pipes, and a slidable filler that includes a motor having a pre-programmable motion pattern to provide a desired pattern of deposition into a plurality of molds while sliding the filler toward and away from the molds, a plurality of nozzle pipes to deposit the material, and a metering device, wherein each mold receives frozen ice confection material from a corresponding nozzle pipe that discharges the same under a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure into the mold. Also included are methods of preparing frozen confectionery articles as well as frozen confectionery articles having the smoother texture of extruded products and at least about 50 weight percent water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Philip Igor Cathenaut, Bruno Delande
  • Patent number: 6543248
    Abstract: The device for moulding frozen confectionery articles comprises a metering hopper connected to a volumetric metering device comprising a metering chamber and a metering element dispensing a predetermined volume of ice cream into passing containers by means of a metering nozzle. As the hopper is pressurized, the metering chamber is filled without the formation of air pockets in the aspiration phase, which makes it possible to manufacture moulded articles of hard ice cream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Philip Igor Cathenaut, Bruno Delande
  • Patent number: 6534106
    Abstract: Molded ice confectionery articles are prepared by delivering a hard ice confectionery composition to a metering device chamber under a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure, keeping the composition in the device chamber under a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and metering the composition from the composition from the device chamber under a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure into a mold member positioned in an environment for freezing the composition metered into the mold member for obtaining a molded frozen article. So operating allows the composition delivered to the device chamber to have a percentage of frozen water to total water of at least 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Philip Igor Cathenaut, Bruno Delande
  • Publication number: 20020018833
    Abstract: The device for moulding frozen confectionery articles comprises a metering hopper connected to a volumetric metering device comprising a metering chamber and a metering element dispensing a predetermined volume of ice cream into passing containers by means of a metering nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: PHILIP IGOR CATHENAUT, BRUNO DELANDE
  • Publication number: 20010009097
    Abstract: The device for moulding frozen confectionery articles comprises a metering hopper connected to a volumetric metering device comprising a metering chamber and a metering element dispensing a predetermined volume of ice cream into passing containers by means of a metering nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Publication date: July 26, 2001
    Inventors: Philip Igor Cathenaut, Bruno Delande
  • Patent number: 6216472
    Abstract: Iced confectionery articles are prepared with two-part mold members transported within a heat-insulated compartment and in which a cryogenic gas is applied to the mold members for freezing product metered into the mold members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Philip Igor Cathenaut, Bruno Delande, Nicolas Marianovic
  • Patent number: 6006535
    Abstract: Apparatus integrated for metering liquid products, particularly viscous products, into molds to prepare molded article products and for suctioning liquid product from the molds to remove liquid from the molded article products and to recycle suctioned liquid product includes a hopper for containing liquid product for supply to a liquid product metering component which meters the liquid product into molds, and the apparatus further includes components including a pipette device for suctioning liquid product from molds and recycling suctioned liquid product to the hopper. Further components of the apparatus are provided so that a headspace is maintained in the hopper, and components including a vacuum pump are connected to the hopper at positions for providing a vacuum pressure in the headspace and for suctioning liquid product via the pipette device from molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Philip Igor Cathenaut
  • Patent number: 5783239
    Abstract: Articles of frozen confectionery which effervesce upon consumption contain frozen granitas and effervescent reagents. In one embodiment, first and second frozen granitas which contain differing effervescent reagents, where the reagents, in aqueous solution, react to produce carbon dioxide, are prepared and then admixed. In another embodiment, frozen granitas are admixed with a dry mix of effervescent reagents where the reagents, in aqueous soltuion, react to produce carbon dioxide. In either embodiment, the admixture is metered into a mold and tamped to obtain an article which also may include a shell or coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Ginette Callens, Philip Igor Cathenaut