Patents by Inventor Richard Tomlins

Richard Tomlins 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).

  • Manufacture of ice cream
    Publication number: 20060105083
    Abstract: Particles of edible fat are precrystallised and are blended with an aqueous ice cream precursor phase in the presence of at least one emulsifier to form a dispersion. The precrystallised particles of edible fat each contain a multiplicity of individual crystals. The resulting dispersion is gasified and frozen so as to form an ice cream. The precrystallisation is preferably performed cryogenically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Brian Brooker, Richard Tomlin
  • Storage of perishable foodstuffs
    Patent number: 5729983
    Abstract: A container (10) for the storage of perishable foodstuffs is chilled by means of a liquefied gas comprising a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen which when totally vaporised has an oxygen concentration of between 15 and 22%, the remaining concentration being substantially of nitrogen. Such an atmosphere is breathable, and hence avoids the problems associated with non breathable chilling atmospheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: The BOC Group plc
    Inventors: Michael Ernest Garrett, Richard Tomlins, John Robert Coates, Michael John Heywood, Trevor Dane Hudson, Mark Joseph Kirschner