Patents by Inventor Robert Dechaine

Robert Dechaine 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).

  • Low-acid juice-milk beverages, juice and milk components therefor and methods of preparation
    Patent number: 4676988
    Abstract: Disclosed are juice-milk beverages exhibiting minimal curdling and/or precipitation; new juice components and milk components for such beverages; and ion exchange methods of preparing such components and beverages. The milk component is prepared by first decationizing milk by contacting with a cation exchanging resin to a pH of below 3.2 to 1.5, and then anion exchanging to a pH of 3.5 to 4.5. The juice component is decationized to a pH of 2.5 to 1.3, deanionized to a pH of 8-11.5, and then acidulated by cation exchange to a pH of 3.0 to 4.5. Blends of the juice and milk are then essentially homogenized and then optionally pasteurized or sterilized and/or carbonated to prepare the new beverages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Efstathiou, Robert Dechaine, Robert Zoss