Patents by Inventor Robert Menzi

Robert Menzi 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).

  • Process for the manufacture of a foodstuff having a fibrous structure similar to that of meat
    Patent number: 4277513
    Abstract: A process for the manufacturing of a meat-analog foodstuff using an aqueous protein paste as the starting material. In this process, the aqueous paste which is prepared by grinding meat, poultry or fish offals is cooled until it partly solidifies as a plastic mass whereafter it is subjected to mechanical forces which cause the protein fibrils of the mass to reorient themselves in a preferred direction thus imparting to the mass a texture resembling that of muscular fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Willy Rufer, Robert Menzi
  • Process for preparing a food mousse
    Patent number: 4244982
    Abstract: A mousse food product capable of withstanding sterilization or pasteurization temperatures and procedures is produced by comixing a food such as a fruit or vegetable puree with an aerated albumen protein substance such as egg white at a temperature of greater than about 60 degrees C., whereby the egg white coagulates and sets to an aerated low density structure capable of undergoing sterilization or pasteurization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.
    Inventors: Robert Menzi, Georges Dove