Patents by Inventor Rodney D. Bee

Rodney D. Bee 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).

  • Frozen confections
    Patent number: 5472726
    Abstract: Stable gas cells having d,32 average particle size below 20 .mu.m are used in ice confections to provide creaminess, whiteness and flavor enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Good Humor Corporation
    Inventors: Rodney D. Bee, David Needham, Keith Smallwood
  • Manufacture of chemicals
    Patent number: 5404727
    Abstract: Producing edible gas hydrate by combining an aqueous liquid and a hydrate forming gas in a condensed state at a pressure above the minimum hydrate forming pressure but at a temperature above the maximum hydrate formation temperature, thereafter contacting the liquid with a surface having a temperature below said maximum temperature and moving the liquid with respect to said surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Good Humor Corporation
    Inventors: Terence P. Baker, Rodney D. Bee
  • Emulsions
    Patent number: 5258184
    Abstract: The invention provides a water/oil/water duplex emulsion in which the external continuous phase is gelled. This gelling is obtained by having an osmotic pressure component, e.g. an electrolyte, in the internal aqueous phase which draws water from the external phase through the oil phase. The structure is firm but contains a considerable volume of available aqueous phase. The structure is of value in e.g. foods and cosmetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.
    Inventors: Rodney D. Bee, Ian D. Evans, Martin J. Izzard
  • Frozen product and method of making it
    Patent number: 5055315
    Abstract: Frozen product comprising N.sub.2 O hydrate clathrate and method of preparing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Rodney D. Bee
  • Method of preparing a chemical compound
    Patent number: 5044164
    Abstract: A method of preparing a clathrate of a gas-hydrate-forming material and water by preparing a dispersion of liquid water in a continuous fluid phase comprising the gas-hydrate-forming material and controlling the temperature and the pressure such that a clathrate is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Van den Bergh Foods Co., division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Rodney D. Bee
  • Emulsions
    Patent number: 4985250
    Abstract: The invention provides a water/oil/water duplex emulsion in which the external continuous phase is gelled. This gelling is obtained by having an osmotic pressure component, e.g. an electrolyte, in the internal aqueous phase which draws water from the external phase through the oil phase. The structure is firm but contains a considerable volume of available aqueous phase. The structure is of value in e.g. foods and cosmetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.
    Inventors: Rodney D. Bee, Ian D. Evans, Martin J. Izzard
  • Sublimation method
    Patent number: 4930319
    Abstract: A gaseous mixture comprising an edible gas-hydrate-forming material and gaseous water is positively conveyed to a spot where temperature and pressure conditions are arranged in conformity with the phase diagram water/clathrate/gas-hydrate-forming material suitable for forming gas-hydrate-clathrate of said components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodney D. Bee, Anthony M. Palmer
  • Method for producing an ice confection product and ice confection product
    Patent number: 4738862
    Abstract: An effervescent ice confection product is obtained by exposing CO.sub.2 - water clathrate-containing particles to such pressure, temperature and CO.sub.2 and water partial pressure conditions that a protective layer will be formed on the particles, mixing said particles with a liquid phase containing ice confection ingredients and usually solid ice and having a temperature such that frozen water will not melt therein and thereafter decreasing the temperature of the obtained mixture to a usual storage temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.
    Inventor: Rodney D. Bee