Patents by Inventor Thomas P. Finucane

Thomas P. Finucane 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).

  • Pressurized container providing for the separate storage of a plurality of materials
    Patent number: 4627986
    Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Bardsley, Thomas P. Finucane, Carl Hebel, Charles D. Schoonmaker, Philip J. Wruk
  • Pressurized container providing for the separate storage of a plurality of materials
    Patent number: 4524078
    Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Bardsley, Thomas P. Finucane, Carl Hebel, Charles D. Schoonmaker, Philip J. Wruk, Edward P. Lee, deceased
  • Pressurized container providing for the separate storage of a plurality of materials
    Patent number: 4399158
    Abstract: A container providing for the storage of a pressurized fluid, such as a carbonated beverage, and having a separate compartment therein for the segregated storage of a second material, such as a flavoring for the beverage. The arrangement is responsive to a rapid drop in pressure which occurs in the container upon opening thereof to automatically cause the release of the second material from the compartment and dispensing thereof into the fluid stored in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Bardsley, Thomas P. Finucane, Carl Hebel, Charles D. Schoonmaker, Philip J. Wruk, Edward P. Lee, deceased
  • Method of making a non-foaming low-calorie sweetening composition
    Patent number: 4143170
    Abstract: Combining an effective amount of an antifoaming agent with other ingredients of a sugar substitute sweetener by co-spray drying the defoamer with a minor amount of these ingredients such that the defoamer is present in excessive amounts, and thereafter blending the co-dried material with the remaining major amount of the sugar substitute ingredients to bring the concentration back to an effective, but non-excessive amount, results in a bulked low-calorie sweetening composition which is not only readily soluble and non-foaming, but is devoid of any appreciable change in desirable physical characteristics such as density and flowability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas P. Finucane, Ernest L. Earle, Jr., Alan H. Dworetzky
  • Effervescent dipeptide sweetener tablets
    Patent number: 4009292
    Abstract: Combining a readily soluble form of L-aspartyl-L-phenyl methyl ester (APM) with an effervescent calcium carbonate system and citric acid, when compressed into tablet form, produces an effervescent APM tablet having superior solubility and stability and is devoid of characteristic lingering sweet aftertaste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas P. Finucane
  • Beverage mix and method of manufacturing same
    Patent number: 4001448
    Abstract: Monocalcium phosphate containing above 4% dicalcium phosphate by weight thereof conditions the flow of citric or malic acid-based beverage mixes so as to provide a free-flowing and controllably-packageably dry mix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1977
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas P. Finucane, Theodore J. Kovacic, John R. Wisler