Patents by Inventor Thomas Wilhelm Hauser

Thomas Wilhelm Hauser 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 manufacturing a pasta product
    Patent number: 6551645
    Abstract: A process for preparing a pasta product by extruding dry or semi-dry ground cereal. The dry or semi-dry ground cereal has a water content of less than about 20 percent by weight of the ground cereal. A pasta product prepared by the process is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm Hauser, Robert Gerald Odermatt
  • Quick cooking pasta
    Publication number: 20020192339
    Abstract: The invention relates to long, thin, tubular and non-tubular quick cooking pastas, such as lasagna noodles, having a wall thickness of between about 0.60 and 1.6 mm and teeth on at least the inner surface of the tubular pasta and on one or both surfaces of the non-tubular pasta. The teeth may be longitudinal and parallel and preferably extend along the length of the pasta. The teeth have a height of between about 0.3 and 1.6 mm and a height to wall thickness ratio of between about 0.35 and 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm Hauser, Lorenzo Panattoni
  • Quick cooking pasta
    Patent number: 5935628
    Abstract: Long, thin and tubular quick cooking pasta having, in transverse section, a wall thickness of between 0.60 and 1.1 mm and teeth on the inner surface of the tube, which are longitudinal and parallel, having a height of between 0.3 and 1.6 mm and having a height to wall thickness ratio of between 0.4 and 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm Hauser, Lorenzo Panattoni
  • Twisted quick cooking pasta
    Patent number: 5728418
    Abstract: Twisted quick cooking pasta having, in transverse section, the shape of a helix having at least one blade attached to an axis, the axis being hollow, the wall thickness of the axis and of the blade or blades being between 0.3 and 1.1 mm, and the degree of twisting being such that it has a density of between 0.2 and 0.7 g/cm.sup.3, the volume being defined as the cylindrical space occupied by the pasta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm Hauser, Lorenzo Panattoni
  • Manufacture of pasta
    Patent number: 5667833
    Abstract: Process and equipment for manufacturing process pasta, in which a mixture of cereal flour or semolina and water having a water content of 25-40% is prepared, the mixture is kneaded and it is extruded by pressing it through an extrusion die with the aid of a gear pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Daniele Juengling, Thomas Wilhelm Hauser, Jurg Lechthaler, Luca Rusconi, Armando Dos Santos Pousa, Philipp Paul Meyer