Patents by Inventor Walter R. Akeson

Walter R. Akeson 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).

  • Method of reducing storage losses in harvested sugar beets
    Patent number: 4206242
    Abstract: Harvested sugar beets are treated to reduce storage losses of recoverable sucrose by contacting the beets with propylene. The treatment may be effected by spraying an aqueous solution of propylene onto the beets, by dipping the beets into an aqueous solution of propylene, by contacting the beets with gaseous propylene, or by other suitable means. Propylene concentrations less than about 750 ppm, preferably in the range of about 10 to about 500 ppm, and more preferably about 20 to about 200 ppm, are effective to reduce storage loss of recoverable sucrose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1980
    Assignee: The Great Western Sugar Company
    Inventors: Arthur H. Freytag, Walter R. Akeson
  • Method for reduction of sucrose loss during storage or sugar beets due to reduction in respiration and invert sugar formation
    Patent number: 4021231
    Abstract: Respiration of sucrose to carbon dioxide and water is reduced and the formation of invert sugar is inhibited in the storage of sugar beets which have had an effective amount of ethylene introduced into the ground near the roots of the growing plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1977
    Assignee: The Great Western Sugar Company
    Inventors: Arthur H. Freytag, Walter R. Akeson