Abstract: A spinning apparatus for extruding a group of filaments by means of an annular spinneret. An annular collection chamber is arranged upstream of the spinneret, which is provided with a plurality of nozzle bores. The collection chamber has an upper inlet area and a lower annular outlet area, which is connected to the upper inlet area. In the inlet area of the collection chamber a filter device is disposed, upstream of which is a melt feed. The inlet area of the collection chamber is formed by a plurality of filter chambers, which are each provided with a melt inlet and a melt outlet. The filter device has a plurality of substantially cylindrical filter elements, which are each provided with a powdered filter medium. One of these filter elements is assigned to each filter chamber. This ensures a large filtration area and deep bed filtration of the polymer melt.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for flavoring an ethanolic spirit. A corrosion-resistant container with electric heating elements is used in a distillation process to form an ethanolic spirit. One or more aging enhancers are added to at least a portion of the distillate. A precipitate is allowed to form, removing at least a portion of the aging enhancers. The remaining solution has the enhanced flavor and aroma of an aged spirit.

Abstract: A whole wheat bread loaf made simply and rapidly from a dough consisting essentially of flour, salt, and active yeast and warm water. The breads of the invention contain no milk, eggs, butter, or sucrose sugars. If the yeast is of the rapid rise dry yeast type, one of the punch down steps can advantageously be omitted.

Abstract: The present invention provides a superoxide scavenger comprising a desirable material which is different from any conventional unstable superoxide dismutase and is available at a low cost, and the present invention also provides a beverage containing such a superoxide scavenger. The superoxide scavenger and beverage of the present invention comprise a composition extracted from a specific liquid. This specific liquid is prepared by: boiling a grain with a liquid to obtain a grain liquor; cooling the obtained grain liquor; adding a yeast into the cooled grain liquor; leaving the grain liquor with the yeast while supplying oxygen thereto; and sterilizing the resulting liquid by heating to obtain the specific liquid.

Abstract: Whipped cream of the present invention contains substantially no spherical fat particles having a particle diameter of 1 &mgr;m or greater, or contains 10% or more of spherical fat particles having a particle diameter of 0.1 &mgr;m or smaller, or contains 20% by volume or more of spherical fat particles having a particle diameter of 0.4 &mgr;m or smaller.

Abstract: Lactobacillus sanfranciscencis strains according to the present invention having a property for producing a non-organic acid antibacterial agent which exhibits at least mold-proofing activity. A fermented seasoning liquid of Lactobacillus according to the present invention may contain a Lactobacillus strain having a property for producing an antibacterial agent that inhibits the growth of mold. A method for producing bread according to the present invention may involve the use of a fermented seasoning liquid of a Lactobacillus strain having a property for producing an antibacterial agent which inhibits the growth of mold to make bread.

Abstract: A method for producing feed for forming into pellets, the pellets produced by the method to be used to feed carnivorous animals. The addition of the enzyme transglutaminase to a feed mass specifically intended for carnivorous fish will catalyze a reaction between the amino acids glutamine and lysine which form part of the protein chains and the raw material of the proteins of the feed, such that a covalent chemical bond is formed between them, which results in shape permanence in the formed, dried, finished pellets, such that the finished pellets do not lose their shape before time of use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a ready to bake dough product with a shaped filling. The filling is sized and configured so as to minimize or avoid exposure or spilling during processing, handling, or baking. The shape of the filling is configured such that it has a shorter distance vertically than horizontally. The shape of the filling may be substantially in the form of a rectangle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, half circle, diamond, trapezoid, oval, or similar shapes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to food products derived from cereal grains, comprising a fiber with long, insoluble fiber strands which when present in the food product strengthens and improves its textural attributes. Preferred foods that can be strengthened with the insoluble fibers include edible wafers for frozen desserts and refrigerated novelties (e.g., ice cream cones), and formulated foods which include pasta, extruded foods, baked foods, puffed foods and snack foods (e.g., crackers, cookies, cereals, taco shells and tortillas). The fiber functions to strengthen the food product regardless of its final molded, extruded or puffed shape. As described herein, the fiber can be any fiber derived from a plant or microbial source which has a high content of insoluble dietary fiber. Only a small amount of fiber is required to enhance the structural integrity of the final food product.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a pasta product having a pocket is provided with a filling which has a sauce-like consistency when in a hydrated state. According to another aspect of the invention, both the pasta body and the filling have a composition which permits them to be dehydrated to a moisture level sufficient to be packaged, shipped, and stored, as a dry good without the need for pasteurization, while permitting rehydration upon cooking to an extent that the pasta body achieves a desired supple texture and the filling achieves a sauce-like texture. The filling of the present invention is capable of dehydration to shelf-stable moisture levels while maintaining rehydratability to a sauce-like consistency and texture.

Abstract: Liquid candy is molded into a body of hard candy HC with a tubular portion 24 of a holder 22, 24 anchored therein. The tubular portion 22 extends into close proximity to an outer surface of the hardened candy HC. A cup-shaped portion 22 of the holder is snapped onto a reservoir cap 70. The holder 22, 24 is snapped into a fully engaged position. When a consumer wishes to consume the candy product, the consumer pulls up on the holder 22, 24 to move it upwardly relative to the reservoir cap into a second engaged position. A break-away portion 74 of the cap 70 breaks away to open fluid communication between the reservoir 62 and a passageway 36 through the holder 22, 24.

Abstract: Liquid candy is molded into a body of hard candy HC with a tubular portion 24,124 of a holder 22, 24,122,124 anchored therein. The tubular portion 24,124 extends into close proximity to an outer surface of the hardened candy HC. A cup-shaped portion 22,122 of the holder is snapped onto a reservoir cap 70,170. The holder 22, 24,122,124 is snapped into a fully engaged position. When a consumer wishes to consume the candy product, the consumer pulls up on the holder 22, 24,122,124 to move it upwardly relative to the reservoir cap into a second engaged position. The holder moves relative to a blocking portion 74,174 of the cap 70,170 to open fluid communication between the reservoir 62,162 and a passageway 36,136 through the holder.

Abstract: A case-ready package has a support member, a lid, and an absorbent pad capable of withstanding sudden evacuation without rupture. The absorbent pad has upper and lower webs enveloping an absorbent layer, with the upper and lower webs adhered to one another around the periphery of the pad. The lower web is a permeable web comprising fiber. The fiber is preferably hydrophobic, and preferably has a hydrophilic composition thereon. The invention also pertains to a packaging process and packaged product using the absorbent pad.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing food product packages which produces packaging having the desirable characteristics of the conventional overwrap food tray with printed film and excellent storage and display characteristics achieved with modified environment packaging. The fresh food products suitable to be packaged by the method include fresh meat, particularly ground beef, fruits, and vegetables, particularly mushrooms. The method has an advantage of using generally conventional tray wrapping apparatus and generally conventional trays and involves the use of a flexible plastic wrap material preprinted and also perforated with microperforations of predetermined size and density to be permeable to air while inhibiting any flow of liquids from the package.

Abstract: An identification method used for distinguishing the sham from the genuine in a purely natural products, comprising to treat the specimen into a testable piece and count the number of rays released by each unit weight and unit time period by liquid flashing arithmometer; the disintegration value of C14 can be calculated through testing efficiency calibration, marked by dpm/gc. This dpm/gc can tell the percentage of C14 contained in the test piece. Compare the dpm/gc value of an approved natural specimen A with that of an unknown test piece B. If A is equal to or close to B, then the test piece is made of purely natural material(s); if A is far greater than B, then B is not made of 100% natural material. This method can be used in testing the purity of natural contents of Chinese medicine, western medicine, foodstuffs, food additives, health-protection food and flavorings.

Abstract: Multicolor image, formed from at least two component images, are printed on non-planar surfaces of edible pieces by maintaining registration of the pieces from one printing station to another. The registration is maintained by firmly securing the pieces to the transporting surface by applying a pressure differential, by a combination of a pressure differential with a resilient surface, or by trapping the pieces between a retaining member and a recess portion.

Abstract: An additive delivery system for applying additives to a food product on a rollstock machine is provided. The rollstock machine has a forming film formed into at least one cavity with each cavity receiving a food product. The additive delivery system comprises a first additive delivery device secured to the rollstock machine and a second additive delivery device secured to the rollstock machine with the second additive delivery device being spaced from the first additive delivery device. At least one first nozzle is formed in the first additive delivery device for delivering at least one additive into at least one of the cavities prior to each cavity receiving a food product and at least one second nozzle is formed in the second additive delivery device for delivering at least one additive onto the food product within the cavity.

Abstract: The present invention overcomes many of the shortcomings inherent in previous methods and systems addressing the commercial production of fried plantain slices. The improved process comprises a fully automated system which includes a sprayer assembly adapted to continually spray the cutting knife mechanism on commercial-grade slicing machines with a cleansing lubricant thereby keeping the cutting surface clean and free of debris. The improved system also includes a liquid bath for coating the freshly sliced plantains prior to immersion in a hot oil frying vat. In one embodiment, the system utilizes an edible oil as both the cleansing spray lubricant and in the liquid bath. In this embodiment, the liquid bath serves as a reservoir for the cleansing lubricant sprayer assembly. In another embodiment, the system utilizes water as both the cleansing spray lubricant and in the liquid bath.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for baking a food product utilizing a confectionery mould made from silicone. The confectionery mould is obtained by mixing and reacting a crosslinkable silicone, especially methyl-vinyl siloxane (VMQ), and a peroxide as a cross-linking agent.

Abstract: An apparatus and methods for cooking meat are provided. The apparatus preferably includes a base having at least one liquid container connected to an upper surface of the base and a liquid collecting cavity formed in the upper surface of the base between outer walls of the liquid container and outer peripheries of the base. The apparatus also preferably includes at least one separate meat infusor positioned to contact the base and to overlie and substantially surround at least inner walls of the liquid container. The meat infusor preferably has an infusor body and a plurality of openings positioned in side peripheries of the infusor body so that when liquid positioned in the liquid container heats, steam from the liquid travels through the infusor body, through the openings therein, and toward meat positioned to overlie the infusor body.

Abstract: A composition including: an intense sweetener, a gum; a food additive comprising an amino acid, an acid selected from organic acids, inorganic acids and mixtures thereof, and a metal ion; and an agent that masks or blocks the taste of bitter substances is disclosed. The composition may be incorporated into a beverage (such as a carbonated soft drink and flavored water). The components in the composition other than the intense sweetener eliminate the off flavors due to the intense sweetener. The components in the composition other than the intense sweetener improve the shelf life, enhance the mouth-feel, eliminate the off flavors of the intense sweetener, and improves the time-intensity profile of a beverage or other oral use product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a ready to bake dough product with a shaped filling. The filling is sized and configured so as to minimize or avoid exposure or spilling during processing, handling, or baking. The shape of the filling is configured such that it has a shorter distance vertically than horizontally. The shape of the filling may be substantially in the form of a rectangle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, half circle, diamond, trapezoid, oval, or similar shapes.

Abstract: A chewy candy analogue that is compatible with ice confectionery products, particularly in terms of the process, storage and consumption conditions of ice confectionery products, is manufactured to provide specific properties in respect of fluid rheology, heat conduction, insulation characteristics, setting rate and plastic deformation characteristic when processed in conjunction with regular ice confection products.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dry clouding agent for dry beverage mixes prepared by drying an aqueous mixture, which on a dry weight basis, comprises

Abstract: A process including: mixing a high-fat soybean liquid with at least one demulsifier; and separating the resulting cream component from the reduced-fat liquid component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions which are useful as stabilizer and thickener systems, as well as methods of their use. The compositions are useful as, for example, cosmetic, health care (including pharmaceutical and over-the-counter compositions), food, and beverage compositions, preferably food and beverage compositions. The present invention is further directed to methods of stabilizing such compositions. The compositions comprise a pectin compound, an alginate compound, a cellulose compound such as carboxymethylcellulose.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for sautéing vegetables, wherein the method includes contacting the vegetables with a sautéing agent, followed by contact with heated air. The present invention also relates to the resultant sautéed vegetable product.

Abstract: A composition comprising partially hydrolyzed proteins for use as a hypoallergenic pet food, and a process for producing it.

Abstract: Coated powder is obtained by applying a material having a refractive index of 1.9 to 3.1 to powder having a refractive index of 1.3 to 1.8 as a core and further applying a material having a refractive index of 1.3 to 1.8 to the coated core. When this powder is used for cosmetics or paints, natural coloring can be accomplished without deteriorating lightness because a screening effect is not high.

Abstract: A method is provided for reducing the microloading effect in a CVD process for depositing a film on a substrate. This method is particularly useful in a single-wafer CVD reactor. The microloading effect is reduced by identifying a growth-rate-limiting reactant; calculating a dilution factor (the ratio of the gas flow rate of the growth-rate-limiting reactant to the total gas flow rate in the reactor); and adjusting the film growth rate and/or the dilution factor to satisfy a numerical criterion for reducing the microloading effect. The criterion is satisfied when the film growth rate is reduced, or the dilution factor is increased, so that the dilution factor is equal to or greater than a quantity which includes the film growth rate as a factor. The film growth rate and dilution factor may be adjusted independently. The gap between the showerhead and the substrate in the CVD reactor may be adjusted to satisfy the numerical criterion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel sealing composition for the manufacture of an electrophoretic or liquid crystal display, and a sealing process using the composition. The composition allows electrophoretic or liquid crystal cells to be seamlessly sealed and the sealing layer free of any defects.

Abstract: A method for depositing a conductive paste is disclosed. The method comprises aligning apertures in a stencil with conductive regions on a circuit structure, and screening conductive paste into apertures in the stencil. Conductive paste present in the stencil apertures is pushed through the stencil apertures using a pressurized fluid or an array of pin bodies.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and related apparatus to link and/or pattern self-assembled first objects to a second object. Each of the first object (e.g., a nanoparticle) can be embedded in a mobile binder (i.e., a stabilizer). The invention applies energy to the first object and stabilizer, links this first object to the second object, and provides a controlled linkage of the first object with respect to the second object. Applying this procedure to many such objects results in a larger areal arrangement of these linked objects. An appropriate solvent may be used to remove non-linked objects, yielding a patterned array. Thermal annealing can be applied to control the physical and chemical properties of the array.

Abstract: The invention relates to a new method of manufacturing colloidal silica which exhibits good dispersibility in an organic solvent, an organic resin, a paint containing an organic solvent or resin, or the like, is stable for a long period of time in a medium containing a hydrophobic organic solvent as a major component, and has a low metal ion impurity content under mild conditions.

Abstract: Furnace run length extension by fouling control utilizing a pigging-passivation process.

Abstract: Composition containing a chlorinated organotin derivative and a polyfluoroalkyl compound and/or a halo polyfluoroalkyl compound useful for CVD formation of fluorine doped tin oxide coatings.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a joining method, whereby high-purity ceramic parts can be simply joined, a high strength joint durable even under a high temperature environment, is possible, and the method is applicable also to a complex shape.

Abstract: A nickel-base superalloy article has a surface protective layer comprising nickel, from about 20 to about 35 weight percent aluminum, and from about 0.5 to about 10 weight percent rhenium. The protective layer, which is preferably an overlay coating of the beta (&bgr;) phase NiAl form, is formed by depositing nickel, aluminum, rhenium, and modifying elements onto the substrate surface. A ceramic layer may be deposited overlying the protective layer.

Abstract: A hardware assembly is provided for controlling a first portion of gas and a second portion of gas in a furnace. The first portion of the gas is introduced to a center opening region of a stack of porous structures. The second portion of the gas is introduced to an outer region of the stack of porous structures. Most of the gas flows out of the hardware assembly from either the center opening region or the outer region while some of the gas flows out through small holes from the other region. A densification method is also provided with two densification processes in which the gas flows in opposite directions in the two densification processes.

Abstract: A layer system, in particular for tools or machine components operated under insufficient lubrication or under dry operation conditions, is proposed, which system, starting from the base body (1), comprises a hard substance layer system (2), subsequently a metallic layer (3) and finally a slide layer system (4), the last mentioned preferably made of Carbide, in particular of Tungstencarbide or Chromiumcarbide and dispersed Carbon.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a sucker rod with high resistance to corrosion, to be used preferably in oil wells. Said sucker rod comprises a core of carbon steel, whether alloyed or not, whose surface is coated by a copper base alloy. Said alloy comprises a 50 to 99.9% copper rate. A process for manufacturing said sucker rod is included.

Abstract: A method of controlling drying stresses through controlled shrinkage of a ceramic coating coated onto a substrate. The method first includes applying a non-cured ceramic coating onto the substrate and permitting the coating to dry until a mechanically stable outer surface layer of the coating is formed. Once this layer is formed, a drying control is applied in a quantity sufficient to penetrate into the surface layer, with the result of such application being the inhibition of formation of a dry outer skin as continued drying is permitted to occur. Once such drying is complete, the outer surface layer is subjected to an elevated temperature for curing and for evaporating therefrom the drying control agent to thereby produce a cured-ceramic coated substrate whose coating is void of large cracks and whose durability is beneficially opportune.

Abstract: Thickness unevenness of a coating liquid layer in a width direction of a web is adjusted by moving a guide roller at the proximity of a coating rod so as to deliberately provide tension variation in the width direction of the web in purpose of forming the coating liquid layer with a desired thickness on the web by the coating rod.

Abstract: An impregnation process of a porous support, comprising the following steps:

Abstract: The invention relates to polymerizable preparations which contain: (a) 3 to 80 wt. % of an epoxy or of a mixture of epoxies of general formula (I), whereby n and m, independent of one another, represent 0, 1, 2 or 3, and n+m ranges from 2 to 6, and whereby the molar mass of the epoxy or the average molar mass of the mixture of epoxies ranges from 250 to 1000 g/mol; (b) 0 to 80 wt. % of an epoxy or of a mixture of epoxies that differ from (a), (c) 3 to 85 wt. % of fillers; (d) 0.01 to 25 wt. % of initiators, retarders and/or accelerators, and; (e) 0 to 25 wt. % of auxiliary agents, whereby the specified percentages refer to the total weight of the preparation.

Abstract: Rust-protective treating method for magnetic iron core. The magnetic iron core is first ground and then the magnetic iron core is washed by a washing device to remove the impurities attaching to the surface of the magnetic iron core. Then, the magnetic iron core is immersed in zinc phosphate solution which washes the surface of the magnetic iron core. Then, the magnetic iron core goes through rust-protective pretreatment and is several times immersed in rustproof paint as necessary. The surface of the magnetic iron core is coated by a dense layer of rustproof paint with sufficient thickness. Then the magnetic iron core is respectively immersed in acrylic and polyester to form a best rust-protection outside the rustproof paint. In the steps of immersion in rustproof paint, acrylic and polyester, a centrifuge can be used to remove and recover the excessive solution on the surface of the magnetic iron core so as to avoid waste and form a more even layer of rustproof material with suitable thickness.

Abstract: The present invention provides a silicon carbide-based, porous, lightweight, heat-resistant material which can retain the shape of a porous structural body formed of, for example, corrugated cardboard and provides a manufacturing method therefor. The silicon carbide-based, porous, lightweight material is produced by a process including the steps of infiltrating a slurry composed of a resin and powdered silicon into a porous structural body having a framework formed of paper such as corrugated cardboard, wood, a woven cloth, a non-woven cloth, a plastic, or the like; carbonizing the infiltrated porous structural body at 900 to 1,350° C. in an evacuated or an inert atmosphere; and performing reaction-bonding for the obtained structural body at 1,350° C. or more in an evacuated or an inert atmosphere. By the reaction-bonding, silicon carbide having superior molten silicon wettability and open pores caused by the reaction during which the reaction volume decreases are simultaneously formed.

Abstract: In a process for coating silicon carbide fibers with a titanium-based alloy by plasma spraying, the titanium-based alloy is sprayed onto the silicon carbide fibers by way of an electrode-free high-pressure plasma. The high-pressure plasma is generated in a microwave- or radiowave-transparent working tube with a gas inlet opening and a gas outlet opening by ignition of a process gas which has been introduced into the working tube at a pressure p≧1 bar. The plasma is maintained by absorption of microwaves or radiowaves and is passed into the working space as a plasma jet through a nozzle arranged at the gas outlet opening of the working tube.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solventless thermosetting photosensitive via-filling ink used in a hole-burying procedure in a printed circuit board (PCB) production process, and a method for filling a via using said via-filling ink. The solventless thermosetting photosensitive via-filling ink according to the present invention can be used to fill up the two ends of a via and form a rigid film by exposure to an ultraviolet light in order to protect the via-filling ink in the via from cross-linking, so that the via-filling ink will not flow out during a thermal baking process due to an insufficient viscosity of said ink. As a result, the via-filling ink thus formed has a smooth surface and a solid inside without void or hole formed therein.

Abstract: A method of coating an organic polymeric low-k dielectric layer starts by depositing a protective layer composed of silicon nitride (SiN) or silicon carbide (SiC) on a substrate. Ahydrophilic surface is produced across a top surface of the protective layer by performing a fast surface treatment that subjects the surface to an oxygen-containing plasma at a pre-selected low radio frequency power. An adhesion promoter coating layer is formed over the top surface of the protective layer. The coating layer has promoter molecules, each promoter molecule having at least one hydrophobic group and one hydrophilic group. The low-k dielectric layer is spin-on coated onto the coating layer. Formation of the hydrophilic surface alters an orientation of the adhesion promoter molecules to facilitate the hydrophilic group of each of the adhesion promoter molecules facing the hydrophilic surface while the hydrophobic group of the adhesion promoter molecules faces the low-k dielectric layer.