Assignee: Mars Limited

Location: London, GB2
No. of patents: 19

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Number	Title	Issue Date
4738378	Beverage dispensing apparatus A beverage dispensing apparatus for obtaining a beverage from a normally-sealed beverage dispensing package carrying a locating projection for cooperation with an aqueous medium injector. The package is typically a sachet having, as the locating projectio...	04/19/1988
4597506	Beverage dispensing machine A beverage dispensing machine provided with the ability to alter machine characteristics and to diagnose machine faults without additional fault indicating displays through use of beverage select buttons normally used to select a variety of beverage selec...	07/01/1986
4483459	Dispensing machine A dispensing machine particularly for dispensing bottles or cans. The machine has a storage area formed by a plurality of parallel vertically spaced inclined shelves and at the lower end of each shelf is a pick-up station. A carrier mounted on a carriage ...	11/20/1984
4478868	Frozen food product and process for preparing A frozen food product which is readily penetratable by thawing water and capable of rapid rehydration comprising a frozen food or mixture of foods having a moisture content which has been adjusted to below that which the food or mixture normally has when ...	10/23/1984
4436222	Apparatus for dispensing containers An apparatus for dispensing containers, in particular disposable cups, from a stack. The apparatus has two jaw assemblies, each having a catch member and a lever member pivotable about horizontal axes between a first rest position in which the stack of co...	03/13/1984
4427704	Food product thickened or gelled with carrageenan and glucomannan What are disclosed are edible materials containing a thickened or gelled phase comprising a mixture or a reaction product of at least one carrageenan and at least one glucomannan, wherein the gelled phase may be either a thermo-irreversible gel or a therm...	01/24/1984
4357362	Method of reducing fishy odor of packaged fish product A process for reducing a fishy smell in a packaged food product containing a fishy ingredient wherein a non-toxic reducing agent in a fishy odor reducing amount is mixed with other ingredients including fish material, to produce a food product, the produc...	11/02/1982
4332832	Animal food and method A rehydratable dry animal food is prepared by preparing a mix of comminuted, heat-treated meaty materials, fat and pregelatinized starch carbohydrate binder, forming the mix into pieces and drying the pieces to form permeable solid pieces which rehydrate ...	06/01/1982
4276311	Food product and process A shelf stable food product, which can be used for domestic animals comprises solid protein pieces in an aqueous gel and contains 6 to 20% protein, 3 to 12% fat and 65 to 95% moisture and is stabilized by antimycotic and a pH of 4.5 or below achieved with...	06/30/1981
4231476	Plastics containers A nestable container in which identical containers are held together in a stack by holding means. The holding means comprise axially extending ribs on the outside of the container which engage a cylindrical surface on the inside of the container to hold t...	11/04/1980
4180592	Food Protein Product Blood, red blood derivatives or blood-containing materials such as liver are decolorized for use in food or animal food products by oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide or calcium or sodium peroxide. Excess peroxide can be removed and a desirable color achi...	12/25/1979
4173377	Chassis mounting for a machine A machine includes a housing with a door or panel which is removable to provide an opening for access to the interior of the machine. The chassis which is normally horizontal carries two rear rollers at its sides near the rear of the chassis. The rear rol...	11/06/1979
4168328	Preserved food product and process The invention relates to the long term stabilization of proteinaceous food products both for human and for animal consumption, having a moisture content exceeding 50% and preserved against microbiological spoilage by a pH value of 4.5 or below. The long t...	09/18/1979
4168322	Protein product A protein food product is described, together with a process for making it. Whey protein derived from milk is adjusted to a pH of 6 to 9 and coagulated by heat, thereby giving a firm, non-brittle material which is useful as a protein food in its own right...	09/18/1979
4143172	Food binding agent The invention relates to food products having a gelled or thickened aqueous phase, a pH value of 2.5 up to 5.0 and in the case of milk products up to the neutral range about 7.5. Applicants have found unexpected benefit in using crude pectinaceous materia...	03/06/1979
4143171	Gelatinized animal food product The invention relates to food products and provides novel foods for animals, especially pets. In particular the invention relates to coherent elastic semi-moist food products which are stabilized against bacterial growth by the inclusion of humectants at ...	03/06/1979
4111303	Plastics containers A nestable container of resilient plastics material comprises integral bottom and side walls, the side walls diverging generally from the bottom to the top. The container has means for holding the containers together in a stack, comprising projections whi...	09/05/1978
3982003	Gelling and thickening agents Food products comprising solid foodstuffs and more especially meat, meat by-products or other proteinaceous materials are contained in an aqueous phase of near neutral pH value thickened or gelled by pectic substances having a degree of esterification (me...	09/21/1976
3973051	Pectate gelled food products and method Food products comprising solid foodstuffs and more especially meat, meat by-products or other proteinaceous materials are contained in an aqueous phase of near neutral pH value thickened or gelled by pectic substances having a degree of esterification (me...	08/03/1976

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Assignee: Mars Limited