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Patent No. 6637829

Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover

An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.

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Assignee: Tate & Lyle Public Limited Company


Location: London, GB
No. of patents: 18

NumberTitleIssue Date
8053584Purification process for lactide
The present case relates to a process for the purification of lactide from a crude lactide vapor product stream which process comprises a rectification/condensation step leading to a lactide-enriched condensate. ...
11/08/2011
8017767Sucralose composition
The present invention provides an improved form of crystalline sucralose. ...
09/13/2011
7919566Lactic acid polymers
A blend of a multiply branched lactic acid polymer of one steric configuration with a linear lactic acid polymer of the opposite steric configuration has different and more useful properties than either component alone. ...
04/05/2011
7868101Environmentally degradable polymeric compounds, their preparation and use as hot melt adhesive
The invention is directed to a method for preparing an environmentally degradable polymeric compound as well as to such a compound per se and to its use. A compound of the present invention includes a polycondensated lactic acid containing polymer, having a molecula...
01/11/2011
7795358Poly(lactic acid) stereocomplex
Poly(lactic acid) blends having a relatively high heat distortion temperature can be prepared by simple blending of PLA polymers of opposite stereoforms, followed by processing, e.g. by injection molding, under specific conditions of temperature and pressure, so as ...
09/14/2010
7544746Hyperbranched polymers
A process for preparing a hyperbranched polymer having a weight-average molar mass of at least 30,000, includes coupling a first prepolymer having at least three functional end groups with a second prepolymer having at least two functional end groups by a dehydratio...
06/09/2009
7465770Environmentally degradable polymeric compounds their preparation and use as hot melt adhesive
The invention is directed to a method for preparing an environmentally degradable polymeric compound as well as to such a compound per se and to its use. A compound of the present invention includes a polycondensated lactic acid containing polymer, having a molecula...
12/16/2008
7247326Biodegradable gum base
The invention is directed to a chewing gum, including a gum base and at least one other conventional chewing gum component, said chewing gum including as gum base at least one branched polymer mainly based on biodegradable and/or hydrolyzable ester groups. ...
07/24/2007
7049435Extractive methods for purifying sucralose
The present invention relates to novel extractive methods for purifying sucralose. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising the sucralose preparations made by the methods of the present invention. ...
05/23/2006
7018667Meltable form of sucralose
The present invention provides a meltable sucralose and acesulfame-k sweetener. This sweetener may be incorporated in a wide variety of reduced calorie food products such as cooked and hard candies, microwaveable food products, glazed food products, deep fried food ...
03/28/2006
6998480Process for improving sucralose purity and yield
This invention relates to processes for purifying sucralose by the use of an initial non-crystallization purification procedure followed by three or more sequential crystallization steps and recycle of the mother liquor remaining from each crystallization step to th...
02/14/2006
6939962Method for the synthesis of sucrose-6-esters
There is described a process for the synthesis of a sucrose-6-ester comprising: (a) reacting a mixture comprising sucrose and a polar aprotic solvent with an organotin-based acylation promoter, while adding a solvent capable of removing water by co-distillation, and...
09/06/2005
6890581Methods for buffer stabilized aqueous deacylation
The present invention relates to novel methods for stabilizing aqueous deacylation, via use of buffers in the production of sucralose. The present invention provides a process for producing sucralose from an acyl-sucralose compound whereby the acyl-sucralose compoun...
05/10/2005
6809198Sucralose composition and process for its preparation
The present invention provides an improved form of sucralose and a process for making it. ...
10/26/2004
5747091Sweetened extruded food products
A sweetened extruded food product based on a vegetable material containing a sweetener incorporated before extrusion is formulated so that the sweetener contains a significant proportion of sucralose. In particular, the sucralose provides at least 50%, pr...
05/05/1998
5136031Chlorination of sugars
A process for the chlorination of sucrose or a derivative thereof, comprises reaction of the sucrose or derivative thereof with thionyl chloride and a nitrogen base at a ratio of about 1 molar equivalent (ME) of thionyl chloride and about 1 ME of base for...
08/04/1992
5128248Selective acrylation of sugars
Sucrose or derivatives thereof such as esters are acylated at the 4'- and/or the 6-position by reaction with a donor acyl ester, e.g. a reactive ester of an alkanoic acid or benzoic acid, in the presence of lipase. Sucrose 6,4'-diesters so produced can be...
07/07/1992
4443538Stabilization of immobilized enzymes with glycerol
Enzyme-containing cells immobilized in an alginate gel are stabilized by contacting the gel with glycerol in a ratio of cellstoglycerol of 2:1 to 1:5. The enzyme-containing cells preferably convert sucrose to isomaltulose....
04/17/1984
 
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