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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7631371 | Survival kit and commode A survival kit for use in disaster areas where there is a loss of sanitation facilities. The kit is a watertight container that includes one or more survival kit items including food and water and in addition includes a packet containing a chemical toilet compositio... | 12/15/2009 |
| 6788286 | Controller for graphical display A controller for a graphical display. The controller is preferably integral to a computing device that is operable while being held in one hand. The user views the display through a magnifying lens while controlling the display and controllable elements on the displ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6779484 | Milking system A milking system including apparatus and a method for facilitating the milking of a large number of animals in a milking parlor. Milking stalls in the parlor are arranged to provide a one way-path of travel through the parlor with a controlled entry and exit to faci... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6749910 | Bag for bone-in meat packing A patch bag for, packaging bone-in meat cuts having a thin-walled heat shrinkable monolayer patch film adhered to a thin-walled heat shrinkable multilayer bag film wherein the adherence of one to the other is solely due to the surface energy of the films, the patch ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6637480 | Variable volume height adjustable buffer for transferring items from an elevated supply stream to a lower container and method A variable volume buffer is employed to conduct a multitude of articles from an elevated supply stream into a container at a lower elevation while maintaining a drop distance for the articles that is shorter than the distance from the source to the bottom... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6416062 | Kit for converting a bicycle to a snow bike A kit for converting a conventional bicycle to a self-propelled snow bike. The kit includes a ski, an elongated member for mounting the ski to the front fork of a bicycle and a bias means for urging the ski to maintain a proper orientation as the ski pitc... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6279737 | Food casing package and method of preparing Disclosed is a package containing a plurality of cut lengths of fibrous casing which are moisturized to substantially soaked levels of moisture and are retained in an evacuated plastic bag wherein the moisture level of the casing is derived from free wate... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6264874 | Method of controlling the diameter of a clear extruded tube A method and apparatus for controlling the diameter of a clear extruded molten tube wherein the extruded tube contains a volume of a clear liquid and the level of the liquid is indicative of the tube diameter so the level rises as the tube diameter decrea... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6200510 | Method for the contact printing of cellulose food casings A method of applying an indicia to the surface of a cellulose casing by non contact printing wherein the indicium is applied in-line with the casing manufacture at a location between the wet end and the dry end of the casing manufacturing process wherein ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6132779 | Method for removing cellulosic casings from sausages The removal of a cellulosic casing from about a sausage, stuffed and processed in the casing, is accomplished by contacting the casing, either before or after stuffing, with a food grade enzyme, e.g.a. cellulase or cellulase enzyme complex, to metabolize ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6096258 | Method and apparatus for forming a cellulose article including solvent recovery means A method and apparatus is disclosed for forming a cellulose film suitable for direct food contact by precipitation from a solution of cellulose water and a tertiary amine oxide cellulose solvent. After precipitation of a cellulose gel from the solution, t... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6042853 | Method for removing cellulosic casings from sausages The removal of a cellulosic casing from about a sausage stuffed and processed in the casing is accomplished by contacting the sausage with a cellulase or cellulase enzyme complex to metabolize the cellulosic casing on the sausage thereby producing a subst... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6004599 | Bag for packaging bone-in cuts of meat Disclosed is a bag arrangement and packaging method for packaging bone-in cuts of meat using two bags to provide a double wall of film surrounding the cut of meat for bone puncture resistance. Both bags are bottom sealed bags formed of a heat shrink film,... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5962053 | Edible film and method Described is an edible, water insoluble film which is a blend of polysaccharide and protein and, in particular, a ternary blend of konjac flour as a major constituent, agar and gelatin. Also, described is a method of forming the film including a deacetyla... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5942167 | Method of making a cellulose food casing including solvent recovery Disclosed is a method of extruding a solution of cellulose and an amine oxide cellulose solvent as a tube about a sizing mandrel which diametrically stretches the extruded tube. An aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) solution is introduced into the interior of t... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5942354 | Reduced curl battery separator and method A curl resistant battery separator of a noncellulosic nonwoven substrate extrusion coated on at least one surface with a cellulose film and process for making such separator by contacting a nonwoven noncellulosic textile substrate with a cellulose or cell... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5919534 | Perforated food casings and method A vented food casing having a plurality of die cut vent openings which are uniform and free-draining so as to provide the casing with a vent rate for air and liquids such as meat juices which is substantially constant around the periphery of the casing. T... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5766540 | Cellulose food casing manufacturing method The tubular extrusion of a thermoplastic nonderivatized cellulose solution about a mandrel and through a long air gap in excess of 304 mm is facilitated by use of a mandrel which is extensible from the extrusion die. On extrusion start-up, the mandrel ext... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5759478 | Mandrel structure for use in manufacture of cellulose food casing The tubular extrusion of a thermoplastic nonderivatized cellulose solution about a mandrel and through a long air gap in excess of 304 mm is facilitated by use of a mandrel which is extensible from the extrusion die. On extrusion start-up, the mandrel ext... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5747125 | Fibrous composite cellulosic film and method A crosslinked cellulose composite film including a regenerated cellulose matrix containing a uniform dispersion of hemp fibers and a poly(ethylene oxide) plasticizer. A method for forming the film includes mixing a slurry of the hemp, poly(ethylene oxide)... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5744251 | Cellulosic composition and article The present invention relates to compounded fibrous dope compositions of amine oxide cellulose solutions having a uniformly dispersed second fibrous material, methods of producing the compositions, and shaped articles such as fibers, paper, films, and foo... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5702783 | Food casing of nonderivatized cellulose A cellulose food casing comprising a nonderivatized cellulose film precipitated in tubular form from an extruded thermoplastic solution of cellulose, an amine oxide cellulose solvent and water.... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5695800 | Method of preparing a food product encased in a glucomannan film Disclosed is a food product encased in a water insoluble film of glucomannan and a method for its manufacture. In the process an aqueous solution of glucomannan is cast onto the food product surface and then is deacetylated and coagulated in sire by conta... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5658524 | Cellulose article manufacturing method In a method for forming a cellulose tube suitable for use as a food casing or as cellophane film, in which a solution of nonderivatized cellulose, tertiary amine N-oxide and water is extruded through an air gap of at least five inches, and into a water ba... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5658525 | Cellulose food casing manufacturing method In a method for forming a cellulose tube suitable for use as a food casing, in which a solution of nonderivatized cellulose, tertiary amine N-oxide and water is extruded through a die gap and the extruded tube is downwardly drawn through an air gap while ... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5603884 | Reinforced cellulosic film Disclosed is a method of preparing an extruded cellulosic film which contains a uniform dispersion of hemp fibers by first adding the fibers to an amine oxide cellulose solvent to form a slurry, mixing the slurry with a molten aqueous solution of cellulos... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5597587 | Apparatus for the manufacture of cellulose food casing An apparatus to manufacture a cellulose food casing including a nonderivatized cellulose film precipitated in tubular form from an extruded thermoplastic solution of cellulose and an amine oxide cellulose solvent.... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5593747 | Puncture resistant heat shrinkable film containing narrow molecular weight ethylene alpha olefin A biaxially stretched film with very high heat shrink and puncture resistance properties, formed of an ethylene alpha olefin copolymer having a density between about 0.88-0.905 g/m3, a low melt index not exceeding about 1.5 g/min, a Mw/Mn not e... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5451364 | Cellulose food casing manufacturing method In a method for forming a cellulose tube suitable for use as a food casing, in which a solution of nonderivatized cellulose, tertiary amine N-oxide and water is extruded through a die gap and the extruded tube downwardly flowed through an air length while... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5407611 | Process of corona treating a thermoplastic tubular film A meat product package including an enclosing film having an EVA-containing inside surface and an in situ aqueous medium-cooked meat product in adhering relation to the film inside surface as the meat contacting and adhering surface. Starch particles are ... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5393293 | Method and apparatus for forming a shrinkable bag having an integral handle Bag making apparatus and method for forming a handle opening in a thermoplastic food packaging shrink bag includes both cold cutting and hot cut cutting operations to form a handle which, on heat shrinking the bag, is strong and has an enhanced appearance... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5391108 | Method and apparatus for packaging of shirred food casings and resulting article The bundling together of shirred food casing sticks is accomplished by loosely supporting the sticks in a desired stack configuration, drawing a stretch film from below the stack, folding the film over the top of the stack and taping the film to itself, a... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5382470 | EVOH oxygen barrier stretched multilayer film A biaxially stretched oriented heat shrinkable film for food packaging comprising an EVOH-nylon 6,66 core layer, second and third intermediate adhesive layers, a self heat sealable fourth outer layer and an abuse-resistant fifth outer layer.... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5381643 | Package of shirred food casing and method The invention is a package including a bundle of shirred casing sticks disposed and held together by a container which completely encloses the bundle. The container is formed insitu about the bundle from a heat shrink film which stiffens on heat shrinking... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5382190 | Package of shirred food casings A package or "caddie" of fifty (50) shirred tubular sticks of food casing is formed by stacking the sticks in seven rows one on another the lowermost row containing five side-by-side stack, each of the next four rows containing one stick more than the row... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5376394 | Bone-in food packaging article and use field of the invention A method for shrink packaging bone-in food masses such as meat cuts is disclosed, A patch bag comprising a thin-walled heat shrinkable thermoplastic film bag and a thick-walled non-heat shrinkable thermoplastic film patch having its inner surface bonded t... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5356007 | Package of shirred food casing and method A package of shirred food casing sticks Wherein the sticks are bundled together by a wrap disposed in tension transversely about the bundle and the opposite ends of the wrap are overlapped and releasably connected. The releasable connection attaches the o... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5354193 | Apparatus for making a food containing package with integral handle A food product package includes a bulky food product hermetically sealed in a bag of heat shrunk film. The package has an integral self-supporting handle which is formed from plies of the film and which extends out from an end of the package in a conventi... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5332094 | Heat shrinkable handle bag article A heat shrinkable bag having a slit cut through two plies of a skirt portion so that the skirt forms a handle upon heat shrinking. The slit is cold cut through both plies of the skirt for most of the slit length except the opposite ends of the slit are bu... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5328705 | Cooked food product package A meat product package including an enclosing film having an EVA-containing inside surface and an in situ aqueous medium-cooked meat product in adhering relation to the film inside surface as the meat contacting and adhering surface. Starch particles are ... | 07/12/1994 |
