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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367880 | Method and apparatus for monitoring characteristics of a flow path having solid components flowing therethrough A method and apparatus is provided for monitoring a flow path having plurality of different solid components flowing therethrough. For example, in the harvesting of a plant material, many factors surrounding the threshing, separating or cleaning of the plant materia... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7290665 | Automated high-throughput seed sample handling system and method A method and apparatus for processing seed or seed samples includes an autonomous sorter which sorts seed by pre-programmed criteria. Optional features can include a counter to autonomously ensure the correct number of seeds to a seed package, a cleaning device, a s... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7174310 | Point of sale cosmetic station A system for cosmetics point of sale display, including a station at which cosmetics may be displayed, dispensed, packaged or applied. ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 6939215 | Method for reducing viscosity of mechanically separated meats and ground meats The present invention is directed to a method and system for reducing viscosity of mechanically separated meat in an amount effect to allow the mechanically separated meat to be transported through processing equipment at reduced pumping pressures. In accordance wit... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6780444 | Method of making cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and dermatological compositions and compositions made according to the method The invention concerns cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical and/or dermatological compositions and methods for preparing them. The composition is characterized in that it comprises a mixture called base mixture, consisting of a liquid extracted from a mixture (M) of tomat... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6753019 | Food supplement A food supplement which has beneficial effects for bowel health, and a method of preparing the food supplement are disclosed. The food supplement is derived from fiber extracts from two or more types of fruit or vegetables. The fiber extracts have a majority of solu... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6620791 | Edible compositions containing trehalose The invention provides edible compositions such as solid particulate sweeteners, boiled sweets, chocolate and chewing gum, wherein the compositions comprise at least 10% on a dry weight basis of one or more substances having an endothermic heat of solutio... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6524610 | Nutritional composition made from conventional foods for mixing onsite in a blender and treating patients with hepatic disorders A nutritional composition made from conventional food mixed on-site in a blender and treating patients with hepatic disorders. The composition includes a vitamin A enriched conventional food, a vitamin D enriched conventional food, a vitamin E enriched co... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6383542 | method and apparatus for preparing and dispensing a combination of food products in a vending machine Method and apparatus for preparing and dispensing a combination of food products in a vending machine from a selection of components prepackaged in a plurality of trays sealed with a single peel off tape. The method comprises dispensing a top component on... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6120824 | Process for the natural aseptic packaging of fruit products and dairy products for extending shelf life without refrigeration The invention encompasses a method that kills, or renders organically inactive, the bacteria and enzymes, as well as any other non-pathogenic microorganisms present in fresh squeezed citrus and non-citrus fruit juices and fruit juice blends, as well as fr... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5733592 | Method for cleaning and sorting bulk material For cleaning foodstuffs in the form of a bulk material, such as cereal grains, rice grains, soybeans, sunflower seeds, coffee beans, and the like, there is provided an optical sorting device (24, 24a, 24a') subsequent to a precleaning system (6), which en... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5658610 | Method and device in high-pressure treatment of liquid substances A method and device for high-pressure treatment of liquid substances, for example foodstuffs. The substance undergoes a cyclic process whereby a limited amount of the substance during each cycle is pressurized in a pressure intensifier (1) to a predetermi... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5614238 | Process for the natural aseptic packaging of juices for extending shelf life without refrigeration A process that kills, or renders organically inactive, one hundred percent of the bacteria and enzymes, as well as any other non-pathogenic microorganisms present in fresh squeezed citrus and non-citrus fruit juices and fruit juice blends, as well as frui... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5505950 | Method of packaging perishable food or horticultural products An improved method is described for use in packaging a wide variety of products, and in particular perishable food and horticultural products. The products are placed within a container of the type which establishes a modified atmosphere environment there... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5458899 | Method of packaging perishable food or horticultural products An improved method is described for use in packaging a wide variety of products, and in particular perishable food and horticultural products. The products are placed within a container of the type which establishes a modified atmosphere environment there... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5362509 | Method and apparatus for making a frozen mass of drinkable product ready for treatment A method of treating a frozen mass of drinkable product the frozen mass being stored in a frozen state in a container, including heating the container on all sides for a predetermined time so as to thaw an outside layer of the frozen mass, removing the fr... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5352471 | Process for drying and pulverizing food raw materials A process for dry pulverization of food raw materials, charactrized by the process steps, which comprises placing the food raw material in a closed vessel, evacuating the vessel to a vacuum and effecting therein the processing operations, which comprises cutting th... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5000976 | Method of converting the composition of peat A method of converting the composition of peat which comprises the steps of: mixing the peat with 10 to 40% by weight of particles of cereals such as corn or bran thereof on the basis of the weight of the peat; culturing the hyphas of a mycorhiza-forming, whit... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4871557 | Granola bar with supplemental dietary fiber and method The present invention is a granola bar with supplemental dietary fiber which is added to the granola bar in the form of compressed flakes, as well as the method of making such a granola bar. The method includes the steps of providing a mixture of granola ... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4675947 | Method of eliminating aging step in poultry processing This invention relates to a method for processing poultry, including the conversion of live birds to component meat parts in substantially less time and using substantially less energy, which method comprises the steps of: providing a live poultry bird; s... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4612221 | Multilayer food wrap with cling A multilayer film food wrap having outer layers of a polyolefin resin including a cling agent, and a core layer of a resin having a high melting point, resistance to heat, low permeability to oxygen, moisture and odor, and film toughness. Methods of prepa... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4367256 | Cling-wrap polyethylene film A cling wrap plastic film comprising a mixture of high pressure-low density polyethylene (HPLDPE) and low pressure-low density polyethylene (LPLDPE), in which the LPLDPE is between about 5 and about 16 weight % of the LPLDPE plus HPLDPE total weight.... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4254022 | Protein concentrate from high-protein pearl millet Procedures are described for obtaining about 80% of the high-grade protein in pearl millet grain as a concentrate. These procedures involve extraction of lipid-free whole millet flour with a combination of 70% aqueous isopropyl alcohol, aqueoussodium hydr... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4197321 | Process for brewing beer and treating spent grains In the brewing of beer, spent grain at about 90% moisture from a straining tank having no internal rotating rake is collected and pumped to a centrifuge which reduces the moisture of the spent grain to about 70% and provides spent grain liquor of about 2.... | 04/08/1980 |
| 3952113 | System for recovering and treating stockfeed from urban waste materials In handling solid urban wastes collected in plastic and/or paper bags, the bags are lacerated for exposing the waste material within them. The materials are processed to recover paper-pulp and stockfeed. In processing the material to recover stockfeed, th... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3937847 | Method of and means for preserving perishable foodstuffs A method of preserving foodstuffs by placing them in a container of given volume in which air at atmospheric pressure is present and selectively removing the oxygen from the air in the container while maintaining substantially atmospheric pressure therein... | 02/10/1976 |
