"That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"
President Rutherford B. Hayes ; Said in 1876, after Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to him at the White House
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361392 | Packaging from a polymer film for food products A polymer film is disclosed for effectively smoking and/or drying products packed therein, which are to be smoked and/or air dried, in particular, smoked cheeses, smoked, uncooked smoked, and air-and-sunshine dried sausages, meat and fish products. This single-layer... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7247359 | Meat product casing having a maximum extensible diameter A tubular casing for use with food products which includes knitted stockinette, longitudinal threads and circumferential spiral threads that are held to stockinette by stitches located along the length of the casing. Each thread comprises an elastic thread formed fr... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244171 | Device and method for producing sausages A device for producing sausages having at least two coextrusion heads for co-extruding strands of sausage meat which are encased with a casing material, a joint supply is provided for the sausage meat and/or a joint supply is provided for the casing material, each b... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244461 | Method of preparing liquid smoke The invention relates to a method of preparing a smoke extract, which method comprises the steps of i) preparing a char from wood or cellulose preferably by pyrolysis, ii) extracting one or more fractions of the char with an extraction solvent in its supercritical s... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7152673 | Contractable and expandable tubular wellbore system A tubular system arranged in a wellbore, having an outer tube extending into the wellbore and a wall with at least one section of reduced bending stiffness, each section defining a hinge allowing the outer tube to move between a collapsed mode and an expanded mode. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7134954 | Method for producing modified natural intestines The present invention is to provide a method for producing an animal natural intestine having improved texture and hardness by treatment with a solution containing a food emulsifier. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7066803 | Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion A machine for stuffing natural casings with emulsion, the machine having an emulsion stuffing tube with a first end and a discharge end for extruding emulsion into a casing on an outer surface of the stuffing tube, the stuffing tube extending through a twisting mech... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059102 | Method for producing a casing In a process for the manufacture of packs, for a product in portions, with a paste-like product that is to be packaged, especially sausages, in a foil tube (15), starting from a band-shaped flat foil (1), which has been provided unilaterally with a con... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051415 | Net rucking apparatus and method An apparatus and method for shirring netting onto a netting tube. A second tube is placed over and coaxially to the netting tube and netting is stretched over the second tube. The two tubes are caused to move in a reciprocating manner through a plurality of spring-l... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7044845 | Casing for individually packed products A tubular casing that is capable of receiving a product therein in an outstretched state, said casing comprising: a pleated accordion shaped envelope section; a front-end section on the opposite end from the pleate... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045183 | Easy-to-open tubular sealed casing The ease of opening of a tubular casing is facilitated based on a plastic film comprising three or more layers. The tubular sealed casing (1) for packaging the contents therein is based on a composite plastic film formed into a tubular form by bending the bas... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7021028 | Process for the production of portion packs in a tubular film In a process for the production of portion packs of viscous to pasty filling material such as sausage meat, grease, putty or cement and the like in a tubular film (12) which is formed prior to introduction of the filling material (10) by welding or sea... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7018136 | Method installing a duct, device for carrying out said method, and a tape-shape element for use with said method Method for installing a duct where an existing longitudinal member is present along a section over which the duct is to be installed. The longitudinal member is utilized as a guide for the duct. The tape-shaped element is closed around the longitudinal element throu... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6991836 | Food casing release coating comprising polyglyceryl esters A food casing having an internal surface coating of a dried aqueous emulsion including at least one polyglyceryl ester. The polyglyceryl ester in the coating covers the internal surface of the food casing in an amount of from about 200 to about 1200 mg per square me... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6964605 | Production method of natural intestine sausage and device therefor A method and an apparatus (1) for manufacturing natural intestine sausages includes a stuffing tube (4), an intestine pushing member (6), an intestine-pushing-member driving device (7), an intestine receiving member (9), a braking ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6919112 | Polyamide-based sausage skin which can be filled manually The invention concerns a biaxially stretched and thermoset tubular seamless single- or multi-layered foodstuff skin wherein the layer, or, a multi-layered skin wherein at least one of the layers, contains a block copolymer with “hard” aliphatic polyamide blocks ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6902783 | Edible molded bodies, especially flat and flexible tubular films The invention relates to edible molded bodies in the form of a flat or tubular film based on plastifiable biopolymers, the cleavage products or derivatives thereof and/or synthetic polymers from natural monomers, characterized in that they are produced according to ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6887543 | Thermal protection sheath and its fabrication method A heat-reflective protective sleeve includes a substrate (10) and a sheet of reflective material (20) fixed on the substrate (10). The substrate (10) is elastically deformable from a non-operating position and the sheet (20) is ple... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6845790 | Easily peelable sausage casing made of fibre-reinforced cellulose hydrate having a non-stick coating on the inside A fiber-reinforced sausage casing having a non-stick coating on its interior surface is described. In particular, the coating on the interior surface of the sausage casing includes the following four active components: a chromium-f... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6824846 | Packaging envelope Packaging envelope or packaging bag consisting of at least two plies, of which the one ply is elastic and the other ply is a gas-barrier layer. The inner ply can consist of a food-compatible material, so that foods, in particular meat, can be placed in the packaging... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6821588 | Film containing starch or starch derivatives and polyester urethanes The invention relates to a film which is produced form a thermoplastic polymer mixture containing the following: a) thermoplastic starch and/or a thermoplastic starch derivative and b) at least one polyester urethane, with the weight ratio a):b) being in the range f... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6777051 | Protective sheath for flexible tubes A protective sheath made of a woven synthetic fabric having a structure formed of high tenacity warp and weft yarns, the count of the yarns ranging from 400 to 2000 decitex and the number of the yarns ranging from 54 to 78 yarns per centimeter. The woven synthetic f... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6761944 | Moulded articles of cellulose hydrate with enzymatically modified surface The invention relates to a process for the treatment, in particular for the roughening, of the surface of hydrated cellulose shaped articles, in which at least one cellulase is allowed to act on the surface and is then inactivated permanently. The tubular films modi... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6756093 | Cellulose casing for food products The invention relates to cellulose casings for food products and more particularly to pigmented tubular cellulose casings and to a method for the manufacture thereof. In the method for the manufacture of pigmented cellulose casings perylene tetracarboxylic acid pigm... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6706776 | Syntactic foams with improved water resistance, long pot life and short demolding times This invention relates to syntactic foams comprising the reaction product of a liquid diphenylmethane diisocyanate component, with an isocyanate-reactive component, a filler having a density of less than 1 g/cm 3, and at least one organo-metallic catalyst. This inve... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6703058 | Food casing having a release preparation on the inside The present invention relates to a tubular food casing based on cellulose hydrate which is impregnated and/or coated on its inner surface with a release preparation. The release preparation comprises (a) at least one reactive hydrophobicizing component, (... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6557780 | Irrigation pipe protector A padding is placed around an underground irrigation pipe which allows the irrigation pipe to flex and bend when the irrigation pipe is struck or compressed. The padding is preferably a synthetic polymer that substantially reverts back to its original siz... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6514553 | Tubing used for encasing food products and a method for manufacturing the tubing The invention is a method of manufacturing lightweight fibrous casings constructed of abaca paper substrates suitably wet-strengthened using viscose, or viscose and resin, and subsequently viscosed a second time, and the casings made by this method. The m... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6454493 | Method for transporting and installing an expandable steel tubular A method is provided for expanding an expandable steel tubular including the steps of: flattening the unexpanded tubular; transporting the flattened unexpanded tubular to a location at or near the site where the tubular is to be installed; unflattening th... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6395356 | Food casings having modified release properties and methods of manufacture Regenerated cellulose food packaging film, including fibrous food casings which has modified cling properties for packaging sausage products. The cellulosic food casings have a fibrous reinforcement impregnated with regenerated cellulose composition which... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6386238 | Methods and apparatus for detangling coiled hoses and springs During coiled hose and spring operations, a sheath reduces entanglements within a workstation and provides unrestricted access to manufacturing and assembly line pneumatic tools and equipment. The sheath includes a first end, a second end, and a body exte... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6355318 | Heat shrinkable member A casing member for forming a connection between tubular sections. The member has heat shrinkable end portions, for connecting on respective adjacent end surfaces of the tubular sections adjacent the joint, and a middle portion for spanning between the en... | 03/12/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6194040 | Multilayered, biaxially-oriented food casing comprising two oxygen-barrier layers An at least four-layer tubular biaxially oriented food casing having an outer layer which includes a mixture of at least one aliphatic and at least one partly aromatic (co)polyamide with or without pigments, and an inner layer which includes aliphatic (co... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6183826 | Colored cellulosic casing with clear corridor A sausage casing comprising an elongated cellulosic tube having less than about 100 wt. % moisture based upon the bone dry weight of cellulose and having first and second longitudinal portions, and a colorant or opacifier which is longitudinally and conti... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6171668 | White food casing having low TiO2 loading An improved white food casing comprising regenerated cellulose containing titanium dioxide pigment in a weight ratio of less than 0.5 to regenerated cellulose in the casing and containing from about 0.3 to about 1.2 milligrams per square meter of casing o... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6110600 | Film, backseamed casings therefrom, and packaged product using same A backseamed casing has a casing film comprising a first outer layer and a second outer layer, the first outer layer containing a polyamide having a melting point of from about 250-400° F., and the second outer layer containing a polyamide having a melti... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6032701 | High moisture alkali smoke food casing A premoisturized food casing coated with alkali liquid smoke which does not cause color streaking on encased food product and does not cause smoke buildup on food stuffing equipment. Nevertheless, the premoisturized food casing of the invention still prov... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6033698 | Fiber-reinforced cellulose-hydrate-based food casing produced with a decreased amount of viscose A fiber-reinforced, tubular food casing based on regenerated cellulose, which is produced using an amount of viscose solution which is decreased by 10 to 30% in comparison with the standard casing at a spinning speed increased by at least 25%.... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5979509 | Method and apparatus for smoothening the surface of shirred food casings A method for treating a shirred food casing strand, having a diameter, a circumference, a longitudinal axis, an external surface and a hollow bore along at least a portion of said longitudinal axis, which comprises smoothing said exterior surface by rolli... | 11/09/1999 |