Richard D Stevenson

US Patent:

48205389, Apr 11, 1989

Filed:

May 27, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/054639

Inventors:

Marvin Schulman - Howell NJ
Harry Hannah - Toms River NJ
Richard B. Stevenson - Manalapan NJ
Gerald P. Case - Jackson NJ

Assignee:

General Foods Corporation - White Plains NY

International Classification:

A23L 1232

US Classification:

426533

Abstract:

A process of producing a charcoal broiled flavor is provided by distributing a heated fat or oil as a thin film which is exposed to a temperature of at least 600. degree. F. for a period of time less than 2 minutes to exothermically heat the fat to at least 650. degree. F. and thereafter rapidly cooling the flavor product to a temperature less than 220. degree. F. , a minor fraction of the exothermically heated oil being spent as waste vapor.

US Patent:

46091106, Sep 2, 1986

Filed:

Aug 20, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/642623

Inventors:

Marvin Schulman - Howell NJ
Richard B. Stevenson - Englishtown NJ

Assignee:

General Foods Corporation - White Plains NY

International Classification:

B07B 1305
A23N 1502

US Classification:

209663

Abstract:

An apparatus and a method for the separation of seeds from seed-containing fruit rag or the like, particularly the separation of seeds from citrus fruit rag, which essentially consists of seeds, seed sacks and membranes to which the seeds adhere, and of albedo, and wherein the efficient separation of seeds enables the economical processing utilization of the separated seeds and of the fruit rag for further commercial applications. The apparatus includes an endless conveyor belt having a substantially horizontal upper run, and which is continually driven through the intermediary of a suitable drive arrangement, such as an electric motor, has at least one roller extending diagonally across the upper run of the conveyor belt in closely spaced relationship therewith forming a narrow gap therebetween, such that seed-containing fruit rag, upon being deposited on the upstream or infeed end of the conveyor belt, will be conducted into the gap between the roller and the belt, the spacing between the belt and roller being regulated to allow the fruit rag to pass through the gap and to continue its conveyance on the belt towards the downstream or discharge end of the conveyor belt; however, with the gap being sufficiently narrow to inhibit any seeds from passing therethrough. This will cause the seeds to be stripped or separated from the seed sacks and membranes of the fruit rag to which they adhere and to slide along the longitudinal axis of the diagonally extending roller towards one side of the conveyor belt, where the separated seeds as they fall off the belt are collected in a suitable collector receptacle.