Locus Y Chuang, 78Flushing, NY

5968580, Oct 19, 1999

Nov 25, 1997

8/977959

Locus Y. Chuang - New City NY
Rita W. Brander - New Rochelle NY
Randall R. Jackson - Bronx NY

Kraft Foods Inc. - Northfield IL

A21D 1000
A21D 1300

426548

As aspartame-sweetened, acidic beverage mix is formulated wherein at least 20% of the aspartame is in bulk (i. e. , needle-shaped crystalline particles) form and least 35% of the aspartame is coated onto acid particles. The beverage mix is well suited for powdered, sugar-free, ice tea mixes, particularly fruit-flavored mixes.

4449906, May 22, 1984

Jun 1, 1982

6/383908

Boleslaw Sienkiewicz - Pearl River NY
Franklin Kramer - Briarcliff Manor NY
Imrich Klein - Highland Park NJ
C. G. Peter Oldershaw - Halifax, CA
Locus Y. Chuang - Plainsboro NJ

General Foods Corporation - White Plains NY

B29F 304

4251311

An extrusion nozzle arrangement for the production of a product such as a comestible, including a multiple nozzle arrangement through which there can be fabricated a multi-layered slab of a meat analogue product. A bacon-like appearance is achieved in that each extrusion nozzle includes a narrow, elongate bottom outlet orifice arranged to extend transversely above a continually moving horizontal conveyor belt. An insert strip is arranged within the nozzle above the orifice and coextensive with the length thereof, which includes projections extending across the path of flow of the solution extruded through the orifice, with such projections being positioned in a predetermined manner along the insert strip as to cause either restrictions or directional changes in the flow of the solution egressing from the nozzle orifice. An arrangement of a plurality of extrusion nozzles spaced in parallel relationship along the path of movement of the conveyor belt and extending transversely across the conveyor belt, sequentially extrudes layers formed from different solutions constituting components of the meat analogue product in superposition upon the layer extruded by the preceding nozzle to thereby form a multi-layered slab. By selecting the configuration of the flow restricting or redirecting pattern of the insert strip of each subsequent nozzle to compensate for the variations in the layer configuration produced by the insert strip of the preceding nozzle, a predetermined random pattern can be established between each of the extruded superimposed layers.

6159522, Dec 12, 2000

Sep 2, 1999

9/388849

Locus Yaw-Jen Chuang - New York NY
Jane L. MacDonald - Yorktown Heights NY

Kraft Foods, Inc. - Northfield IL

A23L 262

426590

A clouding agent for dry beverage mixes is prepared by first forming a mixture of titanium dioxide and water and then subjecting the mixture to high speed shear. A spacing agent and suspending agent are then added to the mixture and the mixture is again subjected to a high speed shear, followed by spray drying. The resultant clouding agent may contain higher quantities of titanium dioxide than conventional clouding agents to thereby provide increased opacity without increased sedimentation. Further, the method of the invention provides higher throughput through the spray dryer and better yields than conventional methods of preparation.