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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth V Stribling, St. Charles, IL (US);
Assignee:
Devro-Teepak, Inc., Westchester, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23J / ; A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426 92 ; 426140 ; 426657 ;
Abstract
A collagen food wrapping comprising collagen extruded into a film. The collagen contains a smoke component which is encapsulated with an encapsulating material which will release the smoke component during curing or cooking and prior to consumption thereof. The invention further includes a collagen slurry containing an encapsulated liquid smoke component and a method for manufacturing a wrapped food product by extruding the slurry onto a surface of the food product to form such a film.