Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Product is grooved or corrugated
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-14
2006-11-14
Corbin, Arthur L. (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Product is grooved or corrugated
C426S446000, C426S450000, C426S559000, C426S560000, C426S808000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07135201
ABSTRACT:
The present invention includes a method of making a puffed-food starch material snack, in particular starch material from grains, having an improved crispy texture and a more aesthetic appearance. The products may be snack chips, cakes, crackers or the like, made from food starch material. Preferably, the starch material is provided primarily in the form of individual kernels or pellets of a cereal grain, such as rice, corn, wheat, rye, oats, millet, sorghum, barley, buckwheat, or mixtures thereof. According to one method, a puffing chamber is provided having inner surfaces and a chamber volume. A bulk amount of the food starch material is placed into the puffing chamber. The bulk amount of food starch material is caused to volumetrically expand. The expanding food starch material is constrained in its expansion in at least a first dimension, while permitting unconstrained expansion of the bulk amount in at least a second dimension.
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Corbin Arthur L.
Goodwin & Procter LLP
Johnson Lars
Sloane Carolyn
The Quaker Company
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