Walter R Hopkins

US Patent:

6511679, Jan 28, 2003

Filed:

Aug 6, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/923095

Inventors:

Ronald DAmelia - Hicksville NY
Joseph Bell - Bethlehem PA
Walter Hopkins - Bridgewater NJ
Saul Scheinbach - Bronx NY
Jack Homcy - Paterson NJ
Martin Cole - Cherrybroon, AU
Robert J. Huzinec - Hummelstown PA
Judith K. Cooley - Hummelstown PA
Thomas J. Carroll - Oak Ridge NJ

Assignee:

Hershey Chocolate and Confectionary Corporation - Wheat Ridge CO

International Classification:

A61K 920

US Classification:

424464, 424 48, 424465, 426 3, 426660

Abstract:

A comestible product which includes inulin, a second component and a divalent zinc or copper. When the comestible product is a tablet, a pressed tablet, a lozenge, a hard candy or a chewy candy, the second component is a formentable carbohydrate which may, optionally, include a polyol. When the comestible product is a chewing gum the second component is a polyol, a formentable carbohydrate or mixtures thereof. The comestible product is useful in controlling breath malodor.

US Patent:

62807692, Aug 28, 2001

Filed:

Sep 13, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/395322

Inventors:

Ronald D'Amelia - Hicksville NY
Joseph Bell - Bethlehem PA
Walter Hopkins - Bridgewater NJ
Saul Scheinbach - Bronx NY
Jack Homcy - Paterson NJ
Martin Cole - Cherrybroon, AU

Assignee:

Nabisco, Inc. - Parsippany NJ

International Classification:

A61K 920
A61F 1300
A23G 330
A23G 300

US Classification:

424464

Abstract:

A comestible product which includes inulin, a polyol and a divalent zinc or copper compound which effectively controls breath malodor.

US Patent:

42711975, Jun 2, 1981

Filed:

Jun 21, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/050573

Inventors:

Walter Hopkins - Greenwich CT
Dominick R. Friello - Danbury CT
Subraman R. Cherukuri - Danbury CT
Raymond L. Roy - Danbury CT
Donald A. M. Mackay - Pleasantville NY

International Classification:

A23G 330

US Classification:

426 3

Abstract:

A chewing gum is provided which has improved softness and flexibility retention, and prolonged shelf life and contains as a plasticizer and sweetener a combination of a hydrogenated starch hydrolysate and sorbitol, and optionally, mannitol, glycerin, and/or gum arabic. The above chewing gum has been found to have excellent extrudability properties and may be used in making sugarless bubble gums, standard sugarless gums as well as center-filled gums.

US Patent:

6030605, Feb 29, 2000

Filed:

Jan 8, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/227704

Inventors:

Jack Homcy - Paterson NJ
Richard W. Deptula - Budd Lake NJ
Daniel Worthy - Succasunna NJ
Dorothy A. Panhorst - Morristown NJ
Joseph W. Bell - Bethleham PA
Walter Hopkins - Bridgewater NJ

Assignee:

Nabisco, Inc. - Parsippany NJ

International Classification:

A61K 920
A61K 968
A61K 31315

US Classification:

424 48

Abstract:

The present invention is directed towards the use of chewing gums, tablets and lozenges containing a breath freshening composition which comprises a physiologically acceptable zinc compound, an oil, and a non-ionic surfactant, to reduce or eliminate H. sub. 2 S and CH. sub. 3 SH in the oral cavity.