Daniel Hubbard

US Patent:

8263163, Sep 11, 2012

Filed:

Apr 21, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/764296

Inventors:

Lin Wang - Iowa City IA, US
Pete Miller - Davenport IA, US
Tonya Armstrong - Muscatine IA, US
Michael Kramer - Muscatine IA, US
Susan Freers - Muscatine IA, US
Roger McPherson - Muscatine IA, US
Daniel E. Hubbard - West Liberty IA, US
Terry Andren - Grover MO, US
Jeff Underwood - Muscatine IA, US

Assignee:

Grain Processing Corporation - Muscatine IA

International Classification:

A23L 1/05

US Classification:

426578, 426516

Abstract:

Disclosed is a cold-water soluble starch and a process for preparing same. Generally, the process comprises providing a hydroxyalkyl starch and applying a shearing force to the starch in an extruder in the presence of moisture, the force and the moisture each being sufficient to gelatinize at least substantially all of the granules of the starch to thereby form a sheared starch. The starch is heated to its gelatinization temperature after the starch has passed partially through the barrel of the extruder, with the moisture being maintained at a level sufficiently high to allow gelatinization but sufficiency low to protect the starch from becoming too sticky to extrude. The extruded starch product thus formed may be used in connection with a number of film-forming, coating, and other applications.

US Patent:

20150024113, Jan 22, 2015

Filed:

Sep 22, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/492193

Inventors:

- Muscatine IA, US
Peter Miller - Davenport IA, US
Tonya Armstrong - Muscatine IA, US
Michael Kramer - Muscatine IA, US
Susan Freers - Muscatine IA, US
Roger McPherson - Muscatine IA, US
Daniel Hubbard - West Liberty IA, US
Terry Andren - Grover MO, US
Jeff Underwood - Muscatine IA, US

International Classification:

C08J 3/03
A23L 1/00
A23L 1/22
A61K 47/36
A61K 9/28

US Classification:

426650, 1062061

Abstract:

Disclosed is a cold-water soluble starch and a process for preparing same. Generally, the process comprises providing a hydroxyalkyl starch and applying a shearing force to the starch in an extruder in the presence of moisture, the force and the moisture each being sufficient to gelatinize at least substantially all of the granules of the starch to thereby form a sheared starch. The starch is heated to its gelatinization temperature after the starch has passed partially through the barrel of the extruder, with the moisture being maintained at a level sufficiently high to allow gelatinization but sufficiency low to protect the starch from becoming too sticky to extrude. The extruded starch product thus formed may be used in connection with a number of film-forming, coating, and other applications.