Peter M Miller

US Patent:

7900564, Mar 8, 2011

Filed:

Jan 13, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/275557

Inventors:

Jack E. Ramser - Muscatine IA, US
Peter A. Miller - Davenport IA, US
Robert J. Willis - Muscatine IA, US
John P. Dudenhoeffer - Muscatine IA, US

Assignee:

Grain Processing Corporation - Muscatine IA

International Classification:

B61D 3/00

US Classification:

105355, 222195, 414339

Abstract:

Disclosed are a method and an assembly for bulk transport. An inflatable bladder is inserted into a container and disposed proximal and above a gravity-fed aperture. The container may be, for instance, a hopper rail car. A bulk material then is introduced into the container, the bulk material being, for instance, a grain-based material such as corn gluten feed. The bladder is positioned and preferably secured laterally with respect to the aperture to impede access to the aperture by the bulk material. When the container has reached the transport destination, the bladder is deflated. If the bulk material has set up during transport, access to the aperture nonetheless will have been maintained.

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.