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Whitbread PLC Patents |
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Assignee: Whitbread PLC
Address: London, GB2
No. of patents: 13
Patents:
| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D374176 |
Bottle with floating insert |
October 1, 1996 |
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| D367008 |
Head forming insert, especially for use in bottles |
February 13, 1996 |
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| D364347 |
Bottle |
November 21, 1995 |
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| 7228789 |
Beverage container |
June 12, 2007 |
| A beverage container for a carbonated beverage includes a floating hollow insert (1) comprising an upper moulding (2) and a lower moulding (3) defining a chamber for containing gas, a first one-way duck-bill type valve (4) integrally formed with the upper moulding (2) at the bottom of |
| 5786186 |
DNA encoding enzymes of the glycolytic pathway for use in alcohol producing yeast |
July 28, 1998 |
| Yeast is transformed so that it is capable of expressing the enzymes phosphogluconate dehydratase and 2-keto-3-deoxygluconate 6-phosphate aldolase; whereby, in fermention, a sugar can be converted to pyruvate via the Entner-Doudoroff pathway. Recombinant DNA encodes the enzymes defined |
| 5780083 |
Carbonated beverage container |
July 14, 1998 |
| A carbonated beverage container (10, 35, 40) including a hollow insert (1, 20). The insert (1, 20) has one one-way valve (7, 29, 31, 32) and one orifice (6, 28, 33, 34), one of which is arranged to allow gas from a headspace above beverage (11) to enter the insert (1, 20), and the other |
| 5716850 |
Monitoring the colour and bitterness of beer |
February 10, 1998 |
| A method of determining one or both of the colour and bitterness of beer by illuminating the beer with light of a pre-determined wavelength, typically 400.+-.30 nm, to cause iso-.alpha.-acids in the beer to fluoresce. The fluorescence is detected over a range of wavelengths, typically 42 |
| 5705210 |
Deformable insert for a beverage container |
January 6, 1998 |
| An insert (20) for use in a container (40) such as a bottle. The insert (20) has a deformable portion, so that in its non-deformed state it is too large to pass through an opening of the container (40) such as the neck of a bottle, yet in its deformed state, the insert (20) may pass thro |
| 5705209 |
Insert for carbonated beverage container |
January 6, 1998 |
| A carbonated beverage container (10, 35, 40) including a hollow insert (1, 20) which floats in the beverage (11). the insert (1, 20) has two one-way valves (6, 7, 28, 29), one (6, 28) of which allows gas from a headspace above the beverage (11) to enter the insert (1, 20), the other (7, |
| 5620725 |
Carbonated beverage container and methods for filling same |
April 15, 1997 |
| When dispensing carbonated beverages, particularly beers and especially draught stout, it is desirable to obtain a close-knit creamy head. To achieve this a container (1) includes a separate closed hollow insert (5) containing substantially no oxidising gas and means (6) responsive to |
| 5584165 |
Method of filling and insert for a container |
December 17, 1996 |
| An insert (10, 12) for use in providing a creamy head on a carbonated beverage dispensed from a beverage container (50) comprises a restricted orifice (20) for providing communication between its inside and outside, and a pressurized gas contained inside. The restricted orifice (20) is |
| 5290574 |
Carbonated beverage container |
March 1, 1994 |
| When dispensing carbonated beverages, particularly beer and draught stout, it is desirable to obtain a close-knit creamy head. This contributes to a creamy taste and adds considerably to the customer appeal. To obtain this effect when dispensing from a can (1) it includes a lid (2) havin |
| 5203140 |
Beverage container and method of filling it |
April 20, 1993 |
| A method of packaging a beverage container includes placing an open-topped secondary chamber with an orifice into an open container before or after the container is filled with a beverage, displacing substantially all of the oxygen from the open container and the secondary chamber, and c |
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