Composition and method of stabilized sensitive ingredient
OwnerMonika Barbara Horgan, Julie D. Grefer +2inventors
InventorsMonika Barbara Horgan, Julie D. Grefer, Dean Larry DuVal, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process of forming a coated sphere comprising the steps: (a) combining an alkali metal alginate with water; (b) preparing a mixture of said alkali metal alginate with a sensitive ingredient; (c) pumping said mixture to a nozzle; (d) cutting said mixture with a fluid stream; (e) forming a sphere; (f) dropping said sphere into an coating matrix; (g) providing a first protective coating around said sphere; and (h) forming a coated sphere.
Claims42
A process of forming an coated sphere comprising the steps:
- (a) combining an alkali metal alginate with water;
- (b) preparing a mixture of said alkali metal alginate with a sensitive ingredient;
- (c) pumping said mixture to a nozzle;
- (d) cutting said mixture with a fluid stream;
- (e) forming a sphere;
- (f) dropping said sphere into an coating matrix;
- (g) providing a first protective coating around said sphere;
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- (h) forming a coated sphere.
A coated sphere prepared by a process comprising the steps:
- (a) combining an alkali metal alginate with water;
- (b) preparing a mixture of said alkali metal alginate with a sensitive ingredient;
- (c) pumping said mixture to a nozzle;
- (d) cutting said mixture with a fluid stream;
- (e) forming a sphere;
- (f) dropping said sphere into a coating matrix;
- (g) providing a first protective coating around said sphere;
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- (h) forming a coated sphere.
A process of forming an coated sphere comprising the steps:
- (a) preparing a first mixture of a hydrophobic material with a sensitive ingredient;
- (b) forming a second protective coating with said sensitive ingredient located within said second protective coating;
- (c) combining an alkali metal alginate with water;
- (d) preparing a second mixture by combining said alkali metal alginate with said first mixture;
- (e) pumping said second mixture to a nozzle;
- (f) cutting said second mixture with a fluid stream;
- (g) forming a sphere;
- (h) dropping said sphere into a coating matrix;
- (i) providing a first protective coating around said sphere;
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- (j) forming a coated sphere.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.