Dispersed systems and method of manufacture
AssigneeFuisz Pharmaceutical Ltd.
InventorRichard C. Fuisz
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Abstract
Oleaginous substances such as vegetable oil, baby oil, olive oil, margarine, lanolin, cocoa butter and the like have their affinity for water altered by mixing the oleaginous substance with sugar and melt spinning the mixture in a cotton candy spinning machine or the equivalent. As so modified the product disperses autogenously in water forming a colloidal or colloidal-like dispersion. The modification enables such widely disparate procedures as incorporating shortening oil in a cake mix containing flour but no egg, producing a confection or medicated lozenge by dehydrating the dispersion and allowing the melted residue to solidify.
Claims12
A mass of spun fibers consisting essentially of one or more sugars where the sugars are capable of being spun into fibers that are readily water-soluble, and an olegginous substance that in its separate state is hydrophobic, said olegginous substance being distributed on or incorporated in the fibers of said mass such that said mass of fibers when added to water disperses therein to form a colloidal or pseudo-colloidal dispersion.
A spun fibrous hydrophilic material comprising a mass of spun fibers of a sugar capable of being spun into fibers that are readily water-soluble and a hydrophobic olegginous ingredient distributed on or incorporated in said fibrous mass.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.