Key People

KYLE E. DAYLEY Engineer Kyle graduated from Ricks College in 1965 and has furthered his education through extension classes at Utah State University and Brigham Young University. He worked for Rogers Brothers Company for a number of years and was a medic in United States Army during the Viet Nam War. In 1976, Kyle became an engineer for Miles Willard Technologies, responsible for the design and scale-up of equipment and the design and commissioning of new product lines, worldwide. Kyle is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists in the Professional Engineering Section. He is an inventor or co-inventor on the following US Patents: 4,650,687 - Float frying and dockering methods for controlling the shape and preventing distortion of single- and multi-layered snacks 4,861,609 - Prevention of puffing during frying of expanded snack products 4,889,733 - Method for controlling puffing of a snack product 4,889,737 - Fried snack product having dockering holes therein 4,973,481 - Process for producing rippled snack chips and product thereof 5,100,686 - Corn rings and method of manufacture 5,192,574 - Corn rings and method of manufacture (C.I.P.) 5,306,133 - Dough sheet rotary cutting system 5,388,489 - Dough sheet rotary cutter 6,197,358 - Waterless process and system for making dehydrated potatoes 345,043 - Edible food product (design patent) Kyle and his wife spend their spare time with church activities, gardening, hiking, and enjoying their children and grandchildren.