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Patent No. 6099319

Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool

Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.

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Assignee: Townsend Engineering Company


Location: Des Moines, IA
No. of patents: 15

NumberTitleIssue Date
8070566Skinning blade clamp with fat relief grooves
A meat skinning device having a clamp and a shoe that holds a blade therebetween, the clamp having at least one groove that extends from one edge of the clamp to the other. ...
12/06/2011
7037437Dual filter system for filtering of injector fluids
A filtering system used on a meat injection machine that injects pickling into meat products. The filter consists of a tank and a first and second rotary filter. The first rotary filter uses a wedge wire wound cylinder and augers having flutes that rotate to catch a...
05/02/2006
7033264Method and means for filling natural casing sausages
A method of filling a natural hollow elongated casing with meat emulsion involves placing a natural casing on an elongated meat emulsion stuffing tube having a meat emulsion discharge end, closing an extended end of the natural casing over the discharge end of the s...
04/25/2006
7001515Dual filter system for filtering of injector fluids
A filtering system used on a meat injection machine that injects pickling into meat products. The filter consists of a tank and a first and second rotary filter. The first rotary filter uses a wedge wire wound cylinder and augers having flutes that rotate to catch a...
02/21/2006
6981912Method and means for filling natural casing sausages
A method for filling a natural hollow elongated casing with meat emulsion that involves placing a natural casing on an elongated meat emulsion stuffing tube and longitudinally pumping meat emulsion through the stuffing tube for expansive discharge into the natural c...
01/03/2006
6955830Method for injecting fluid into meat products
A method for injecting fluid into meat products comprises taking a plurality of hollow fluid injection needles having sharpened discharge ends, and connecting the needles to a source of pressurized liquid; penetrating the sharpened ends of the needles into the produ...
10/18/2005
6939573Method and apparatus for evacuating pockets of injected fluid in meat products
A method and apparatus for evacuating pockets of injected fluid in meat products involves the structure and use of a machine which has a longitudinal movable conveyor surface on the machine; a fluid injection station on the machine for injecting fluid into a meat pr...
09/06/2005
6856852Method and means for controlling the operation of a machine based upon the wearing apparel by the machine operator
A method and apparatus that uses safety apparel that has an identification element so that a sensor on a machine may detect the presence of the identification element. Upon detecting the presence of the identification element, the sensors electronically activate a s...
02/15/2005
6855046Method and means for filling natural casing sausages
A method of filling a natural hollow elongated casing with meat emulsion involves placing a natural casing on an elongated meat emulsion stuffing tube having a meat emulsion discharge end, closing an extended end of the natural casing over the discharge end of the s...
02/15/2005
6846234Method and means for advancing a sausage casing using fluid power
A stuffing tube for a meat encasing machine that has a hollow stuffing tube. The hollow stuffing tube also has an inner chamber that is fluidly linked to the exterior of the hollow tube by a series of openings located in the wall of the stuffing tube. The openings a...
01/25/2005
6843713Method and means for encasing sausage
A method of advancing a sausage casing mounted on a stuffing tube into a twisting mechanism includes placing a hollow natural sausage casing on the outside surface of a stuffing tube and engaging the casing with a roller. The roller then forces the casing to slide t...
01/18/2005
6780452Method and means for curving sausage links
A method of creating curved sausage links involves extruding an elongated sausage strand having linear protein fibers therein out of an elongated hollow meat emulsion extrusion tube. The flow of meat emulsion through the tube is partially restricted by a restrictor ...
08/24/2004
6719621Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion
A method of stuffing natural casings with emulsion involves slidably mounting a collar element on the stuffing tube of the machine adjacent an end of the stuffing tube opposite to the discharge end thereof. The collar is slidably advanced towards the discharge end o...
04/13/2004
6290590Method and apparatus for precrimping a sausage strand
A method and apparatus for cutting sausages squeezes the meat inside the casing by a crimping wheel to move the meat emulsion away from the linking point to provide sufficient casing to close the ends of the proposed links and to prevent bursting of the c...
09/18/2001
3931665Stripper means for meat skinning machines
A stripper means for meat skinning machines is disclosed wherein the machine includes a driven toothed roll which is rotatably mounted on a frame means adjacent one end of a feed table. A pressure shoe means extends around a portion of the driven roll and...
01/13/1976
 
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