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| 7866130 | Automated method for placing sliced food stacks in packages A system and method are provided that allow meat logs to be manually loaded into a slicing station and thereafter be continuously automatically processed at the slicing station, a harping station, and an insertion station for automated packaging thereof without the ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7735303 | Method and apparatus for filling tuna cans with consistent premium tuna cake appearance A tuna fish canning apparatus is provided wherein each can has a premium cake appearance. The machine has first and second turrets adjacent each other which rotate around a common axis. Fish slugs loaded into a shared pocket by the adjacent turrets are severed along... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7373217 | Apparatus for slicing a food product and method therefore Apparatus and method for slicing a food product having a non-uniform cross-sectional area. A laser line scanner scans the cut face of the food product. A line scan camera receives light reflected from the cut face of the food product. The line scan camera is positio... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7328542 | Loading apparatus for food stacks An apparatus is provided for loading stacked food product into packages. Open top containers are arranged in rows and movable into a loading station. A shuttle conveyor has a retractable and extendable conveying surface, the conveying surface having an end region ex... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7220441 | Method and a packaging for packaging and freezing food substances A method of packaging and freezing food substance comprising shaping of a plate of unfrozen food substance and subsequent packaging and freezing of the unfrozen plate of food substance, and wherein a carton packaging is used for packaging the unfrozen plate of the f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7065936 | Fill and packaging apparatus An apparatus is provided for filling food product drafts into packages. A supply of open top containers are arranged in rows and carried by an elongated web of film and are movable by the web into a fill station. A shuttle conveyor has a retractable and extendable c... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7007444 | Method of fabricating a stackable package for displaying products A compact and stackable package for displaying and protecting food and other consumer products is produced by a method wherein the package can be built around the consumer product utilizing primary components which can be shipped to the assembly location in essentia... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6996948 | Apparatus and method for use in packing meat cuts Apparatus for use in packing meat cuts including a machine vision system arranged to scan or view individual meat cuts and acquire dimensional, volume, shape, cut type, or meat quality or grading information or other information relating to the individual meat cuts,... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6941730 | Slicing and vacuum-packing assembly The invention relates to an operating and vacuum packaging machine comprising a handling or processing machine for the handling or processing of a product to be vacuum packed, and a vacuum packing unit designed to work sequentially with said operating machine. ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6935087 | Method and apparatus for automatically packing tuna loins into plastic bags A method and apparatus is provided for automatically forming raw tuna loins into homogenized, formed packets and packing those packets into bags for freezing and shipping to distant canning plants. A conveyed stream of raw tuna loins is tamped and compacted into a h... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6837030 | Automated method for placing sliced food stacks in packages A system and method are provided that allow meat logs to be manually loaded into a slicing station and thereafter be continuously automatically processed at the slicing station, a harping station, and an insertion station for automated packaging thereof without the ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6810637 | Slicing and conveying device for food products The invention relates to a device for slicing food products and for conveying portions of a plurality of imbricated or stacked slices of the product, comprising a slicing device and an additional processing unit arranged below the slicing device, especially a packag... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6698165 | Apparatus for separating laminated areas of multi-layered film, packaging machine comprising this apparatus and package having a cover film consisting of at least two laminated layers A packaging machine is described. A plurality of working stations is arranged between the input side and output side of the machine. A conveyor moves packages carrying a product along a path from the input side to the output side through the working stati... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6666006 | Sheet feeder and sealer for automatic slicing machine A slicing machine has a main housing having a horizontal conveyor surface and a subassembly in the main housing for cutting slices from a foodstuff and depositing them on the conveyor surface. A supply housing immediately upstream of the main housing carr... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6622458 | High speed fish canning method and apparatus A method and apparatus are provided for automatically packaging fish at high speeds into horizontally oriented cans. Speeds of approximately 600 cans per minute may be obtained with the preferred configuration of the present invention, wherein two incomin... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6351927 | Device for portioning foodstuffs, in particular ground meat, to be packed in trays or the like The invention relates to a portioning device for packaging in containers such as trays a pre-established amount of foodstuff such as ground meat, supplied through an extrusion plate of a grinder, which lays down a mass of ground meat in a continuous strip... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6279302 | Sheet-interposing device for automatic slicing machine A slicing machine that deposits foodstuff slices in a stack atop a support in a stacking station has a sheet-interposing device provided with a supply roll of sheet material and a feed roller for feeding a leading end of the sheet material in a direction ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6276115 | Method of cutting and packaging formed loin cuts A process for packaging selected traditional cuts of pork loin by cutting the whole pork loin at successive saw stations to form a predetermined number of traditional cuts and moving the formed traditional cuts to corresponding traditional cut locations. ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 5918444 | Cold cut slicer with packaging device A cold cut slicer having a packaging device is comprised of a sheeting roll having a pulling-out device, and a cutting device for supporting sheets or covering sheets, which are grasped by a swivel arm having evacuatable suction heads and which are brough... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5887413 | Solid pack fish canning machine A fish-canning machine having two adjacent parallel rotary turrets each having fish-receiving forming pockets in the periphery thereof. The turrets are positioned to align two of the pockets with each other to form a single combined pocket which is then f... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5887414 | Solid pack fish canning machine A fish-canning machine having two adjacent parallel rotary turrets each having fish-receiving forming pockets in the periphery thereof. The turrets are positioned to align two of the pockets with each other to form a single combined pocket which is then f... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5724787 | Apparatus for the production of packages The invention relates to an apparatus for producing packages containing sliced food products, in which the slices are rolled up into individual rolls by a rolling facility and deposited in a package.... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5520941 | Method for conditioned storage and sale of perishable foodstuffs A method for conditioned storage and sale of perishable foodstuffs (A), such as for example meat delicacies, to be sold in portions comprises a display cabinet (2,3) containing a refrigerated and protective atmosphere. Pallets (7) are provided for arrangi... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5426917 | Automated line and method for preparing premade food set-ups An apparatus and method for the automated and large scale preparation of layered stacks of one or more food items such as sandwich meats, hors d'oeuvre servings and the like ("set-ups"). The apparatus conveys a continuous web of paper through a plurality ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5421137 | Process for the further handling of sausage In a process for further handling sausages in a sausage string, the sausages are servered from the sausage string at a cutting point. This cutting point is assigned a sensor. The length of the sausage is established ahead of the cutting point by means of ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5391386 | Apparatus and method for transferring multiple food product slices An apparatus for transferring multiple individual slices of a food product material from a food material supply source which includes a plurality of food product supply sources to a support substrate without substantially altering the predesignated patter... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5299409 | Automated line and method for preparing premade food set-ups An apparatus and method for the automated and large scale preparation of layered stacks of one or more food items such as sandwich meats, hors d'oeuvre servings and the like ("set-ups"). The apparatus conveys a continuous web of paper through a plurality ... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5203141 | Apparatus and method for filling a canning container with a shaped foodstuff product, such as tuna fish An apparatus for filling two cylindrical canning containers with cylindrically compacted and shaped tuna chunks. The apparatus has a flared compression channel for relieving excessive compression in the compacted tuna chunks, a movable shaping wall for co... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5199241 | Can star drive for solid pack tuna canning machines A can star drive for a fish-canning machine in which a turret 11 and can star 75 are separately driven, with the can star 75 being rotated through its 120° advance in each cycle during half again as much time as it takes for the turret 11 to advance thro... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5174431 | Rotary apparatus for transfer of food material slices An apparatus for transferring individual slices of food material from a food material supply source to a support member includes at least two rotating hollow drums disposed on and rotating around two associated stationary inner drums. The first rotating d... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5149554 | Method and apparatus for transferring food material slices An apparatus for transferring individual slices of material which are sliced from a material supply to a support web includes a rotating hollow drum disposed on and rotating around a stationary inner drum. The rotating outer drum is disposed proximate to ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5125303 | Combined jump conveyor and slicing machine A combined jump conveyor and slicing machine includes a jump conveyor formed by a first short conveyor (1) adjacent the slicing blade (3) of the slicing machine having a length substantially equal to the length of one or two shingled slices in the shingle... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5113635 | Apparatus for automatically feeding and packing surimi of fish or shellfish An apparatus for automatically feeding and packing surimi of fish or shellfish, including a feed hopper having a top inlet for feeding the surimi therefrom and a bottom outlet for discharging the surimi therefrom. A screw feeder connected to the bottom ou... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5057055 | Sausage link handling and packaging machine A sausage link handling and packaging machine which comprises a feed conveyor for receiving individual sausage links from a link forming machine and for transferring them onto a main conveyor. These sausage links are transferred in a guided manner whereby... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5051268 | Method and apparatus for transferring food material strips onto a support web An apparatus for transferring individual strips of material which are sliced from a material supply to a support web includes two counterrotating rollers. The first roller is disposed proximate to a slicing station and material supply while the second rol... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4894976 | Missing card circuit for a slicing machine An automotive slicing machine includes a circuit for monitoring the operation of a card dispenser during the processing of a sliced product. In one embodiment, when the monitoring circuit detects that a card dispensing operation has not been performed for... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4833865 | Can cleaning system Apparatus to trim the contents of a container projecting from the container top. The apparatus has a central, fixed shaft. A table is rotatably mounted on the shaft. Container receiving platforms can rotate on the table. The platforms can be raised and lo... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4815165 | Apparatus for the production of processed meat products Apparatus for the production of a coherent meat product from pieces of deboned meat, including meat derived from birds, fish, crustaceans and molluscs. The apparatus comprises receiver (11) for receiving pieces of deboned meat, meat tenderizer (33) adapte... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4776146 | Packaging apparatus Apparatus for loading trays with cut product typically meat chops is described, comprising a delivery conveyor (22) onto which are delivered the pieces of cut product (76) in sequence for movement to a delivery station (26), a tray conveyor (32) extending... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4708055 | Apparatus for continuously processing fish flesh An apparatus for continuously processing fish flesh comprising a first continuous force-out feeder in which dewatered fish flesh is continuously fed from the rear end thereof so that the fish flesh is further dewatered and thereafter continuously extruded... | 11/24/1987 |
