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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8006614 | Horizontal hotpress system Two press cylinders are disposed at an equal interval at left and right having the opening-closing cylinder therebetween, so as to have the approximately same distance from the conveying reference plane as the opening-closing cylinder. The opening-closing cylinder c... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7343853 | Press, particularly a multilevel press A press, especially a multilevel press, has a press stand of one or more press frames whose head and foot pieces are of cast iron and whose vertical uprights or tension shanks are of steel plate construction and formed with T or hammerheads bearing on the head piece... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7275480 | Retort basket securing system A system for securing a basket containing product securely within an autoclave or retort. The preferred embodiment of the present invention is used with rotational retorts, which generally include a rotational insert for receiving product-loaded baskets, the rotatio... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7229264 | Platen with self-cleaning exhaust holes and multi-opening press utilizing same A platen press for pressing loose wood-based material into structural panels at high temperature while exhausting steam generated in the process through vents distributed across the face of a platen to thereby produce an improved product. The vents are periodically ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7104186 | Food package holder An apparatus is provided for substantially maintaining a position of a plurality of packages (30) between a pair of trays (102 and 104) inside the drum of an agitating retort when the agitation process is applied to the packages. When the first ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7069840 | Apparatus and process for pressing and cooking food product logs An apparatus and a method for pressing and cooking and/or chilling food product logs. The apparatus and method comprise or use a tower press which has vertically compressible tiers and is positioned and mounted at one location for selectively elevating and lowering ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6938541 | Heaten platen-type press A press has at least two rigid and generally planar platens each comprised of a rigid plate having a face, formed offset from the face with an array of heating passages, and formed with a separate array of grooves open at the face. A cover plate overlying the face i... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6865984 | Press, especially single-level or multilevel of continuous press A single-level or multilevel or continuous board press is composed of a succession of press frames which are subdivided horizontally at their vertical limbs for transport and when then welded together at the erection site. Leveling strips are provided along mounted ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6851358 | Frame for panel press A panel press has horizontally spaced and vertically oriented window-type tension frames each in turn having an upper beam having opposite ends each formed with an upwardly directed seat, a lower beam beneath the upper beam and having opposite ends each formed with ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6773252 | Press molding apparatus Press molding apparatus may include a plurality of pairs of forming molds each having an upper mold and a lower mold. The forming molds may be arranged in series in the same direction as their respective mold closing/opening directions. Further, the upper mold or th... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6598520 | Hot pressing apparatus In a hot pressing apparatus, a hot-plate pressing cylinder is provided at the center of a moving plate, and a substantially central part of each of the materials to be laminated between hot plates, which are pressed by a fixed plate and a moving plate, is... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6550377 | Hot press apparatus A hot press apparatus in which workpieces are placed between heating plates in a chamber of a machine bed, so that the workpieces are heated and pressed by moving a movable plate toward a stationary plate to form a laminate, wherein the movable plate is h... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6159359 | Modular filter apparatus A modular filter apparatus is formed from stacked filter modules. Slurry to be filtered flows into the apparatus through a flowmeter and check valve into a header. The flow of slurry then branches off through feeders to each of the filter modules. Connect... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5921171 | Pressing device for molding and cooking products A pressing device comprised of stackable moulds for cooking and shaping hams into an oval cross-section. Each mould comprises transverse sides, longitudinal sides, crosspieces extending between the longitudinal sides, and a plurality of fixed troughs exte... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5914147 | Method of handling moulds containing meat products and plant for the execution of the method A pressing column for the pressing, for example, of hams in molds is provided with shelves to support the molds. The shelves are mutually connected by links which allow a certain mutual movement between the shelves in the vertical direction. By raising th... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5862747 | Apparatus and method for pressing meat products The present invention relates generally to a system for pressing meat products. The system includes a press rack having platens that are movable between a loading position in which meat products can be loaded between the platens, and a pressing position i... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5762786 | Plate filter press A plate filter press with chamber plates and diaphragm carrier plates and diaphragms secured thereto is provided that makes it possible to provide an adequately large, radial slurry admission cross-section that remains free of blockage. An annular support... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5410956 | Vacuum hot platen press with airtight covers in sliding contact with tensile strength members A vacuum hot platen press for pressing laminated boards includes a seal cover assembly for keeping the internal process chamber airtight. The seal cover assembly is fixed in an airtight manner to a cylinder plate located below the platens, through which t... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5381725 | Press for molding meat products during cooking A meat press is provided which includes an actuating dolly and a press tree having first and second frames. The actuating dolly includes a subframe that is vertically extendable and carries cylinders that engage portions of the overlying tree when brought... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5228946 | Multi-plate lamination fixture A multi-plate lamination fixture includes at least a first, an intermediate and a bottom plate, of which the intermediate and either the bottom or the top plate each have a keyway therein adjacent one surface thereof and in which the intermediate and the ... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5184548 | Can crushing apparatus employing a cooperative plate and anvil assembly An apparatus to include a top plate and base plate, with a press plate reciprocatably mounted between the top plate and base plate to crush and deform various containers for disposal and recycling. The use of pivotal link members operative through an actu... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5182121 | Hot press A hot press including a displaceable sleeve for surrounding materials of a multi-layer substrate under a reduced pressure condition, a gas pressurizing condition and a heating condition with thermal plates. Upper and lower sealing units seal an interior o... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5139664 | Plate and cell holder A filter plate press or an electrolyzer cell has a series of filter plates or cell frames, respectively, which are moved as a stack against a press or cell headpiece by a follower moved by one or more rodded cylinders mounted on a fixed bracket. Scissors ... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5091041 | Bonding apparatus for bonding friction material A bonding assembly for bonding carbon fibrous segments with adhesive on one side, to a frustoconical surface of an annular clutch member. The bonding assembly includes a ring member with a frustoconical surface complementary to the annular clutch member f... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5069120 | Apparatus for pressing multilayer packs An apparatus for pressing multilayer packs (5,6) by vacuum application and isostatic pressure under heat action is described. The apparatus comprises a pressure-tight chamber with several superimposed stages, in each case intended to receive one multilaye... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5044913 | Device at multi platen presses A loading elevator for a multi-platen press is provided with a pusher which simultaneously transfers a number of transport plates loaded with stampings to the press. After press operations are completed, the plates are unloaded by an extractor to an unloa... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5021155 | Membrane filter plate A filter plate arrangement for a filter press which includes a carrier plate, at least one membrane arranged on the side of the carrier plate having spacing ribs for positioning a filter cloth, a sealing edge frame for securing the membrane to the carrier... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4907421 | Automatic platefreezer, with horizontal freezing plates, suitable to apply pressure on the product during normal freezing operations Automatic freezer with horizontal refrigerating plates that continuously apply pressure on a product being frozen, in which a series of plates held between a bottom and a top frame linked through rods: with lifting and lowering the above plates in order t... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4857135 | Composite board press A composite board press is provided with a single set of platen supporting rods for supporting and loosely guiding a plurality of platens, the heights of which are dually adjustable. The invention also includes a method of laminating a composite to form a... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4855062 | Apparatus and process for regulating a filter plate contact pressure in filter presses In order to regulate the filter plate contact pressure in a plate filter press comprising a hydraulic closing cylinder unit, the compression force prevailing in the filter plate pack, or the compression of at least one component such as, for example, a fi... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4844803 | Filter press with a plurality of membrane filter plates A housing block with a first passage and a second passage extending parallel to the first passage is attached to each membrane filter plate. A piston is mounted slidably in the first passage and a spacing bolt is positioned slidably in the second passage.... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4826607 | Method of and apparatus for filtering a slurry Filter cake produced from a slurry is compressed in an enclosure (6) having a pair of opposed flexible walls (5) at least one of which is constituted by a filter and drainage medium. The filter cake is cyclically deformed while under compression with the ... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4817515 | Cheese press A cheese press for a plurality of rows of cheese moulds is constituted by a plurality of individual cassette shaped pressing units (30) each adapted to receive a row of moulds or mould batteries and each ceilingwise provided with pressing means (68) for p... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4799425 | Board press A board press consisting of a plurality of press plates placed one above the other and which are pressed together with the aid of pressure cylinders when pressing boards, and said press plates being interconnected with a simultaneous apparatus which maint... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4748908 | Waste containers having compressed waste hold-down mechanisms Contaminated waste containers having one or more internally disposed waste compression frames which are locked into position within the containers by resiliently biased hold-down mechanisms oriented within guide channels which extend along the side walls ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4746428 | Filter plate A filter wall constructed separtely from the frame member is clamped in a clamping slot, to which toward the outside edge of the filter plate a widened sealing slot in a shoulder of the support is connected. A projecting edge of the filter wall extends in... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4726753 | Apparatus for producing moulded articles In an apparatus for producing moulded articles, particularly of plastic, by means of a mould formed from individual mould parts (3, 4, 5) optionally fixed to mounting surfaces, support parts, etc and which, following a closed position, move during the mou... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4721040 | Seamless pressure responsive diaphragm installation A flanged, dish shaped rectangular pressure responsive diaphragm is made from non-stretchable flat sheet stock in which the corners are formed with a tapering loop of excess material, and pleat folds take up the excess flange material to allow a tab porti... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4709446 | Smoke house tree A device is disclosed herein which may be used to simultaneously squeeze and shape a quantity of hams or other meats during the cooking process. The device comprises pairs of racks or trays with one of each pair being fixed and one movable. The pairs of r... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4668385 | Filter press A filter press equipped with a filter cloth hanging rod detecting arrangement which includes a support beam which is so arranged between the front and rear stands and above the hanging rods as to suspend the shatter members by means of corresponding brack... | 05/26/1987 |
