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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7614942 | Smoke stick gripper A gripper system for gripping and transferring a smoke stick introduced into sausage loops or into other products suspended on hooks in loops or in pairs. For the simple and proper gripping and transferal of a smoke stick a smoke stick is first lifted to remove the ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7354338 | Method and apparatus for transferring a stick with a food product such as a sausage suspended therefrom An apparatus for transferring a stick with a food product such as a sausage suspended therefrom includes: a stick supplying device for transferring onto a stick a sausage suspended from a loop forming device and for subsequently supplying the stick with the sausage ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347772 | Conveyor system with pivotable hooks A conveyor system for linked sausage strands having a frame with an operating platform. The platform has opposite first and second ends, opposite sides, a top surface, and a wall extending along the sides and ends. A channel is formed in the top surface and a convey... | 03/25/2008 |
| 6869353 | Method and apparatus for suspending a sausage from a stick An apparatus for suspending a sausage (6) from a stick (7) includes an endless circulating body (3) provided with hooks (4) stick supporting members (10) for supporting the stick at a position below the hooks, a pair of stick-suppo... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6390912 | Hanging loop for sausages or the like and a method for the production thereof The invention relates to a hanging loop for sausages or the like which is made of a meltable loop thread whose free ends are fused and tied together into a fisherman's knot. The invention also relates to an arrangement of these knotted hanging loops which... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6290591 | Method and apparatus for determining the number of looped sausages for deposit on a smokestick A method for determining the number of loops of linked sausages for deposit on a smokestick includes; preparing an elongated strand of stuffed sausages; dividing the strand of sausages into a plurality of sausage links; determining the desired number of l... | 09/18/2001 |
| 5772499 | Arrangement of sausage suspension loops This invention relates to an arrangement of a plurality of individual, closed sausage suspension loops, which are held beside each other by a belt, so that from each side of the belt a partial loop protrudes, where the first partial loop is designed for b... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5730649 | Device for making sausages The present invention relates to a device for making and transferring natural skin sausages formed in coherent chains to a smoke stick. To design a device of this type in such a manner that it is suited for automatically or semiautomatically transferring ... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5453046 | Rotatable linking and hanging device Tubular casing with a food filling is linked and hung by a rotatable hanging stick having an array of notches or grooves (18) extending along the length of the stick at its perimeter. The grooves (18) are generally V-shaped but the trough has straight par... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5429547 | Sausage forming reel A sausage reel includes first and second end plates with a plurality of support bars extending therebetween. The bars are releasably fastened between the end plates in either first or second arrays. A continuous sausage is wound about the entire selected ... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5372537 | Apparatus and method for arranging elongated food casings on a support A device and method for automatically arranging a flexible casing of food on a support is disclosed. The device includes a rotating barrel assembly having hinged doors which rotate inwardly to reduce the effective perimeter of the barrel assembly. The bar... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5354229 | Process and a device for suspending chains of sausages in loops A process and device are disclosed for hanging sausage chains in loops. Successive hooks that move in an essentially horizontal transport plane engage and carry sausage links at twist points located between predetermined adjacent links. Twist points are e... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5354230 | Food processing system with simplified loading and transfer A food processing system (10) includes a first conveyor (12) having sprocket driven chains (14 and 16) extending along a loading run (26) and a return run (28) at a loading station (80). A support bar (52) extends transversely between the chains (14 and 1... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5334088 | Apparatus for combing and decombing bacon A product hanger apparatus for hanging products such as meat products during processing through a processing chamber, the processing chamber incorporating a conveyor for conveying products through the chamber, and a controller for controlling the processi... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5306204 | Storage rack and linker for an elongated strand of linked meat products A storage rack and linker for an elongated meat strand has a pair of spaced parallel plates with a plurality of elongated parallel bars extending there between. The parallel plates are comprised of two overlapping plate elements, one of which has a series... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5238353 | Device for the input and carrying away of smoking or cooking rods for automatic suspension of a plurality of sausages A process and device for the input and carrying away of smoking rods or cooking rods to and from a station for the automatic suspension of sausages provided with loops on a rod which in turn is tightly chucked at one end works as follows: the rods are fir... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5197915 | Method and apparatus for suspending a chain of linked In the suspending method, a signal of a value proportional to the amount of movement of the conveying device for conveying a chain of products is generated, and suspending members are controlled on the basis of that signal in such a manner as to suspend t... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5163864 | Apparatus for feeding sausage loops to a smoking rod Apparatus for feeding a chain of connected sausages and for suspending the sausages in the form of loops on a smoking rod in which the outlet end of the feeding means is located above the path described by the transport hooks and the end of the transport ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5100364 | Process and device for the mechanized suspension of sausages A process for the mechanized suspended on smoking or cooking rods of individual sausages produced in an automatic filling installation with teardrop-shaped suspension loops fastened to their ends is characterized in that following the picking up by a firs... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5082419 | Process for the input and carrying away of smoking or cooking rods for automatic suspension of a plurality of sausages A process for the input and carrying away of smoking rods or cooking rods to and from a station for the automatic suspension of sausages provided with loops on a rod which in turn is tightly chucked at one end works as follows: the rods are first brought ... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5074822 | Method of closing a tubular food casing A method is provided for closing an end of a tubular food casing in such a way that the end so closed is made suitable for use as a hanger for the casing. In one embodiment, an end of a food casing is formed into a rigid loop suitable for hanging the casi... | 12/24/1991 |
| 4761854 | Suspension device for strings of sausage links To achieve automatic removal of a sausage link string 6 from a feeding device 3, 4 and to attain a delivery to curing rods 11, hooks 7 are supported at a revolving moving chain 8 to be rotatable in their longitudinal axis and to be pivotable transversely ... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4644607 | Device for applying a strand of sausage or the like to a smoking rod In order to be able to fully automatically deposit a sausage strand (1) in turns on a smoking rod (2), the strand of sausages (5) reeled off a portioning device (4) with the aid of a rotating carrier finger (12) is first "wound up" on a feeder arm (14). T... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4540094 | Product hanger Support apparatus for supporting products on a processing line of the type wherein a plurality of support bars are supported transversely of such line, and comprising hanger means shaped and adapted for supporting products therefrom, attachment means at e... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4417509 | Tierable and nestable receptacle A receptacle which may be tiered or stacked with other like receptacles and adapted to be nested when empty. Each receptacle in the tier or stack is intended to hold food products that are to be placed in a smoke house for cooking with the weight of each ... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4322874 | Multiple stick for smoke house A processing chamber having a predetermined cross-sectional area, and an overhead conveyor system extending therethrough, the conveyor system incorporating a plurality of movable support members or trollies, and a plurality of generally downwardly depende... | 04/06/1982 |
| 3982300 | Hanger for smoke house A support bar for a hanger, in which the bar has a guide rod member extending substantially parallel thereto along all of or at least the major portion of its length, and connecting with catch means at one end of the bar, there being an eye at the other e... | 09/28/1976 |
