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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157623 | Apparatus for handling of sausage casings A sausage casing gripping apparatus for use with gathered concertinaed sausage casings and a sausage filling machine. The apparatus includes two gripping elements which are movable relative to each other and which grip the concertinaed sausage casing by a reduction ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152604 | Detecting structure for a stuffing apparatus A detecting structure for a stuffing apparatus includes: a stuffing nozzle having a material discharge port and a photoelectric sensor for detecting a terminating end of a casing loaded on an outer periphery of the stuffing nozzle, wherein the photoelectric sensor i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8142264 | Computer program products for ruckers capable of rucking fixed diameter coverings Computer program products for ruckers for rucking sleeves of covering material onto a chute body include a translating member disposed in a housing having an axis of movement configured to reciprocally translate a chute body about the axis of movement; and at least ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8113924 | Apparatus for transferring a stick with a strand of sausage or the like suspended therefrom An apparatus for transferring a stick with a strand of sausage or the like suspended therefrom includes a transversely transferring device for transferring a stick from a first position to a second position by stick transverse transfer members; and a vertically tran... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8047900 | Loading caps for ruckers capable of rucking fixed diameter coverings Methods, apparatus and associated devices for rucking sleeves of covering material onto a chute body include a translating member disposed in a housing having an axis of movement configured to reciprocally translate a chute body about the axis of movement; and at le... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7972201 | Ruckers capable of rucking fixed diameter coverings and associated devices, methods, systems and computer program products Methods, apparatus and associated devices for rucking sleeves of covering material onto a chute body include a translating member disposed in a housing having an axis of movement configured to reciprocally translate a chute body about the axis of movement; and at le... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7914364 | Hybrid filling system A system for encasing food products in film is described. The system comprises a mixer, a sealer in fluid communication with the mixer, a swivel mounted to a downstream side of the sealer, a stuffing horn mounted to a downstream side of the swivel, and a clipper. Th... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7775861 | Method of and apparatus for redistribution of pasty filling material The invention concerns a method of and an apparatus for redistribution of pasty filling material in a closed, individually separated packaging casing in tube or bag form. At least two conveyor belts form between mutually facing first belt portions a through-passage ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7740526 | Apparatus for the automatic stuffing of meat products into a double casing comprising a sheet and a net A device for producing meat products by stuffing meat mass in a double casing made up of a film and a net, has a stuffing tube with a diameter, a mechanism for passing the meat mass through the stuffing tube and into the double casing and a mechanism for shaping the... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7704129 | Ruckers capable of rucking fixed diameter coverings and associated devices, methods, systems and computer program products Methods, apparatus and associated devices for rucking sleeves of covering material onto a chute body include a translating member disposed in a housing having an axis of movement configured to reciprocally translate a chute body about the axis of movement; and at le... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7704130 | Sausage casing brake with adjustable braking force A retention device for a tubular casing material for receiving a viscous or granular filling material in a packaging machine, in particular a clipping machine that has a filling tube for filling the tubular casing material with the filling material, where the retent... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7597613 | Method and device for filling paste-like substances into skins A device and a method for filling a paste-like substance into a skin, and having a filling tube through which the paste-like substance is pushed into the skin, and a casing brake which is arranged in the area of the ejection end of the filling tube and which presses... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7582006 | Machine for preparing encased cured meats A machine for preparing encased cured meats, comprising a first tube for conveying the product to a clipping head, the tube being adapted to be wrapped by a cellulose sheet designed to contain the cured meats and drawn continuously from a reel, and a second tube, wh... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7568971 | Automated laterally offset retractable food dislodgement or guiding mechanisms and associated methods and systems Commercial production transport systems, mechanisms, and guides for food processing are configured so as to automate food handling and/or transport. The systems employ fingers that can be inserted to gap spaces in a carrier surface so as to dislodge, guide and/or ro... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7544118 | Hybrid filling system A system for producing food products is described. The system comprises a mixer, a stationary horn connected to the mixer and mounted in a heat-sealer, a plow connected to the stationary horn, a first product horn having a first end and a second end, the first produ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7524240 | Device and method for the manufacture of a sausage skein with any geometrical external contour In order to manufacture a sausage skein of any geometrical external contour, a sausage-forming device has a coextrusion head for coextruding a paste mass and a casing enclosing the mass, wherein the extrusion head is provided with a filling tube for ejecting the pas... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7507150 | Shirred casing A shirred fibrous food casing defines a shirred stick formed from a tubular fibrous casing. The shirred stick includes an average outside diameter at least 120% of the average inflated diameter of the deshirred casing. Additionally, the shirred stick includes an ave... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7494405 | Method and apparatus for the automatic stuffing of meat products into a double casing comprising a sheet and a net Based on a conventional installation including a stuffing-portioning machine (1) and a fast clipper (2), duly synchronised, between which is established a shaping device (3) that converts the film (5) meant to wrap food products that is s... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7479057 | Device for providing a second tail length A device as well as a method for forming a sausage tail on a casing material, that receives a filling product, in particular sausage meat, wherein the sausage tail at least approximately does not contain filling product at least while it is being formed. The device ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7476147 | Belt fed food casing system Shirred casing is packaged in pockets on a belt to assist in the stuffing of the shirred casing by an automated stuffing machine. The package is made up of a belt with pockets for the shirred casings. The pockets provide structural integrity to the shirred casings a... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7399219 | Gathered tubular film and method device for gathering The invention relates to a gathered tubular film (12), especially consisting of artificial sausage skin, which is concertinaed to form a tubular caterpillar-type element. Until now, in order to gather as large a length as possible of the tubular film (12 | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7322163 | Clipping packaging apparatus and methods An apparatus for enclosing a product in a covering material includes a product feed and covering system, a clipper mechanism and a tensioning system. The product feed and covering system is configured to apply the covering material over the product. The clipper mech... | 01/29/2008 |
| RE40029 | Process for the continuous manufacture of sausages A process and apparatus for the continuous manufacture of food products such as sausages is provided which eliminates the need for intermediate stuffing of the food product into casings which are discarded prior to final packaging. The preferred apparatus of the inv... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310926 | Apparatus for producing film tube from film strip An apparatus for producing film tube which can be filled with liquid, viscous or granular filling material, from a film strip, is provided wherein the apparatus comprises a filling tube which can be connected to a filling machine, a device for transforming the film ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7258604 | Device and method for the ordered deposition of parted sausage portions In order to be able to accept single sausage portions after leaving the filling machine and to be able to deposit them in an ordered manner with respect to quantity and position, an acceleration device for accepting the sausage portions from a filling machine in a r... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255638 | Handling system for sausages A handling system for sausages (1) wherein sausages are suspended on strings (9), on carriers in a supporting frame for handling sausages (1) on smoke sticks (8), wherein the supporting frame (2) includes a handling device (3 | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254929 | Process and machine for packing pasty, liquid or semiliquid products Process and machine for packing pasty, liquid or semiliquid products comprising: nonstop feeding two sheets (1, 2) sandwiching ducts (3) ending in nozzles (4) feeding pasty, liquid or semiliquid products to be packed (M); nonstop longitudinally ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247359 | Meat product casing having a maximum extensible diameter A tubular casing for use with food products which includes knitted stockinette, longitudinal threads and circumferential spiral threads that are held to stockinette by stitches located along the length of the casing. Each thread comprises an elastic thread formed fr... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7204747 | Device and method for filling sausage sleeves with paste filling material A method and a device for filling a sausage sleeve with paste filling material, where to facilitate a more uniform ejection of the paste filling material and to minimize turbulences in the filling flow on exiting the filling tube, and so as to achieve a smooth sausa... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7195551 | Casingless food production methods, systems, and associated wrappable coverings Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) moving at least one flexible cover member having a predetermined length with primary surface and opposing lateral edge portions along a predetermined travel path; (b) in... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182683 | Casingless food production methods, systems, and associated traveling matable mold shells Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) providing a series of shells, the shells having sufficient structural rigidity to define an enclosed cavity space of predetermined substantially constant size and shape;... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7182684 | Method and means for stuffing natural casings with a sausage emulsion A method of stuffing natural casings with emulsion involves placing a follower against an upstream end of the natural casing to slide the natural casing forwardly along a hollow meat stuffing tube. The follower is mounted on the stuffing tube and advances the natura... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7166021 | Method and apparatus for loading and/or unloading a storage unit An apparatus and a method for loading and/or unloading a storage unit, in particular smoke trucks in which sausages are suspended by strings from sticks (1), a plurality of sticks (1) with sausages preferably being held by grip arms (2.1, 2.2) a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165378 | Process and machine for the packaging of products with stretchable thermoplastic film, particularly of the barrier type A machine for the packaging of products with stretchable and thermoplastic film, comprising of a tubularization means comprising a tubular forming head device having an inlet and an outlet, for the tubularization of a wrapping film taken from a feeding bobbin and me... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165670 | Food transport routing systems, devices, and guides for food processing systems and related methods Commercial production transport systems, mechanisms, and guides for food processing are configured so as to automate food transport. The system can direct food to travel serially over side-by-side predetermined travel lanes using one or more of a pick-up mechanism a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166020 | Method and apparatus for transporting sausage to a treatment room A method is for transporting one or more sausages provided with a suspension member into a treatment room. The sausages are placed in a holder in a desired position. A number of holders with the sausages therein are disposed adjacently of each other in the desired p... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7134954 | Method for producing modified natural intestines The present invention is to provide a method for producing an animal natural intestine having improved texture and hardness by treatment with a solution containing a food emulsifier. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131904 | Automated laterally offset retractable food dislodgement or guiding mechanisms and associated methods and systems Commercial production transport systems, mechanisms, and guides for food processing are configured so as to automate food handling and/or transport. The systems employ fingers that can be inserted to gap spaces in a carrier surface so as to dislodge, guide and/or ro... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7094141 | Method and apparatus for loading casings onto the stuffing tube of a sausage making machine A casing hopper for sausage encasing machines includes a hopper having a downwardly sloping bottom terminating in a downwardly extending fence wall. A chute wall is substantially vertically disposed in parallel spaced condition to the fence wall to form a substantia... | 08/22/2006 |
