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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7662029 | Casing-unfolding module for the automatic stuffing of meat products Employed in a casing applicator (13) for stuffing of meat products which is mounted on a stuffing tube (3) through which the meat mass is displaced coming from a stuffing machine (4) toward a clipping device (5), a supporting tube (2 | 02/16/2010 |
| 7575506 | Automatic spreading adjustment An apparatus for producing a plaited portion on a packaging casing material which accommodates a filling material, in particular sausage meat, wherein the plaited portion is at least approximately filling material-free at least during the formation thereof, includin... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7537514 | Double casing with netting for food products and production method therefor A casing is embodied as a hollow stiff cylindrical support provided with an attachment mechanism in its coupling to the stuffing horn, on which is placed a suitably shirred tube which in turn is coated with a separation sheet and finally by a tubular net, also compr... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7390245 | Method for producing a sleeve that has a greater length and is used for food The invention relates to a method for producing a sleeve that has a greater length and is used for food, especially for sausages. The inventive sleeve consists of a plurality of individual sleeve sections made of sausage casings which contain collagens. According to... | 06/24/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7314405 | Feeder for meat pieces made of entire muscles for a piston stuffing machine Incorporates buckets (3) open on their top in which the meat pieces are loaded, moving on traction device (4) that execute a step by step motion towards the feeding area located between the piston (1) and the body of the stuffing machine (2 | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| RE39943 | Method and means for making coextruded sausage strands An extrusion attachment for sausage making machines have three connection concentric tubes with the inner tube defining a first passageway, the space between the inner restrictor and intermediate second tubes comprising a second first passageway, and the space b... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7244171 | Device and method for producing sausages A device for producing sausages having at least two coextrusion heads for co-extruding strands of sausage meat which are encased with a casing material, a joint supply is provided for the sausage meat and/or a joint supply is provided for the casing material, each b... | 07/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7140958 | Apparatus and method for dividing a sausage strand An apparatus for dividing a sausage strand includes at least two opposite spaced-apart guide elements having a distance which can be adapted to a sausage caliber such that the filled sausage strand can be moved between and through the guide elements in the transport... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7134955 | Loop applicator for chub machine An apparatus for attaching a loop to the end of a chub package formed by a chub machine. The apparatus includes a drive sprocket and variable speed drive motor for feeding a roll of loops to a clipping head assembly of the chub machine and positioning the loops sequ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7121940 | Continuous automatic rack loader An apparatus for automatically delivering raw sausages to a smokehouse rack is described. A continuous rotating conveyor holds a plurality of half-tubular trays hung on gimbals. Sausages are extruded into a tray at a loading station, and the tray is carried around b... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7074120 | Automated loaders or winders and related systems, devices and methods Automated loaders are configured with winding mechanisms that wind elongated products directly onto transfer members, such as sticks or rods, by causing the arm to follow a repetitive motion pattern above and below the stick or rod to discharge the elongated product... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7070492 | Automated support member positioning and removing systems and related devices and methods Methods, systems, and associated devices for supplying support members to a product loading station and automatically removing loaded members therefrom include: (a) advancing in serial order and spaced apart relationship, a plurality of elongated support members hav... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066803 | Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion A machine for stuffing natural casings with emulsion, the machine having an emulsion stuffing tube with a first end and a discharge end for extruding emulsion into a casing on an outer surface of the stuffing tube, the stuffing tube extending through a twisting mech... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7040975 | Automated supply, load and take-away systems and related devices and methods for lengths of elongated product Methods, systems, and associated devices for supplying support members to a product loading station, loading, and automatically removing loaded members therefrom include: (a) advancing in spaced-apart relationship, a plurality of carrier members having opposing firs... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040974 | 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;... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037186 | Machine for tenderising meat morsels It comprises a bench (12) supporting a longitudinal propping floor (1) provided with means to make said meat pieces are intermittently moved forwards along it, at least a tenderizing group (6) provided with sabres (7) uprightly moveable t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6902783 | Edible molded bodies, especially flat and flexible tubular films The invention relates to edible molded bodies in the form of a flat or tubular film based on plastifiable biopolymers, the cleavage products or derivatives thereof and/or synthetic polymers from natural monomers, characterized in that they are produced according to ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6821588 | Film containing starch or starch derivatives and polyester urethanes The invention relates to a film which is produced form a thermoplastic polymer mixture containing the following: a) thermoplastic starch and/or a thermoplastic starch derivative and b) at least one polyester urethane, with the weight ratio a):b) being in the range f... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6780452 | Method 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 |
| 6666759 | Method and device for stuffing meat product sealed by stapling A method and device for stuffing meat materials into sausages closed by stapling. The processed meat materials, before their introduction into an endless sleeve having a first closed extremity and further narrowing of the stuffed material at regular inter... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6645062 | Method and apparatus for stuffing hams A combination stuffing horn (60) and skin brake (70) allows for a stuffing apparatus (10) for meat products (130) to be utilized. The stuffing horn (60) includes an elongate member (62) with a bore (62a) through which the meat product passes. The elongate... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6638154 | Thrust collar for encasing natural casings, and method of use thereof A thrust collar for slidably mountable on an elongated hollow stuffing tube of a meat emulsion encasing machine, comprises a main body having a center bore and a radially extending annular flange, and a disk rotatably mounted on a forward end of the main ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6514134 | Method and apparatus for the production of chain-like foodstuffs such as sausages or the like A process and an apparatus for the production of chain-like or concatenated foodstuff products. A pasty filling material is conveyed by a filling pump through a filling tube which is rotatable about its longitudinal axis, and introduced into a tubular cas... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6467403 | Stuffing-dosing machine for pasty food products The invention relates to a stuffing-dosing machine which comprises a container (1) which receives the food material and which is subjected to a vacuum (V), means for removing and impulsing the food material towards compaction-stuffing cavities, two altern... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6287188 | Feeding device of a stuffing machine; in particular for ground meats or the like The invention relates to a feeding device for a stuffing and dosing pump of a vacuum stuffing machine for alimentary paste products, preferably ground or extruded meats. More specifically, the feeding device provides two elical scroll thrusting elements, ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6234890 | Filling machine for sausage meat or the like having a supply container which can be pivoted away Described is a filling machine comprising a machine frame structure and a supply container which is pivotable from an operative position into a pivoted-away position and in front of the outlet of which is disposed a feed device which can be driven in rota... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6146540 | Dehydration of sludge by injecting sludge into a sequentially connected series of permeable bags and then squeezing the bags A plurality of unit bags 2a, 2b . . . are composed of a permeable strip-shaped nonwoven and arranged in a successive fashion without break so that they can be easily accommodated and stored by being rolled. An annular elastic body 5 disposed around an ope... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6135869 | 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... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6132302 | Device for filling casings as well as machine for filling sausage casings The invention concerns a device for filling casings for a machine for filling sausage casings, with a filling pipe (14) driveable and rotatable around its longitudinal axis (12), onto which pipe a casing (8) fillable through the filling pipe (14) is pulle... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6066036 | Separating device for the filling in and the clipping of products which may have been melted and then resolidified, solid in the form of a paste or dense of different size A separating device for the filling in and the clipping of products which may have been melted and then resolidified, solid, in the form of a paste or dense of different size, to be interposed between the metering machine of the product to be filled in su... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6056634 | Method and apparatus for forming uniform, thinly cohered products from chunks of meat Apparatus for applying a thin liquid coat to muscle meat comprises a conduit of generally constant cross-section along which the muscle meat is forced under pressure. The conduit has an entry port for the introduction of the liquid, and fixed structure is... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6056635 | Method and means of linking sausage A machine for linking sausage has a pump, a stuffing tube, a casing on the stuffing tube, and a pair of linking chains downstream from the outlet end of the stuffing tube. A scale is located downstream of the discharge end of the stuffing tube and is oper... | 05/02/2000 |
