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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7867068 | Kits with pivot heads for producing encased products Methods for producing encased products using selectable first and second horns to thereby produce products in selectable different casing types include: (a) providing an apparatus having a first horn that, in operation, is configured to be in fluid communication wit... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7775862 | Horns for producing encased products and related horn rotor assemblies Methods for producing encased products using selectable first and second horns to thereby produce products in selectable different casing types include: (a) providing an apparatus having a first horn that, in operation, is configured to be in fluid communication wit... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7762874 | Shaping device and shaping method for forming rounded tips on the ends of sausages A shaping device and a method of forming rounded tips on the ends of sausages and of tying off and/or parting into individual portions a continuously produced sausage skein filled with paste material, with two oppositely located displacement assemblies, which move t... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7467993 | Systems with interchangeable horns for producing encased products and related methods, computer program products and horn rotor assemblies Methods for producing encased products using selectable first and second horns to thereby produce products in selectable different casing types include: (a) providing an apparatus having a first horn that, in operation, is configured to be in fluid communication wit... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7455578 | Casing brake adjustable during production A casing brake for holding a casing at a free end of a stuffing pipe, via which the casing is stuffed with a pasty material, and to a method for adjusting the brake power of a casing brake. To adjust an exact brake power, the casing brake has a brake ring which is a... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7356977 | Automated clipping packaging systems with bottom-up cutting members and associated methods Methods, devices and computer program products automatically package an object in a covering material such as casing and/or netting by: (a) automatically pushing at least one object through a product chute; (b) pulling a covering material upstream of the product chu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7313896 | Automated clipping packaging systems Methods, devices and computer program products automatically package an object in a covering material such as casing and/or netting by: (a) automatically pushing at least one object through a product chute; (b) pulling a covering material upstream of the product chu... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7237369 | Automated clipping packaging systems Methods, devices and computer program products automatically package an object in a covering material such as casing and/or netting by: (a) automatically pushing at least one object through a product chute; (b) pulling a covering material upstream of the product chu... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234287 | Netting chutes with ribbed flooring for manual and/or automated clipping packaging apparatus Netting chutes suitable for use with manual and automatic packaging operations to enclose product in netting packaging include at least one axially extending rib. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7222469 | Netting chutes with floors having channels for packaging products with clippers Netting chutes suitable for use with manual and automatic packaging operations to enclose product in netting packaging include a channel formed by a longitudinally extending well and/or at least one pair of axially extending ribs. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7140160 | Push/pull clip feed configuration for selectively delivering or withdrawing a clip to allow output of one clip alone or two clips concurrently and associated devices, methods, systems and computer program products Methods and apparatus for supplying a clip to a clip window associated with a closure attachment mechanism having a closure punch path for attaching a single clip or two clips to a target tubular work piece in a closure zone include: (a) forcing a plurality of clips... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7028452 | Packaging device for fitting and heat-shrinking packaging film A packaging device includes a film fitting mechanism, a film shrinking mechanism and a controller. The film fitting mechanism fits a tubular heat shrinkage film over a film cylinder and moves the film a distance along the cylinder and cuts a length of the film off. ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6964605 | Production method of natural intestine sausage and device therefor A method and an apparatus (1) for manufacturing natural intestine sausages includes a stuffing tube (4), an intestine pushing member (6), an intestine-pushing-member driving device (7), an intestine receiving member (9), a braking ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6920738 | PUSH/PULL CLIP FEED CONFIGURATION FOR SELECTIVELY DELIVERING OR WITHDRAWING A CLIP TO ALLOW OUTPUT OF ONE CLIP ALONE OR TWO CLIPS CONCURRENTLY AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS Methods and apparatus for supplying a clip to a clip window associated with a closure attachment mechanism having a closure punch path for attaching a single clip or two clips to a target tubular work piece in a closure zone include: (a) forcing a plurality of clips... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6843713 | Method and means for encasing sausage A method of advancing a sausage casing mounted on a stuffing tube into a twisting mechanism includes placing a hollow natural sausage casing on the outside surface of a stuffing tube and engaging the casing with a roller. The roller then forces the casing to slide t... | 01/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6740349 | Apparatus and method for forming casingless sausages An apparatus and method is provided for forming shaped food products from an emulsion or batter. A stuffing tube includes a wall defining a central passage for emulsion, and a treating fluid passage positioned within the wall and radially outside of the central pass... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6733812 | Apparatus and method for forming casingless sausages An apparatus and method is disclosed for forming an emulsion or batter into shaped food products without the use of a casing. The apparatus includes a hollow stuffing tube connected to a source of suitable proteinaceous emulsion, and a molding tube mounted about the... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6524178 | Double clipping apparatus and method for forming clipped sausages The present invention concerns a double clipping apparatus for closing filled casings with clips (4a, 4b), on which the clipping-distance (X) can be adjusted without an exchange of components. This increases the flexibility of the double clipping apparatu... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6444248 | Apparatus and method for forming casingless sausages The present invention relates to apparatus and method for forming a proteinaceous emulsion or batter into shaped food products such as sausages without the use of a casing. A supply of suitable proteinaceous emulsion is provided and such emulsion is conve... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6401885 | Internal brake mechanism for plastic film for a product filling machine A brake mechanism which permits adjustment of the outer reach or extent of an elastomeric ring about the periphery of the brake. The adjustment is effected by engaging and bending the elastomeric ring seal to a greater or lesser extent depending upon the ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6264541 | Apparatus for the production of stuffed sausage products What is described is an apparatus for stuffing casings or similar receptacles with paste, in particular with sausage meat or other foods in the form of paste, using a portioning means (16) that stuffs adjustable portions of the paste through a stuffing ho... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6245369 | Method and means for controlling the variations in weight of extruded sausages A conveyor assembly for moving an extruded strand of sausage (26) from an extruding machine (10) and for coagulating the outer surface (28) of the strand (26) has first (48) and second (49) conveyor elements mounted on a frame (36). The conveyor assembly ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5885150 | Conveyor construction for transporting and forming tubular casing containing viscous material A conveyor system, for forming slack-filled casing into a generally uniform cross-section product uniformly along the length of the casing, includes an upper and lower conveyor assembly which are both driven by an air motor and which are adjustably spaced... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5743792 | Process of producing sausages This invention relates to a process of producing sausages, wherein a tubular sausage casing closed at one end and provided with a figurative print is filled with sausage meat by pressing the sausage meat through the open end of the sausage casing into the... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5512012 | Sausage casing holding device A casing holding device for a machine for filling and twisting off sausages includes a filling tube rotatable along its longitudinal axis, onto which a slug can be pulled, and which, on its free end, is equipped with an output opening for the output of sa... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5468179 | Apparatus and methods for preparing loaf shaped sausage products in slack filled food casings Product discharge section of a stuffing apparatus for partially filling food casings is equipped with a device for uniformly distributing and reshaping meat emulsions and other foodstuffs from a rounded configuration to other desired shapes, such as loaf ... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5466184 | Device for removing surface air in casings A product stuffing horn assembly includes a vacuum ring affixed near the outlet end of the stuffing horn over which shirred casing may flow. The vacuum ring is connected via appropriate tubing to a vacuum source so that air may be withdrawn from the regio... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5330382 | Sizer adapter apparatus and method for creating substantially evenly and incompletely filled casings Sizing apparatus (10) for handling and casing of a flowable material such as meat is provided in order to produce individual, loose-filled casings (98) having product evenly distributed along the lengths thereof. The apparatus (10) preferably includes an ... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5273482 | Reinforced casings for preparing dimensionally uniform processed food products with flat ends Tubular food casings for preparing dimensionally uniform processed meat products with flat ends for maximizing yields for prepackaged product. Casings reinforced with one or more narrow polymeric bands securely bonded to the terminal ends of casing units ... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5217404 | Process for the calibration, length measurement and packaging of portions of intestine used in pork butchery and apparatus for carrying it out This process involves continuously measuring the size of a portion of intestine by means (3) and commanding by means of a computer (8) the selection of a packaging container or support (7) corresponding to this size. This process also involves measuring b... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5211599 | Adjustable sizing device for tubular food casing Casing material is paid out from the stuffing horn of a food emulsion extrusion system to stuff a food emulsion product. The casing material is drawn over a sizing means which provides varying degrees of sizing and hold back force to the casing material a... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5203735 | Vacuumized internal sizing ring assembly and method of use Internal sizing ring assembly and method for its use on a stuffing horn to extract air from within a tube-like casing having a closed end during stuffing operations, includes a sizing ring having an inner mounting surface adapted to conform to the outer s... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5167567 | Mechanism for control of gathering plates for a double clipper apparatus An improved mechanism controls gathering plates for an apparatus for the creation of filled tubing products. The plate comprise a longitudinally stationary pair of plates and a longitudinally movable pair of plates. The apparatus includes a cylinder, a pi... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5152712 | Stuffing method and apparatus A stuffing apparatus and method which avoids the smearing of fat just under the casing surface by using a stuffing horn which discharges food product in an axial stream and a plurality of radial streams so the food product swirls as it enters the casing. ... | 10/06/1992 |
