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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7284581 | Funnel A funnel having a receiving chamber, a neck portion, a valve and a coupler connected to the neck portion, the coupler having a housing having an axial bore formed therethrough and a cam body received therein, the cam body having an axial bore formed there through, w... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7134256 | Packaging system The present invention provides a packaging system that includes a beak-shaped hopper, a pair of opening and closing bars, and a sensor for sensing a limitless opening and closing movement of the opening and closing bars. The beak-shaped hopper and the pair of openin... | 11/14/2006 |
| 5976003 | Unitary meat slices and process Whole muscle slicing is accomplished in order to provide a plurality of meat slices, each of which is a single piece of meat, despite the fact that the muscle from which the slices originate had been reshaped prior to slicing in order to enhance slicing y... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5445560 | Hybrid end closure for shirred food casing The invention comprises a shirred food casing strand comprising tubular film food casing compressed along a longitudinal axis of the tubular film to form a compressed pleated strand. The strand has an internal longitudinal bore defined by sidewalls formed... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5431598 | Large encased meat product with flat ends method and apparatus A joining system for flat end discs is used in an elongated encased food product. The food casing is joined to the flat end discs permitting food stuffing of the casing. An adhesive joining, a clamping joining, a tension band joining or a piercing joining... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5277648 | Large encased meat product with flat ends A joining system for flat end discs is used in an elongated encased food product. The food casing is joined to the flat end discs permitting food stuffing of the casing. An adhesive joining, a clamping joining, a tension band joining or a piercing joining... | 01/11/1994 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4803757 | Casing sizing means method and apparatus Sizing means for a food casing including an internal casing sizing means having a convoluted outer periphery which increases the perimeter length of the internal casing sizing means relative to its diameter. An external casing sizing means forces unstretc... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4641687 | Casing article A shirred casing article includes a tubular member which supports shirred casing at one end and a plurality of flattening disks at the other. The casing contains volatile agent which is detrimental to the disks if exposed to the disks over time. A barrier... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4621392 | Stuffing apparatus and method A stuffing apparatus and method for producing flat ended encased products using flat annular discs which are releasably joined together in pairs, wherein during the stuffing operation the discs are wraped to facilitate the separation of the discs so they ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4570300 | Casing article A casing article for use in automatic production of frankfurters and the like includes a tubular core and a shirred casing strand mounted to the core. The core can function as a disposable stuffing horn or it can be placed over a stuffing horn. When used ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4562617 | Method and apparatus for making sausage as a sliced product When making sausage as a sliced product such that, first, a tubular packing sheath, which has been slipped over a filling tube until it reaches its closed end, is filled with ground meat through the filling tube up to a predetermined length and is then ti... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4551884 | Method and apparatus for use in automatically and continuously making sausages with flat ends Method and apparatus for automatically and continuously producing encased food product having a uniform diameter and flat ends.... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4535508 | Expandable casing sizing mechanism and method An expandable casing sizing mechanism and casing sizing method wherein the movement of a sizing member onto a stuffing horn automatically moves an expansion member radially outward to a casing stretching size.... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4525895 | Article for use in automatically and continuously making stuffed casing products A magazine for containing a plurality of flattening discs which can be introduced over a stuffing horn and into a casing during the stuffing thereof to produce a stuffed casing product having two substantially flat ends. The magazine is loaded with a plur... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4466465 | Package article for automatically and continuously making sausages with flat ends Package article useful in producing sausages with flat ends. The package article comprises a shirred casing having at least one unshirred portion and having disposed inside said unshirred portion at least two flattening annular disks with a central hole i... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466984 | Article for use in automatically and continuously making stuffed casing products with flat ends Disclosed is an article including two or more flat discs arranged in associated pairs, the paired discs being introduced over a stuffing horn and into a casing during the stuffing operation to produce a stuffed casing product having two substantially flat... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4422215 | Sheathed hollow stick of shirred casing This relates to the packaging of a casing stick within a sheathing in a manner wherein the casing stick may be readily handled in the required manner without undue damage to that end which is to be telescoped over the filling horn, while at the same time ... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4370778 | Method, a binder, and an apparatus for binding sausage casings A novel sausage casing binder made of elements of plastic and a method by which the elements are mounted against the constricted portion of the casing so as to form a clamp ring thereabout, whereafter the elements are joined to stabilize the rigid and ent... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4335488 | Device for filling a shirred tubular casing A device for controlling the diameter of tubular casing during filling thereof, the device consisting of an annular tapered hollow body having an external diameter smaller than the internal diameter of the deshirred tubular casing whereby during filling a... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4160305 | Apparatus and method for inserting a sizing disc into a tubular casing Apparatus and method for implanting a sizing disc into an open unshirred end of a shirred tubular casing wherein the sizing disc has a larger periphery than the unstretched inner periphery of the unshirred end of the casing.... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4028775 | Apparatus for inserting a sizing disc into a tubular casing Apparatus and method for implanting a sizing disc into an open unshirred end of a shirred tubular casing wherein the sizing disc is larger in diameter than the inflated unshirred end of the casing. The invention provides means for the uniform contacting a... | 06/14/1977 |