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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7222727 | Low cost food processing belts and other conveyances manufactured from conductive loaded resin-based materials Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways for the transporting of material are formed of a conductive loaded resin-based material such that fragments of these structures can be detected by a metal detector. The conductive loaded resin-based material comprises micro... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7033264 | Method and means for filling natural casing sausages A method of filling a natural hollow elongated casing with meat emulsion involves placing a natural casing on an elongated meat emulsion stuffing tube having a meat emulsion discharge end, closing an extended end of the natural casing over the discharge end of the s... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6988943 | Device and method for the manufacture of a strand of a pasty mass and extrusion head for such a device and method, respectively The invention relates to a device for the manufacture of a strand of a pasty mass, in particular sausage meat, with an extrusion head 2, comprising a device 27 for coextruding the pasty mass and a casing surrounding the pasty mass, a solidification dev... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6875100 | Threading device for tubular packagings Device for pulling the front end of a feed (4) of tubular packaging (casing) from the filling tube (2) of an apportioning filling machine for paste-like filling goods through the casing brake (5) and the closing device (11), having a pull... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6309293 | Method and vacuum filler for filling a pasty filling material A method and a vacuum filler for filling a pasty filling material, in particular sausage meat, with the sausage meat being filled into a vane-type conveying mechanism by means of rotatably supported vane cells and a negative pressure being produced in a r... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6113482 | Metal-detectable elastomeric material for piston seals and the like An elastomeric material for articles such as dynamic seals and the like is rendered detectable by conventional metal detectors through the incorporation of particles of a metallic alloy. Preferably, the resulting impregnated material contains at least 0.2... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6110033 | Apparatus for the filling of meat sausage An apparatus is described for the filling of pasty products, comprising a conveyor apparatus which can be charged via a funnel and associated filling stations, with the conveying apparatus comprising at least two individual conveying mechanisms arranged i... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5953984 | Food diminution and emulsification apparatus A meat diminution and emulsifying apparatus comprising a housing having a plurality of interconnected chambers for rotatably receiving feed screws and rotary cutter assemblies therein, said feed screws and cutter assemblies being sequentially arranged and... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5380172 | Peristaltic action precision pump filler A peristaltic action pump filler includes a frame for supporting an elongate fill tube. A carriage member is mounted to the frame for reciprocating translation therealong. The carriage member includes a pair of pivotably mounted and oppositely disposed ro... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5158498 | Filling machine for filling sleeves with coarse chunks of meat The invention relates to a filling machine for the filling of a hose-like sleeve, in particular of a gut with filling material in the form of large pieces of meat or ham, the machine comprising a supply vat with a discharge opening, a screw conveyor with ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5100363 | Apparatus for conducting a pasty mass under feed pressure through a tube The present invention solves the problem of clogging in the case of an apparatus for conducting a pasty mass, preferably sausage meat, under feed pressure through a tube, which carries said mass and the interior of which communicates via an annular groove... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5083507 | Device for pumping meat-containing products In a device for pumping meat-containing products, such as pieces of meat, meat paste and meat pulp (dough), it is aimed at avoiding problems of the meat forming bridges in a feed space, of meat remaining in the device during a too long time, of too much c... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5035671 | Dual piston portioner and casing device A dual piston device (10) for handling and casing of flowable materials such as whole muscle meat products is provided which eliminates the problem of tailing, or creation of a tail of meat product extending outwardly from a casing adjacent an endmost cli... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4974292 | Apparatus for handling packaging of emulsified meat products Improved apparatus (10) for the handling and packing of meat emulsion products is provided which eliminates the problem of "swirl" in such products, i.e., the undesirable appearance of red meat particles in a circular or spiral pattern. The apparatus (10)... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4539796 | Apparatus for manufacturing sausages or the like An apparatus for manufacturing sausages or the like comprises a stuffer tube for stuffing sausage dough into a casing, a pump for supplying the sausage dough into the stuffer tube, a casing pusher for propelling the casing, a chuck for receiving the stuff... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4516387 | Apparatus for stuffing large meat articles A multistage piston assembly is provided in apparatus for stuffing large meat articles in flexible tubular food casing. The piston assembly is mounted in longitudinally axial alignment with the article-loading chamber and stuffing horn and includes a firs... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4452380 | Portable apportioning apparatus Portable apportioning apparatus, readily attachable to a meat grinder or stuffer or similar product dispensing mechanism, including a product flow tube having an inlet and an outlet and an internal stop; a housing, defining a closed cavity, rotatingly eng... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4129923 | Continual sausage stuffing apparatus A sausage stuffing apparatus including a gripper apparatus for a sausage strand in which constricting forks are pivotable about their fastenings to movable chains. Provided on the gripper apparatus is at least one guide element for the pivotable guidance ... | 12/19/1978 |
| 4021885 | Method of and apparatus for making link sausages A strand of sausage filling is pushed stepwise through a tube over which is fitted an empty sausage casing such that as the strand emerges stepwise from the downstream end of the tube it fills the casing. The filled casing is gripped between a pair of con... | 05/10/1977 |