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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7309228 | Hydraulic pump system for a patty-forming apparatus An improved hydraulic system is provided for a reciprocating mold plate, patty-forming apparatus wherein food product is delivered under pressure from a pump cylinder to mold plate cavities. The plunger is driven during a first phase by force from a hydraulic cylind... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7029261 | Automatic cover latch and pressure relief system for a dough divider A dough divider including a hopper with a lid, latch assembly and press plate. The lid has an open and closed position. The latch assembly is adapted to maintain the lid in the closed position when activated and to discontinue maintaining the lid in the closed posit... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 5014882 | Pivot-action portioning apparatus and method A volumetric apparatus for portioning fluidic material into fractions of predetermined size includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet, and a piston movable in the housing and defining a product portioning chamber and a compression chamber. Fluidic ... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4885822 | Food compressor A food compressor for compressing a composite food mixture into portions which are suitable for cooking. The compressor comprises an elongate open ended chamber which has a shaping device attachable to one end thereof. The shaping device has an opening of... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4797973 | Bagging and apportioning machine for sausages and various bagged products The machine comprises a device for feeding the product to be bagged under constant pressure toward an outlet orifice, a filling spout and a cutoff valve placed between said outlet orifice and said filling spout. The cutoff valve is periodically moved to t... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4712274 | Sausage stuffer An elongated cylinder having a piston therein which is operable by water under pressure with means to control the water input and valving means in a header to control the sausage meat entering the stuffing tube.... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4691411 | Method and apparatus for feeding meat There is provided a method and apparatus for feeding meat, in which at least two reciprocating pumps (4L and 4R or A, B and C) are used in order to suck meat alternately into the feed cylinders (6L and 6R) of the reciprocating pumps and deliver it alterna... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4617701 | Method of dispensing a deformable and flowable filling material A method of dispensing pasty material, in particular sausage meat, is described in which the filled material is first introduced into a filling funnel, is preferably de-aerated, and is subsequently transferred into a filling cylinder, with the transfer be... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4587689 | Meat packing apparatus A meat packing apparatus for connecting a shirred casing to a nozzle and stuffing the casing with meat extruded from the nozzle includes shirred casing delivery means for connecting the shirred casing to the nozzle and for deshirring a portion of the casi... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4565054 | Meat packaging apparatus A meat packaging apparatus comprises a horn having an inlet thereto intermediate the ends thereof. A knife is located adjacent the inlet for severing meat locating partly in the horn, and a ram locates normally in the rearward part of the horn for extrudi... | 01/21/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4557018 | Meat former apparatus An improved apparatus and process is disclosed which is adopted for controlled displacement of chunk, sectioned and formed meat products during a forced meat encasement process. More particularly, the improved apparatus and method of the instant invention... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4534084 | Meat stuffing apparatus An improved apparatus and arrangement is disclosed which is adopted for the automatic encasement of chunk, sectioned and formed meat products. More particularly, the improved apparatus and arrangement of the instant invention provides for automatically st... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4376327 | Water powered sausage stuffer A horizontally positioned sausage stuffer having an elongated, cylindrical hopper, a removable outlet opening having an elongated, rigid, plastic tube extending therefrom, including a piston in the hopper actuated by water pressure from a city or town wat... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4191309 | Product portioning in the continuous pumping of plastic materials A viscous products pumping machine meters the volume of product that it dispenses by simultaneously displacing a proportionate amount of fluid through a separate metering circuit. The fluid of the metering circuit also serves as the medium for driving the... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4188767 | Apparatus for portioning and encasing meat products This invention relates to an apparatus for automatically providing a predetermined portion of a meat product in a casing, and for automatically closing and clamping closed the open end of the casing. The apparatus includes a portioning piston and cylinder... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4150521 | Packaging apparatus A packaging apparatus for enveloping an article in a sleeve-type package includes a rigid elongate tube of U-shape and, in use, substantially horizontally oriented with one end secured to a table-top mountable support, the member being otherwise free-stan... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4097962 | Machine for continuous pumping of plastic materials A compact, yet easy-to-clean machine has a pair of pumping plungers that reciprocate alternately to force plastic materials, such as food products, out of their respective pump chambers and into a common delivery conduit, thereby effecting substantially c... | 07/04/1978 |
| 3945082 | Sausage stuffing machine A sausage stuffing machine positions a portable, cylindrical sausage meat container on a base which supports a pneumatic piston and cylinder assembly in elevated relation above said container, the piston rod of the piston and cylinder assembly having a se... | 03/23/1976 |
