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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7704131 | Apparatus for forming spaced intervals in a stuffed casing and method thereof A flexible, composite unitary belt for forming spaced intervals in a stuffed casing, and method therefore, the belt cooperating with another belt to pinch the stuffed casing. The belt comprises a body forming a continuous loop and having at least one embedded flexib... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7381123 | Apparatus and method for dividing a stuffed sausage skein An apparatus and a method for dividing a stuffed sausage skein, wherein a transport element pair is provided, including rotating opposite transport elements between which the stuffed sausage skein is conveyed in a transport direction and each of which include at lea... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7179161 | Method and apparatus for vertically stuffing casings with sausage emulsion A machine and method for encasing sausages by having a stuffing tube that is vertically disposed in order to allow gravity to help in the sausage making process. A conical shaped restricting device is attached to the stuffing tube to help facilitate the movement of ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7165670 | Food transport routing systems, devices, and guides for food processing systems and related methods Commercial production transport systems, mechanisms, and guides for food processing are configured so as to automate food transport. The system can direct food to travel serially over side-by-side predetermined travel lanes using one or more of a pick-up mechanism a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7131904 | Automated laterally offset retractable food dislodgement or guiding mechanisms and associated methods and systems Commercial production transport systems, mechanisms, and guides for food processing are configured so as to automate food handling and/or transport. The systems employ fingers that can be inserted to gap spaces in a carrier surface so as to dislodge, guide and/or ro... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7094141 | Method and apparatus for loading casings onto the stuffing tube of a sausage making machine A casing hopper for sausage encasing machines includes a hopper having a downwardly sloping bottom terminating in a downwardly extending fence wall. A chute wall is substantially vertically disposed in parallel spaced condition to the fence wall to form a substantia... | 08/22/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7048622 | Automated laterally offset retractable food dislodgement or guiding mechanisms and associated methods and systems Commercial production transport systems, mechanisms, and guides for food processing are configured so as to automate food handling and/or transport. The systems employ fingers that can be inserted to gap spaces in a carrier surface so as to dislodge, guide and/or ro... | 05/23/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7004307 | Food transport routing systems, devices, and guides for food processing systems and related methods Commercial production transport systems, mechanisms, and guides for food processing are configured so as to automate food transport. The system can direct food to travel serially over side-by-side predetermined travel lanes using one or more of a pick-up mechanism a... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6932688 | Apparatus for automatically stuffing food casing A clipping device is provided for closing stuffed food casing with a clip and an apparatus is provided for causing a taped, holding string loops, to be directed toward the clipping device for closing an end of the food casing so that a string loop is transferred dir... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6932689 | Apparatus for severing the link between two sausages In an apparatus for severing a link between two sausages, in particular for cutting out a clip at a twisting point by means of a cutting device which has a cutting edge, comprises at least two cutting edges lying opposite one another and movable toward one another w... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6572465 | Method of and apparatus for processing ends of a chain of natural intestine sausages An apparatus for processing ends of a chain of natural intestine sausages which is used together with a suspending device for suspending and transporting a chain of natural intestine sausages includes: a heating device having a liquid tank in which a heat... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6482079 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing foodstuffs such as sausages An apparatus for manufacturing foodstuffs such as sausages includes: a stuffed-casing forming and rotating device for forming a stuffed casing by discharging meat emulsion or ground meat as a stuffing material into an unstuffed casing formed of a natural ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6468144 | Sausage link forming machine A sausage link forming machine having a rotating frame secured on a drivable axle and wherein the frame has opposed parallel discs. Control cams are secured to the axle intermediate the discs. A plurality of sausage grasping head assemblies are secured be... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6439990 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing chain-like food products such as sausages or the like An apparatus (1) for manufacturing sausages as chain-like food products is comprised of: a stuffing nozzle (5) over which an unstuffed natural intestine casing (2) is fitted and which is adapted to continuously discharge a fixed amount of meat (M) as a st... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6283846 | Method and means for making sausages An apparatus for applying liquid smoke to the outer surface of an extruded sausage strand has a frame with an elongated stationary outer tube thereon. A rotatable tube is concentrically mounted within the outer tube. Power components are on the frame for ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6217436 | Method and closing device for producing sausage-like products Method and closing device for producing sausage-like products with a flexible tubular or pouch-like wrapper, wherein the various stages of the closing process include constriction of the wrapper, elongation of the braid, setting and closure of the clamp f... | 04/17/2001 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6045445 | Device and a method of separating sausages A separation device for separating sausages at separation points, comprising at least one first separation element and one second separation element, which are driven so as to circulate in opposite directions on circular paths in such a way that, when cir... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5993307 | Dual machines for making sausages at a single sausage making station A meat encasing machine has a meat emulsion pump in communication with a stuffing tube which terminates in a twister housing adjacent a linker. A stuffing tube with power means associated with the twister housing rotates a strand of sausage extruded from ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5971842 | Meat emulsion pump control system for meat encasing machine, and method of use thereof A meat encasing machine has a looper horn, linking chain and conveyor which, prior to production, have home positions which are determined. A pulsed signal is generated as the looper horn rotates and is transmitted to an amplifier from an encoder on the s... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5951391 | Method and means for linking sausage A sausage making machine (10) has a meat pump, (22), a twister with a chuck 30 to rotate a strand of sausage, a linker (32) to create links in the strand of sausage, a conveyor (38) with movable hooks to grasp loops in the sausage strand. Four separate mo... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5921857 | Meat emulsion pump control system for meat encasing machine, and method of use thereof A meat encasing machine has a looper horn, linking chain and conveyor which, prior to production, have home positions which are determined. A pulsed signal is generated as the looper horn rotates and is transmitted to an amplifier from an encoder on the s... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5830051 | Apparatus for manfacturing sausages or the like having desired link length An apparatus 1 for manufacturing sausages or the like includes: a rotating device 5 for rotating a stuffed casing 3 about its longitudinal axis in an R direction; a plurality of nipping devices 7 for nipping the stuffed casing 3 from the rotating device 5... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5775985 | Zero time clipper A method for stuffing food product into a tubular food casing at a predetermined linear rate of movement of stuffed food product, closing the stuffed food product to segregate the stuffed food product into links while the stuffed food product continues to... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5709600 | Method and means for linking and then separating encased sausage A linking and link cutting assembly for sausage encasing machines has a pair of endless linking chains having portions which are parallel and which are laterally spaced. They carry spaced pinching blocks which register during the parallel movement, and pi... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5618229 | Machine to transform a filled sausage casing into a twisted sausage casing, in particular for producing sausage portions The machine of the invention comprises downstream a squeezing device defining portions (P), successive pairs of first and second plates (1), 1') disposed parallel inside which the portions (P) are engaged. The first and second plates (1, 1') of each pair ... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5425667 | Method, magazine strip and apparatus for attaching bendable clips to an object A process, a storage line and a device for applying U-shaped bending staples (17) to an object (6) to be bound are disclosed. The staples are produced and stored as straight little rods (4). They are coded and if necessary bent into the U-shape by means o... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5405288 | Devices for gathering and clipping tubular food casings and food stuffing machines equipped therewith End-closures are formed on tubular food casings by means of a self-contained gathering and closing device comprising dual shutter assemblies with angular levers having thumb and finger extensions which are pivotally mounted from their respective thumb ext... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5279516 | Apparatus and method for linking an elongated extruded meat product Three parallel auger shafts having identical flighting thereon disposed on axes equally spaced from each other to provide a central axis equidistant from the axes of the augers. An elongated strand of extruded meat product is moved through the central axi... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5238443 | End closures for shirred casing sticks and method and apparatus for making them An end closure for a shirred casing stick is formed by compacting an inturned portion of the casing within the stick bore. During compaction a portion of the end closure is formed by pressing directly against the stick bore while an opposite portion is fo... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5221228 | Device for forming the suspension loop of a sausage with a string-holding reel with heads provided with vertices in a machine for tying sausage A device automatically forms a suspension loop of sausage at preprogrammable intervals in a machine for automatically tying, by string with a knot, meat stuffed in a casing. The machine has an orifice through which a stuffed casing passes, jaws for grippi... | 06/22/1993 |
