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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7648411 | Portion pack with a suspension loop and method and device for attaching it A suspension loop for a portion pack, consisting of a tubular sleeve, sealed on its ends by clips, in particular sausages, is attached to the end of a tubular sleeve drawn together to form a string of sausages by a twist knot formed from the suspension loop. The sus... | 01/19/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7182683 | Casingless food production methods, systems, and associated traveling matable mold shells Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) providing a series of shells, the shells having sufficient structural rigidity to define an enclosed cavity space of predetermined substantially constant size and shape;... | 02/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7066804 | Method and apparatus for loading different sized casings onto the stuffing tube of a sausage making machine A casing hopper for sausage encasing machines includes a hopper. The hopper is adjustable for different sized casings by a single control. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7040974 | Casingless food production methods, systems, and associated traveling matable mold shells Systems, methods, and associated devices for casingless production of food products include: (a) providing a series of shells, the shells having sufficient structural rigidity to define an enclosed cavity space of predetermined substantially constant size and shape;... | 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 |
| 7021028 | Process for the production of portion packs in a tubular film In a process for the production of portion packs of viscous to pasty filling material such as sausage meat, grease, putty or cement and the like in a tubular film (12) which is formed prior to introduction of the filling material (10) by welding or sea... | 04/04/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6981912 | Method and means for filling natural casing sausages A method for filling a natural hollow elongated casing with meat emulsion that involves placing a natural casing on an elongated meat emulsion stuffing tube and longitudinally pumping meat emulsion through the stuffing tube for expansive discharge into the natural c... | 01/03/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6325711 | Twister mechanism for a sausage making machine A twister mechanism for sausage encasing has a first housing member (12) having a center bore. A rotatable ring (22) has a center bore (26) concentric with the center bore of the housing. A rotatable sleeve (24) is mounted on the ring and forms the center... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6302776 | Casing lock mechanism for a sausage stuffing machine A casing lock mechanism, for a sausage stuffing machine, which reduces the risk of damage to a sausage casing during a sausage extruding operation. The casing lock mechanism includes a chuck member that holds a pair of jaws having jaw holes that surround ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6132302 | Device for filling casings as well as machine for filling sausage casings The invention concerns a device for filling casings for a machine for filling sausage casings, with a filling pipe (14) driveable and rotatable around its longitudinal axis (12), onto which pipe a casing (8) fillable through the filling pipe (14) is pulle... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6066035 | Automatic control for terminating the filling of a sausage casing, and method of use thereof An automatic control for terminating the filling of a sausage casing on a sausage casing machine has a sensor on the machine to detect when the rearward end of a telescopic casing is closely adjacent the discharge end of a meat stuffing tube. The sensor i... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6050888 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing chain-like food products such as sausages or the like An apparatus for manufacturing chain-like food products such as sausages or the like includes a stuffing nozzle over which a natural intestine is fitted and a pinching device for pinching and conveying a stuffed natural intestine in the forward direction ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5842914 | 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... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5788563 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing chain-like food products such as sausages or the like An apparatus for manufacturing chain-like food products such as sausages or the like includes a stuffing nozzle over which a natural intestine is fitted and a pinching device for pinching and conveying a stuffed natural intestine in the forward direction ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5480346 | Apparatus for manufacturing a chain of linked food products An apparatus for manufacturing a chain of linked sausages or the like includes a nozzle having a material-discharging end for discharging meat serving as a material; a material-supplying device for intermittently supplying a substantially fixed amount of ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5354228 | Apparatus and method for rotating a fragile extruded strand of meat product for linking purposes The apparatus for rotating the strand of meat product has an elongated barrel with a plurality of bores therein, with each bore having a tube rotatably mounted therein. An elongated strand of extruded meat product is inserted into one of the elongated tub... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5238444 | Apparatus for forming loops on a sausage sealing machine The invention relates to an apparatus for forming loops on a stuffed-casing-product sealing machine. For this purpose a loop former is provided which, in conjunction with a line guide and a deflector, forms loops, which can be subsequently tied and separa... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5238442 | Method and means for applying liquid to the interior of a casing on a sausage encasing machine A method for introducing liquid smoke or the like to the interior surface of a stuffed sausage made on a sausage stuffing machine involves placing a liquid on at least a portion of the exterior surface of a stuffing horn of such machine, placing an enclos... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5199921 | Chuck for meat encasing machines A chuck for a meat encasing machine has an elongated body having an inlet end and a discharge end. The body has an elongated hollow bore extending therethrough and an exterior cylindrical surface. A plurality of radially extending flutes are in the bore o... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5180327 | Apparatus for manufacturing sausages or the like Disclosed is an apparatus for manufacturing sausages or the like including a nozzle for stuffing a material such as a meat emulsion into a casing for sausages or the like, a pump for supplying the material into the nozzle, and a casing engaging member hav... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5147239 | Method and apparatus for making sausages In a method for making sausages, in which the sausage meat exiting from a filling machine is filled into a sausage skin pulled off a skin caterpillar to form a sausage rope and the rope is then divided into individual sausages by twisting it between every... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5145450 | Method and apparatus for separating a continuous string of sausage meat into individual sausages In a method and apparatus for making sausages in the form of a continuous string with subsequent separation thereof into individual sausages or into groups of interconnected sausages, means are provided for varying the separating operating in a simple man... | 09/08/1992 |
