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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7377842 | Automated extraction of casing clips from cooked meat products A method apparatus for removing a casing, particularly a casing with a clip end embedded in the product, is disclosed where the clipped end is clamped and gas is injected into this end to blow out the clip and casing end while the clamped portion prevents the entire... | 05/27/2008 |
| 6656031 | Method and an apparatus for removing the skin from a sausage A method of removing the skin (7) from a sausage (1) comprises a plurality of steps. First, an end portion (2) of the sausage (1) is cut off, whereafter the skin (7) is grasped by gripping means (3) in diametrically opposed positions. Thereafter, an incis... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6582290 | Device and method for detaching coating skins from processed meat products The present invention relates to a device and a method for detaching a fibrous casing from the surface of a cured processed meat product, preferably a sausage, especially when the outer surface of the fibrous casing has been provided with a substantially ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6468143 | Automated pepperoni casing end-cutting and stripping station An end-cutting and stripping station for removing casings from sausages is disclosed. The station comprises a carousel having end-cutting units spaced around its perimeter. The carousel is connected to a conveyor, each unit receiving a sausage as the conv... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6354931 | Apparatus and method for ballooning cooked meat sticks An apparatus and method for ballooning and peeling the casing of a cooked meat stick such as cured pepperoni. Prior to peeling the casing from the meat stick, a needle pierces the casing and air is then injected through the needle and between the casing a... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6080055 | Method and apparatus for stripping casings from sausages A method and apparatus is provided for removing casings (15a) from elongated casing enclosed sausage sticks (15). An indexing conveyor (22) receives the casing-enclosed sausage sticks (15). An inflating mechanism is provided for inflating the casing-enclo... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6059647 | Method for removing a casing from a food stuffed in the casing, and an apparatus therefor A method and apparatus for removing a tubular casing made of a flexible sheet from a food stuffed in the casing are disclosed. The casing is sealed at an opening portion thereof with a sealing means. The method includes stripping one end portion of the ca... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6045441 | Method and apparatus for peeling sausage An apparatus and method for removing casing from a body of a sausage includes an infeed mechanism to provide forward movement of the body of the sausage along a feed path, with the tuft of the sausage leading the body of the sausage. A cutting device is o... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5928073 | Method and apparatus for removing the skin casing from a sausage A method of removing the skin casing from a sausage by slitting the sausage (2) in its one end region comprises the steps that a flap of the skin casing is gripped by a gripper (15) in the immediate proximity of the slit. The gripped flap is displaced in ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5649858 | Apparatus for slitting casing surfaces and peeling the casings from a chain of sausages and the like A quick assembly/disassembly apparatus for splitting casing surfaces and peeling the cases from a string of sausages or the like which includes a trackway along which the sausage chain moves and driving discs that engage the casing covered chain of sausag... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5643071 | Apparatus for collecting sausage casings An apparatus for collecting sausage casings or the like from a peeling station which utilizes selectively operable storage tanks for receiving the peeled casings from the peeling station connected to the peeling station by conduits through which moved pee... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5449318 | Regenerated food casing having food release properties due to an internal surface comprising viscose with PEG A cellulose food casing which can be peeled from food product contained therein without damaging said food product, said food casing having an internal surface composition comprising regenerated viscose containing polyalkylene glycol having a molecular we... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5295895 | Method and apparatus for skinning encased frankfurters and the like Apparatus for skinning the casing from a chain of encased frankfurters. The apparatus has a plurality of carrier wheels which conveys the frankfurter chain in a sinuous path to provide at least a pair of stressing stations where the casing is stressed fir... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5246395 | Method and means for removing casings from sausages An apparatus for removing casings from sausages having a frame, and a conduit extending within the frame through which a string of linked sausages are longitudinally moved. A knife means is pivotally mounted in the longitudinal path of the linked sausages... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5184541 | Steam evacuation unit for a peeler A unit for being positioned between an outlet conveyor and an inlet conveyor having a steam source coupled thereto. The unit includes a body machined out of metal or the like. The body has a passageway with an inlet end for being coupled to the outlet por... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5094649 | Apparatus for peeling sausages An apparatus for removing the skins or casings from sausage products includes an abrasion means suitably in the form of a pair of counter rotating, rough surfaced rollers through which the sausages pass after the casings have been slit longitudinally, to ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 4773203 | Apparatus and process for stripping a net from meat An apparatus and method for stripping a meat net from a process meat product. The apparatus includes a base which is adapted to support at least one inner tube and one outer tube, with the inner tube including a container for secondarily processed meat go... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4682387 | Apparatus and method for stripping casing from sausages An apparatus and method for stripping the casing from casing enclosed sausage sticks includes an indexing device which moves sausages in an arcuate path during which the front end of the sausage stick is severed. The sausage sticks are then moved horizont... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4649962 | Hollow tubular sheathing for sausages, and process of manufacture A bellows-like hollow member formed of gathered tubular sheathing material, for processing, especially as a peel-skin for the production of small sausages, produced as follows: polypropylene with copolymers is extruded in a smooth foil of three inseparabl... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4637095 | Method and apparatus for peeling sausage A method and apparatus for removing the skin or casing of a sausage involves feeding the sausage through skewed feed rollers to cause the body to move both longitudinally and rotationally, cutting the casing on a nose portion of the sausage, positively gr... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4414707 | Sausage casing removal apparatus An apparatus for removing the casing from sausages is improved by modifying the product loading horn with a structure that brings about venturi effects whereby fluid for conditioning the casing is impelled through the product loading horn and contacts the... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4371554 | Method of making skinless sausage using reusable porous polytetrafluoroethylene casing A reusable tubular casing is made of porous polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane for the production of caseless (skinless) parboil or raw sausages. The membrane has a microstructure comprising PTFE nodes connected by PTFE fibrils with a porosity of abo... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4222150 | Sausage peeling apparatus Apparatus for peeling sausages comprises means for feeding a chain of sausages in the longitudinal direction of the chain towards a pair of counterrotating rollers defining between them a roller nip located in the plane of symmetry between the rollers. Th... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4138767 | Apparatus for decasing food links An improved apparatus for decasing food links comprising an accelerator assembly imparting initial feedthrough velocity, a preconditioner that heats the casings to facilitate removal, a casing slitter assembly, a casing drive assembly, and a stripping hea... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4124919 | Casing transport apparatus An apparatus for use in transporting peeled frankfurter casings or the like from a typical frankfurter peeling device or the like to a station such as a garbage dump or the like where the casings are to be finally deposited. A vacuum source creates a vacu... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4118828 | Apparatus for peeling sausages Apparatus for peeling casings from a string of sausages comprises roller means for driving that string of sausages past a knife assembly disposed to form a longitudinal slit in the casings, means are disposed downstream of the knife assembly for directing... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4024602 | Apparatus for decasing food links An improved apparatus for decasing food links comprising an accelerator assembly imparting initial feedthrough velocity, a preconditioner that heats the casings to facilitate removal, a casing slitter assembly, a casing drive assembly, and a stripping hea... | 05/24/1977 |
