| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE30791 |
Cantilevered belted bag loading apparatus |
November 10, 1981 |
| A multiplicity of relatively narrow spaced apart parallel arrayed endless conveyor belts cantilevered from a support frame in the direction of product movement at a bagging station moves individual product articles, one at a time, towards the cantilevered ends of the conveyor belt array. |
| RE30390 |
Stuffing apparatus |
September 2, 1980 |
| Apparatus and method for stuffing viscous food product into a shirred tubular casing article containing a casing diameter sizing means confined within an unshirred portion of one closed end, comprising means to stretch-size and snub the casing to a predetermined diameter as it is bei |
| RE30265 |
Presizing disc with self-locking means |
May 6, 1980 |
| A sizing disc for a shirred tubular casing length utilized in a stuffing apparatus said sizing disc including a rim portion, a wall support extending inwardly therefrom and terminating in a terminal end portion defining an annulus, and frangible self-locking elements disposed on said |
| 4649602 |
Stuffing method, apparatus and article for use therewith |
March 17, 1987 |
| A method and apparatus for stuffing food product into shirred casing wherein an internal sizing member and an external engaging member cooperate to provide casing presizing and casing holdback. A small relative motion between said sizing member and said engaging member controllably r |
| 4641687 |
Casing article |
February 10, 1987 |
| A shirred casing article includes a tubular member which supports shirred casing at one end and a plurality of flattening disks at the other. The casing contains volatile agent which is detrimental to the disks if exposed to the disks over time. A barrier, such as a bag or wrap, impe |
| 4608730 |
Disposable tension sleeve for a stuffing machine |
September 2, 1986 |
| A tension sleeve for a stuffing machine on which is predisposed a casing supply prior to connection of the tension sleeve to the stuffing machine. A sizing means is attached to the tension sleeve by a nosepiece. The nosepiece has a collar extending into a nesting relationship with the |
| 4551884 |
Method and apparatus for use in automatically and continuously making sausages with flat ends |
November 12, 1985 |
| Method and apparatus for automatically and continuously producing encased food product having a uniform diameter and flat ends. |
| 4550471 |
Shirred casing article |
November 5, 1985 |
| A method and apparatus for stuffing food product into shirred casing having an important application in the stuffing of large muscle groups such as whole boned hams. A demountable stuffing horn carries its own supply of shirred casing compressed in place at a high packing efficiency. Mea |
| 4521938 |
Casing sizing means, method and apparatus |
June 11, 1985 |
| An adjustable sizing means for food casing includes a tubular member having latch means at each end for mounting the tubular member to a stuffing apparatus. A forward portion of the tube contains a plurality of slits which extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tubular member. |
| 4516387 |
Apparatus for stuffing large meat articles |
May 14, 1985 |
| 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 first stage piston and a second stage |
| 4486939 |
Method and apparatus for attaching flexible membranes to a rigid backing |
December 11, 1984 |
| A method and apparatus for joining an end of a flexible membrane to a rigid backing. A sleeve is used which plants a portion of the membrane and a resilient member in a seat, preformed along an edge of the backing. A punch associated with the sleeve then forms the edge over the resilient |
| 4467499 |
Stuffing method and apparatus |
August 28, 1984 |
| A method and apparatus for stuffing food product into shirred casing having an important application in the stuffing of large muscle groups such as whole boned hams. A demountable stuffing horn carries its own supply of shirred casing compressed in place at a high packing efficiency. Mea |
| 4466984 |
Article for use in automatically and continuously making stuffed casing products with flat ends |
August 21, 1984 |
| Disclosed is an article including two or more flat discs arranged in associated pairs, the paired discs being introduced over a stuffing horn and into a casing during the stuffing operation to produce a stuffed casing product having two substantially flat ends. The discs of each pair |
| 4466464 |
Overwrapped disk pairs in a package article for automatically and continuously making sausages w |
August 21, 1984 |
| Package article useful in producing sausages having flat ends. The package article comprises a shirred casing having at least one unshirred portion and having disposed inside said unshirred portion at least two pairs of flattening annular disks with a central hole in each of said annular |
| 4466463 |
Disk pairs inside package article for automatically and continuously making sausages with flat e |
August 21, 1984 |
| Package article useful in producing sausages having flat ends. The package article comprises a shired casing having at least one unshirred portion and having disposed inside said unshirred portion at least two pairs of flattening annular disks with a central hole in each of said annular |
| 4438545 |
Stuffing method and apparatus |
March 27, 1984 |
| Method and apparatus for stuffing food product into shirred casing in which a stuffing machine designed to stuff fully soaked casing is adapted to the use of controllably premoisturized casing. An internal sizing ring stretches the casing to about its recommended stuffed circumference so |
| 4226003 |
Large casings stuffing product stoppering means |
October 7, 1980 |
| An emulsion flow shut off valve in apparatus for stuffing viscous food product into tubular flexible casings is interiorly recessed within the apparatus stuffing horn upstream of the stuffing horn discharge orifice a distance far enough to reestablish laminar flow of the product from |
| 4164057 |
Food casing stuffing sizing control method |
August 14, 1979 |
| An improved sizing control technique utilizes a pressure ring bearing slidably on the outer periphery of a food casing being stuffed, the casing being provided with a convoluting element working conjunctively with a sizing disc inside the casing to provide a wider than previously att |
| 4133076 |
Large casings stuffing product stoppering means |
January 9, 1979 |
| An emulsion flow shut off valve in apparatus for stuffing viscous food product into tubular flexible casings is interiorly recessed within the apparatus stuffing horn upstream of the stuffing horn discharge orifice a distance far enough to reestablish laminar flow of the product from |
| 4081096 |
Cantilevered belted bag loading method |
March 28, 1978 |
| A multiplicity of relatively narrow spaced apart parallel arrayed endless conveyor belts cantilevered from a support frame in the direction of product movement at a bagging station moves individual product articles, one at a time, towards the cantilevered ends of the conveyor belt array. |
| 4077090 |
Food casing stuffing sizing control apparatus |
March 7, 1978 |
| A pressure ring bearing slideably on the outer periphery of a food casing being stuffed has a casing convoluting element working conjunctively with a sizing disc inside the casing to provide a wider than previously attainable range of holdback force on the casing. |
| 4044426 |
Stuffing apparatus |
August 30, 1977 |
| Apparatus and method for stuffing viscous food product into a shirred tubular casing article contaning a casing diameter sizing means confined within an unshirred portion of one closed end, comprising means to stretch-size and snub the casing to a predetermined diameter as it is bein |
| 4034441 |
Presizing disc with self-locking means |
July 12, 1977 |
| A sizing disc for a shirred tubular casing length utilized in a stuffing apparatus said sizing disc including a rim portion, a wall support extending inwardly therefrom and terminating in a terminal end portion defining an annulus, and frangible self-locking elements disposed on said |
| 4023329 |
Poultry packaging apparatus |
May 17, 1977 |
| Poultry articles are advanced on an upwardly inclined conveyor one at a time through a wing and neck training jig mechanism which forms each such article into a packaging configuration, and, at the top of the upwardly inclined conveyor, tilted downwardly to advance by gravity into a |
| 3975795 |
Product stuffing apparatus and method |
August 24, 1976 |
| Apparatus and method for stuffing cold, viscous product into normally flexible film tubing such as shirred tubular plastic film, comprising a stuffing horn having secured to its discharge end a pleat dispersing collar, and inboard thereof a loosely fitted deshirring ring, which coact |
| 3942624 |
Cantilevered belted bag loading apparatus and method |
March 9, 1976 |
| A multiplicity of relatively narrow spaced apart parallel arrayed endless conveyor belts cantilevered from a support frame in the direction of product movement at a bagging station moves individual product articles, one at a time, towards the cantilevered ends of the conveyor belt array. |
