161 patents
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Utility
Vacuum extraction and sealing of containers
14 Sep 21
A system for evacuating and sealing containers filled with product, for example, food product, includes an enclosed, sealed housing wherein the pressure level and the atmospheric content can be controlled.
Peter Roy Scott, Mark Emond
Filed: 6 Dec 18
Utility
Water jet coil-to-hose connector guide
14 Sep 21
A fluid delivery/connector system (26) includes a high pressure tubular coil (30) connected to the upper end of a flexible hose (32) by an interface connector assembly (34) which is movable in the up-and-down directions to accommodate the movement of the lower end of the flexible hose which is connected to the nozzle assembly (22) of a fluid cutter system (20).
Harrison T. Gill
Filed: 28 Sep 18
Utility
Impingement oven
14 Sep 21
An impingement oven (40) includes an upper housing structure (46) forming the exterior of the upper half of the impingement oven and a lower housing structure (48) to mate with the upper housing structure.
Owen Eugene Morey, Ramesh M. Gunawardena, Brian P. Westcott, Scott M. Kane, John D. Woodburn, Scott E. Stang
Filed: 23 Sep 16
Utility
Systems with external heat-seal assembly height adjustment control and related seal assemblies
7 Sep 21
Packaging apparatus for producing encased products from flat-roll stock using an external user interface (i.e., a handle that is external to a housing holding the heat seal assembly that is attached to a horizontally oriented shaft that rotates a first gear in the housing to rotate an aligned second gear in the housing or an electronic control) that is attached to and/or in communication with (directly or indirectly) a heat-seal assembly with a heat-seal contact member, such as a heat-seal band, in the housing to allow a user to adjust a vertical height of the heat-seal assembly while the apparatus is operational and/or without requiring physical access to the interior of the housing.
Samuel D. Griggs, Dennis J. May, Derek L. Brown, William M. Poteat
Filed: 11 Feb 19
Utility
Keel strip removal apparatus and method
31 Aug 21
An apparatus and method to remove a keel strip that is centrally attached to a poultry butterfly.
Kirk Reis, Stephen Cribb, Barry Jones
Filed: 31 Mar 20
Utility
Conveyor belt blower
3 Aug 21
A conveyor belt blower for a conveyor belt having an infeed portion and a return portion having a width includes a pressure distribution assembly located between the infeed portion and the return portion, a plenum body having first and second ends, wherein the plenum body extends across at least a portion of the width of the return portion, a nozzle assembly having at least one opening extending along a length of the plenum body that is configured to direct air onto the return portion, and an air movement device in communication with the first end of the plenum body for flowing air into the plenum body.
Bo Richard Jimmy Carlsson, Jonas Christopher Fogelqvist, Lars Johan Siljeborn
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Trimming Work Products to Optimize Pressing
29 Jul 21
A system 10 for analyzing and trimming irregularly shaped food products which are to be subsequently pressed into a three-dimensional shape (volume) and optionally thereafter sliced or otherwise portioned so as to achieve an optimum harvest, includes a conveyor 12 for carrying the workpieces (WP) to be trimmed past a scanning system 14 for scanning the workpiece (WP) to ascertain the physical characteristics of the workpiece (WP), including, for example, its three-dimensional shape, as well as its position on the conveyor 12, and then past a cutting station 26 for trimming the workpiece (WP) into a desired two-dimensional shape which represents an optimum shape for the workpiece for pressing the workpiece into a desired three-dimensional shape having at least one fixed or specified dimension or other physical specification.
George R. Blaine
Filed: 26 Jan 21
Utility
Packaging Systems with Clipper Trigger and Reset Cam Assemblies Each Comprising a Plurality of Cams and Related Cam Assemblies
8 Jul 21
Packaging systems with a rotatable table top held by a rotatable column, a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart clipper assemblies held at respective clipper stations provided by the rotatable table top, plurality of spaced apart pneumatic valves under the table top in fluid communication with the clipper assemblies, and at least one of: (a) a clipper reset cam assembly held under the rotatable table top with first and second reset cams cam that selectively automatically engage the pneumatic valves as the table rotates; and (b) a clipper trigger cam assembly held under the rotatable table top circumferentially spaced apart from the clipper reset cam assembly with first and second trigger cams that selectively automatically engage the pneumatic valves as the table rotates.
Dennis J. May, Samuel D. Griggs, William M. Poteat, Matthew D. Lowder
Filed: 11 Jan 21
Utility
High Frequency Device for Heating Food Product, and Associated Systems and Methods
17 Jun 21
In an embodiment, an apparatus for heat treatment of food product by radio frequency (RF) includes a transmission line having: a center conductor that includes a stack of food product packages, and an outer shield that at least partially encloses the center conductor.
Richard R. Brounley
Filed: 17 Dec 19
Utility
Temperature treatment apparatus and method for solidifying portions of fluid
8 Jun 21
The present invention relates to a temperature treatment apparatus (1) for solidifying portions of fluid.
Mathias Folkesson, Stefan Paulsson
Filed: 12 Jun 15
Utility
Macerator having automated roller spacing control
25 May 21
The present invention is a processing device, such as a macerator for use in processing various types of food products, that includes an automatic adjustment mechanism for adjusting the position of a roller disposed within the macerator.
Ralf Ludwig, Richard Timperio
Filed: 30 Nov 17
Utility
Spiral conveyor drive control and lubrication
18 May 21
The bottom tier (24) of a conveyor belt (22) arranged in a spiral stack (26) is supported by and driven by inner and outer drive chains (28) and (30).
Jack Peter Urban Wilthorn, Ulf Göran Gramby, Bengt Anders Gerhard Bengtsson, Per Martin Ström
Filed: 31 Oct 19
Utility
Spiral Conveyor Drive Control and Lubrication
6 May 21
The bottom tier (24) of a conveyor belt (22) arranged in a spiral stack (26) is supported by and driven by inner and outer drive chains (28) and (30).
Jack Peter Urban Wilthorn, Ulf Göran Gramby, Bengt Anders Gerhard Bengtsson, Per Martin Ström
Filed: 31 Oct 19
Utility
Air Balance Tunnel for Spiral Conveyor
29 Apr 21
A thermal processing apparatus (20) includes a spiral conveyor system (22) configured into an ascending spiral stack (26).
Kenny Tobias Norén, Nedjada Ribic, Patrik Torbjörn Dalhult, Lars Johan Siljeborn
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Conveyor Belt Blower
29 Apr 21
A conveyor belt blower for a conveyor belt having an infeed portion and a return portion having a width includes a pressure distribution assembly located between the infeed portion and the return portion, a plenum body having first and second ends, wherein the plenum body extends across at least a portion of the width of the return portion, a nozzle assembly having at least one opening extending along a length of the plenum body that is configured to direct air onto the return portion, and an air movement device in communication with the first end of the plenum body for flowing air into the plenum body.
Bo Richard Jimmy Carlsson, Jonas Christopher Fogelqvist, Lars Johan Siljeborn
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Spiral Conveyor Mezzanine Seal
29 Apr 21
A thermal processing apparatus (20) includes a spiral conveyor system (22) configured into an ascending spiral stack (26).
Kenny Tobias Norén, Anders Rickard Schön, Nils Anton Persson
Filed: 24 Oct 19
Utility
Hardened components in a conveyor drive system
13 Apr 21
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a drive chain system (22, 24) for a spiral conveyor belt (34) includes inner (52) and outer (62) drive chains driving the spiral conveyor belt, the inner and outer drive chains each including a plurality of links (70) defined by a plurality of first (72) and second (74) pitches connected by linking pins (84, 86) extending through holes (80, 82) in the pitches, wherein at least a portion of the linking pins of at least one of the inner and outer drive chains are hardened and/or dissimilar linking pins which are harder on an outer surface than other components in the inner and outer drive chains.
Scott E. Stang, Owen Eugene Morey
Filed: 30 Aug 19
Utility
Hygienic drum drive for spiral conveyor
6 Apr 21
Drive drum bars (54) are mounted on the drive drum frame (52) of a drive drum tower (50).
Brian P. Westcott, Adam J. Ramsdell
Filed: 14 Apr 20
Utility
Cutting devices for packaging systems with clippers and related clipper assemblies
6 Apr 21
Clipper assemblies include a clipper body with a die support holding at least one clip die; and a knife cylinder with a downwardly extending rod, the knife cylinder attached to the clipper body above the clip die.
Dennis J. May, Matthew D. Lowder, Andrew Hart
Filed: 10 Aug 16
Utility
Pork Belly Trimming
1 Apr 21
George R. Blaine
Filed: 10 Dec 20