Butchering – Sausage making – Sausage link handling
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-09
2006-05-09
Poon, Peter M. (Department: 3643)
Butchering
Sausage making
Sausage link handling
C452S031000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07040975
ABSTRACT:
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 first and second ends and an associated width and length, along a selected travel path to a loading station; (b) straddling elongated product over each respective carrier member at the loading station so that portions of the elongated product are serially draped over the corner member along a length thereof, the straddling being carried out so that certain lengths of the elongated product hang from opposing sides of the carrier member; and (c) advancing the carrier members loaded with the straddled product downstream of the loading station.
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Chandler Lawrence Alan
Hawkins Richard Rodeheaver
Horvath, Jr. Frank Michael
Jones Larry
Phillips John Michael
ConAgra Foods Inc.
Myers Bigel & Sibley Sajovec, PA
Parsley David J.
Poon Peter M.
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