Foods and beverages: apparatus – Subjecting food to an enclosed modified atmosphere – Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure
Patent
1976-11-29
1979-01-30
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Subjecting food to an enclosed modified atmosphere
Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure
99335, 99352, 99443C, 99484, 198750, 198773, 212 11, A23B 404
Patent
active
041366085
ABSTRACT:
An elongated meat processing system including an improved lifting mechanism for lifting products from a conveyor during conveyance through a treatment zone defined by a housing of the system so as to control the rate of advancement of the products and the time the products are present in the treatment zone. The system preferably includes a plurality of the conveyors arranged in a vertically spaced relationship with each of these conveyors being of a reciprocating type including a pair of laterally spaced reciprocating beams that carry product sticks on which the products are hung. The lifting mechanism includes laterally spaced lifters along the length of the system for lifting the products after forward reciprocation of the conveyor beams so the products are suspended and do not move rearwardly during subsequent rearward beam reciprocation. Prior to a subsequent forward reciprocation, the lifters return the products to the beams to provide product advancement. Elongated control members are pivotally supported along their lengths extending laterally between the laterally spaced lifters to provide coordination of the lifters. Actuators located at one side of the conveyors pivot the control members to operate the lifters.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2138886 (1938-12-01), Schramm
patent: 3115818 (1963-12-01), Smith
patent: 3747510 (1973-07-01), Gladd
Gladd Andrew J.
Gladd, Jr. Andrew
MacKay Ralph J.
Gladd Industries, Inc.
Hornsby Harvey C.
Simone Timothy F.
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