Patents Assigned to Brechteen Co.
  • Net rucker
    Patent number: 5273481
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for shirring food stuffing netting onto a net tube utilizing a net rucker head having a plurality of flexible paddles. A net rucker guides the food stuffing netting onto the net tube and reciprocates the net tube up and down through a passage in net rucker head such that the flexible paddles engage the netting to shirr it about the circumference of the net tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Brechteen Co.
    Inventor: Michael J. Sullivan
  • Gathering device for meat stuffing machine
    Patent number: 5156567
    Abstract: A gathering device for a stuffed meat product. Pneumatically controlled noose means intermittently close as the meat product passes therethrough. This closure compresses the meat product and gathers the wrapping materials so that the operator need only twist the product to prepare it for the clipping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Brechteen Co.
    Inventors: David L. Gammon, Michael J. Sullivan