Patents Assigned to Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OF FEED MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20160121333
    Abstract: A device and a method for processing feed material that has a housing, a material supply channel and a material discharge. The housing is axially divided into a first processing zone in which a rotor rotating around an axis is situated, and a second processing zone which adjoins the first processing zone in the flow direction of the feed material. In order to perform different processing procedures in one device the feed material is subject to a process gas by arranging a hollow body in the housing, coaxially to the axis for the formation of the second processing zone, which outer circumference is radially situated opposite the inner circumference of the housing, and which features at least one port at the end that is facing the rotor. A process gas, which can be fed to the feed material through at least one port, is applied to the hollow body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: PALLMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut PALLMANN
  • Method and device for adjusting the compression in a vane cell pump
    Patent number: 9282754
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the compression in the vane cell chambers in the compression region of a vane cell pump for conveying pasty substance, in particular sausage meat, and a corresponding vane cell pump, wherein the compression is adjusted by changing the guide of the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Martin Staudenrausch
  • DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATION OF PROCESS FEED MATERIAL WITH UPSTREAM SIFTING
    Publication number: 20160059239
    Abstract: A device for the comminution of free-flowing feed material is provided that includes a housing enclosing a comminution chamber which contains a rotor that rotates around an axis, and has comminution tools over its circumference. A feeding device to transport the feed material to the comminution chamber in form of a gas-solid matter mixture, wherein the feeding device features a pneumatic sieve passage which uses the effect of gravity for removal of foreign particles from the feed material. In order to operate both the sieve passage and the device under optimal process parameters, the device features at least one inlet port for the supply of secondary air, wherein the at least one inlet port flows into the gas-solid matter mixture downstream of the sieve passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: PALLMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut PALLMANN
  • Brake ring
    Patent number: 9185917
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for the manufacture of sausages. In one example, a method for manufacturing sausages with a filling machine comprises ejecting a mass through a filling tube into a sausage casing ruffled on the filling tube, and exerting a brake force on the sausage casing via a sausage casing brake on a braking area of a brake ring pressing onto the sausage casing, wherein the braking area extends around a longitudinal axis of the filling tube such that the braking area presses onto a part, and not the entirety, of a circumference of the sausage casing in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and wherein the brake force is distributed in a direction along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Juergen Flach, Michael Hammerer, Wolfgang Pfender, Gerhard Schliesser, Siegfried Reutter, Juergen Rechsteiner
  • Method of welding a wear layer onto a parent material using a plurality of flux-cored wire electrodes, metal powder and welding powder
    Patent number: 9162305
    Abstract: A method of welding a wear layer onto a parent material, wherein a welding current is applied to a first wire electrode and to at least one second wire electrode. The first wire electrode and at least one second wire electrode are continuously fed to the parent material for producing a common weld pool. Metal powder and welding powder are fed to the weld pool. The wire electrodes are flux-cored wire electrodes, having a core and a covered electrode. The flux-cored wire electrodes have a higher alloy than a weld deposit analysis of the wear layer to be welded on the parent material. The covered electrode of the flux-cored wire electrodes includes an alloy, which has magnetization properties suitable for adhesion of the metal powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Gustav Wiegard Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Brass, René Scholz
  • Device and method of manufacturing and filling up fine sausage meat, in particular an emulsion
    Patent number: 9095148
    Abstract: A device and a method of manufacturing and filling up product in the form of fine sausage meat, in particular an emulsion, with a feed means for the product, a feed pump for transporting the product, at least one downstream fine mincer as well as a filling and/or portioning means arranged downstream of the fine mincer for filling up the produced fine sausage meat or the emulsion, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Braig, Manfred Baechtle, Siegfried Reutter, Gerhard Mueller
  • Method and device for portioning a sausage string generated by a filling machine
    Patent number: 9044031
    Abstract: A method and a device for portioning a sausage string generated by a filling machine into individual sausage portions, having the following steps: transportation of the sausage string in the direction of transport, portioning the filled sausage string by means of opposing portioning elements, which engage in the sausage string, wherein the movement of the portioning elements is controlled, in each case, along a freely adjustable track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Manfred Baechtle
  • Filling machine
    Patent number: 9017151
    Abstract: A filling machine for sausages, having a filling tube and a unit for removing a filling material plait exiting the filling tube end during a filling process interruption, where the removing unit includes a separator element by means of which the filling material plait can be removed when a relative movement is executed between the filling tube end and the separator element, the separator element including at least one filling material adhesion surface to which filling material is transferable and adherable, and the adhesion surface has associated therewith a cleaning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Schliesser, Andreas Betz, Manfred Baechtle, Florian Osswald, Robert Winghart
  • Method and device for separating products
    Patent number: 8997614
    Abstract: A method and a device for separating food products, including to permit a straight cut at high cycle rates, the food product is conveyed by a conveying device in the direction of transport. The food product is cut through, where a cutting element is moved in the direction of transport and transverse to the direction of transport, wherein the motion of the cutting element transverse to the direction of transport is controlled independently of its motion in the direction of transport and the food product does not rest on the cutting area on the conveying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Wolfgang Braig, Siegfried Reutter, Bernd Romer, Klaus Schmid, Daniel Teufel
  • Tool unit and cutting or punching tool for a comminution device, and a device equipped therewith
    Patent number: 8967515
    Abstract: A tool unit for a comminution device with a rotor-stator system is provided, in which comminution tools are detachably fastened to tool holders on a rotor circumference and work together with comminution tools located on the stator. In order to shorten the tool replacement downtimes of a device equipped with such a tool unit and to increase its profitability, the tool holder includes a first carrier section and a second carrier section, the rear sides of which sections detachably contact one another in a common contact plane, and on each of the mutually averted front sides of which is located at least one bearing surface for accommodating a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
  • Method for filling sausages with a paste-like substance and filling machine for performing this method
    Patent number: 8944895
    Abstract: A method for filling sausages with a paste-like substance by means of a filling machine and to a filling machine for performing this method, including a sensor unit capable of determining at least one parameter that varies differently for different paste-like substances as a function of time. Depending on the at least one determined parameter, a controller determines whether a measure to be implemented on one or more wearing parts is necessary, the wearing parts wearing out at different times depending on the different paste-like substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernd Maile
  • Food machine, in particular machine for processing and producing sausage, and method of operating the same
    Patent number: 8899117
    Abstract: A food machine, in particular a machine for processing and producing sausage, with a step, and a corresponding method, wherein the food machine includes a safety device for detecting whether a person is standing on the step when the step is in a projecting step-on position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernd Maile
  • Method and apparatus for suspending sausages
    Patent number: 8894473
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for suspending sausages, where sausages are taken up by suspension hooks moving on a circulation path and are conveyed, suspended from the suspension hooks, in a conveying direction into a removal area. At least a part of the suspension hooks is controllable independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Manfred Bächtle
  • Apparatus and Method for Determining at Least One Parameter of a Produced Sausage
    Publication number: 20140333938
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for determining at least one parameter relating to the shape of the sausage, which is transported on a transport device, in particular between two circulating means of transport. A measuring device has at least one distance sensor, which is disposed in such a way that said sensor can detect a distance c to a sausage that is being transported. Furthermore, an evaluation device is provided, which determines at least one parameter relating to the sausage as a function of the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Fischer
  • CONNECTOR BETWEEN TWO APPARATUSES FOR FOOD PRODUCTION
    Publication number: 20140333402
    Abstract: A connector for data transmission at an interface between two apparatuses for food production, such as meat and sausage production, having a first connecting element connected to the first apparatus and being at least one first data transmission part, a second connecting element connected to the second apparatus and being at least one second data transmission part, the first data transmission part being galvanically isolated from the second data transmission part such that data transmission from the first connecting element to the second connecting element is effected in a galvanically isolated manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schrader, Lothar Miller
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD
    Publication number: 20140335788
    Abstract: A method for the transmission of process data between different devices that are involved in a process for the production of food, in particular devices involved in a filling line, wherein the data communication between two devices takes place exclusively between at least one transmitter of a first device and at least one receiver of a second device, and/or between at least one transmitter of the second device and at least one receiver of the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schrader, Lothar Miller
  • Circular blade with stand
    Patent number: 8881632
    Abstract: A circular blade with stand for cutting and portioning animal products. The circular blade rotates about a rotational axis on a vertical cutting plane and the blade is driven by a drive motor. The device includes a horizontal working plane on which the product to be cut is supported and guided in a transverse manner in relation to the vertical cutting plane. The drive motor driving the circular blade uses an angular gear and is held in a fixed position on the stand above the circular blade so that a free working area is provided on both sides of the circular blade for the uninhibited handling of the product to be cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: FREUND Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Robert Freund
  • DEVICE FOR COMMINUTING FEEDSTOCK
    Publication number: 20140306046
    Abstract: A device for comminuting feedstock with a rotor which is disposed within a housing and rotates about an axis of rotation and is equipped over its circumference with comminuting tools. A ring disc is attached to front sides of the rotor in each case concentrically to the axis of rotation. The removal of the sufficiently comminuted material occurs via a screen deck extending over part of the rotor circumference. On axial front sides of the screen deck an arcuate sealing element following the outer circumference of the ring disc is disposed in each case, the element which to form a sealing gap in the plane of the ring disc lies radially opposite to the disc. The sealing effect of the sealing gap between the screen deck and rotor uniformly over the entire length is successfully achieved in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: PALLMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut PALLMANN
  • Device and method for controlling a filling machine
    Publication number: 20140287664
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling a filling machine with a clipping machine, the clipping machine and the filling machine exchanging process data via a communication interface, where functions of the clipping machine, in particular the movement profile of opposed clipper scissors, and functions of the filling machine, in particular the speed profile of a feed mechanism, are automatically adjusted with respect to each other by at least one control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Schmid
  • METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COEXTRUDED FOOD PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20140287666
    Abstract: In a device for manufacturing co-extruded food products with a filling machine, including a pump for an inner mass coupled to a drive and a control unit at least for the drive, to which a coextrusion unit disposed at the outside is connected, and to which a pump being coupled to a drive at least for delivering the outer mass to the coextrusion unit is connected. The drive of the outer mass pump is integrated into the inner mass filling machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Gerhard Mueller