Patents Assigned to Pierre Foods, Inc.
  • Food mold plate and assembly
    Patent number: 6398540
    Abstract: A mold fill plate and mold fill assembly are characterized by a mold fill plate and mold shuttle plate each being a planar body defining a longitudinal extent and a transverse extent and each having a plurality of elongate slots arranged so that when the slots are in registry a flowable food product can pass through the slots into a mold chamber, the slots further being arranged along at least a portion of their longitudinal extent with each slot extending across at least a portion of the transverse extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Pierre Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas B. Burroughs, Kristopher F. Corbin