Patents by Inventor Derek Raymond Dil

Derek Raymond Dil has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Processing line and method for harvesting hearts from viscera packages taken out and detached from poultry carcasses
    Patent number: 11825855
    Abstract: A processing line for harvesting hearts from viscera packages taken out from poultry carcasses. An apparatus with an infeed section below a conveying track to mechanically grip the viscera package. The infeed section is equipped to transfer the viscera package from which the gizzard is removed to a processing section. An outfeed section that follows the processing section, which outfeed section is arranged to make the heart as separated from the viscera package available at an outlet for the heart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V.
    Inventors: Hermanus Laurentius Zomerdijk, Evert Kikstra, Derek Raymond Dil
  • PROCESSING LINE AND METHOD FOR HARVESTING HEARTS FROM VISCERA PACKAGES TAKEN OUT AND DETACHED FROM POULTRY CARCASSES
    Publication number: 20220159979
    Abstract: A processing line for harvesting hearts from viscera packages taken out from poultry carcasses. An apparatus with an infeed section below a conveying track to mechanically grip the viscera package. The infeed section is equipped to transfer the viscera package from which the gizzard is removed to a processing section. An outfeed section that follows the processing section, which outfeed section is arranged to make the heart as separated from the viscera package available at an outlet for the heart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hermanus Laurentius Zomerdijk, Evert Kikstra, Derek Raymond Dil
  • Intestines processing system and method for processing an intestines package
    Patent number: 10813364
    Abstract: An intestines processing system and method including a conveyor track with carriers, a tissue breaking section and a gallbladder removal station. The carrier can be equipped to move the intestines package through the tissue breaking section for breaking at least some of the tissue connections in the intestines package below the gallbladder, and to move the intestines package through the gallbladder removal station for removing the gallbladder from the remainder of the intestines package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Meyn Food Processing Technology B. V.
    Inventors: Hermanus Laurentius Zomerdijk, Evert Kikstra, Derek Raymond Dil
  • INTESTINES PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN INTESTINES PACKAGE
    Publication number: 20200054030
    Abstract: An intestines processing system and method including a conveyor track with carriers, a tissue breaking section and a gallbladder removal station. The carrier can be equipped to move the intestines package through the tissue breaking section for breaking at least some of the tissue connections in the intestines package below the gallbladder, and to move the intestines package through the gallbladder removal station for removing the gallbladder from the remainder of the intestines package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Hermanus Laurentius Zomerdijk, Evert Kikstra, Derek Raymond Dil