Patents by Inventor Kevin F. Cooper

Kevin F. Cooper 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).

  • Patent number: 5071326
    Abstract: Apparatus (20) for successively supplying substantially equal portions of a flowable comminuted product such as sausage from a source thereof to a delivery zone is disclosed wherein dual product portioning chambers (80, 88, 82, 90) are provided which function such that as meat to be portioned is directed into a first chamber which increases in volume to a predetermined extent, portioned meat is delivered from the other chamber as it decreases in volume to the same predetermined extent. Means (114) is provided externally of the chambers for substantially equalizing the increase and decrease of the effective product-receiving volume of each of the chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Marlen Research Corporation
    Inventors: William R. Wright, Richard G. Powers, Wendell E. Dennis, James E. Anderson, Kevin F. Cooper