Patents by Inventor Martinus Johannes Willebrordus van Zoelen
Martinus Johannes Willebrordus van Zoelen 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).
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Publication number: 20220400713Abstract: A food process line and method are provided for processing food in a food process line. The food process line includes at least two of the following process line stations: a food preparation station, cold store, pump station or forming station for a pumpable food mass, or a dry coater, wet coating device, fryer, heater or freezer for the discrete food products. In each process line station at least one process step is carried out, the process line station having one or more actuators and/or one or more sensors. The food process line comprises an interstation control system configured to control an actuator of a first process line station on the basis of data from a sensor of a second process line station.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Hendrikus Cornelis Koos VAN DOORN, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus VAN ZOELEN, Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS, Eric Henricus Johannus Carolus ABEN
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Publication number: 20220079173Abstract: A moveable mould member is configured for use in an installation for moulding food products from a pumpable foodstuff mass. The mould member has a permeable mould body with an outer surface forming at least part of the outer mould member surface, which outer surface of the permeable mould body is fluid tight; mould cavities and a permeable volume defining fine openings opening out at the mould cavities, such that each mould cavity of the permeable mould body is delimited at least in part by a permeable volume. In addition, the mould drum has, for each group of mould cavities from which food products are to be ejected simultaneously, an ejection fluid inlet allowing the entry of pressurized fluid, and one or more channels extending from the associated ejection fluid inlet to the one or more permeable volumes of the group of mould cavities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS, Thomas Willem DEKKER, Erik Hendrikus Werner PETERS, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus VAN ZOELEN, Jacques LE PAIH
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Patent number: 11096411Abstract: An apparatus for coating a food product with a batter, includes a frame having a conveyor belt mounted on a rotatably driveable belt support member. The coating apparatus has a batter pump for pumping batter from a batter container towards an upper applicator positioned over the conveyor belt to form a stream of batter flow from the applicator to the conveyor belt to provide batter to an upper surface of the food product. The front roller is positioned at the food product entry section to provide a layer of batter on the conveyor belt at the entry section by a thrust on the batter towards the entry section by the front roller and/or the conveyor belt. The coating apparatus comprises a batter overflow device positioned at the entry section and is mounted between the transport run and the return run of the conveyor belt.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: MAREL FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Eric Henricus Johannus Carolus Aben, Thomas Willem Dekker, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus Van Zoelen, Johannes Martinus Meulendijks
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Patent number: 11076627Abstract: An in-line coating machine adapted to coat food products with a particulate coating material has a food products conveyor; a coating device; an excess coating material separation station; an excess coating material recovery conveyor; and a particulate coating material elevator device. An elevator device fill assembly along the recovery conveyor is configured to fill the elevator device with recovered excess coating material. An adjustable discharge opening device controls a discharge opening in the recovered excess coating material bed support. An adjustable upper layer diverter device engages an upper layer of the recovered excess coating material bed passing over the recovered excess coating material bed support and diverts at least a portion of the upper layer at an adjustable rate into the particulate coating material elevator device.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: MAREL FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Johannes Martinus Meulendijks, Wilhelmus Johannes Jacobus Maria Van Der Straaten, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus Van Zoelen, Mathias Marcellus Kuijpers
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Publication number: 20200390141Abstract: An apparatus for coating a food product with a batter, comprises a frame having a conveyor belt mounted on a rotatably driveable belt support member. The coating apparatus comprises a batter pump for pumping batter from a batter container towards an upper applicator positioned over the conveyor belt to form a stream of batter flow from the applicator means to the conveyor belt to provide batter to an upper surface of the food product. The front roller is positioned at the food product entry section to provide a layer of batter on the conveyor belt at the entry section by a thrust on the batter towards the entry section by the front roller and/or the conveyor belt. The coating apparatus comprises a batter overflow device positioned at the entry section and is mounted between the transport run and the return run of the conveyor belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Eric Henricus Johannus Carolus ABEN, Thomas Willem DEKKER, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus VAN ZOELEN, Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS
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Publication number: 20200375240Abstract: An in-line coating machine adapted to coat food products with a particulate coating material has a food products conveyor; a coating device; an excess coating material separation station; an excess coating material recovery conveyor; and a particulate coating material elevator device. An elevator device fill assembly along the recovery conveyor is configured to fill the elevator device with recovered excess coating material. An adjustable discharge opening device controls a discharge opening in the recovered excess coating material bed support. An adjustable upper layer diverter device engages an upper layer of the recovered excess coating material bed passing over the recovered excess coating material bed support and diverts at least a portion of the upper layer at an adjustable rate into the particulate coating material elevator device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS, Wilhelmus Johannes Jacobus Maria VAN DER STRAATEN, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus VAN ZOELEN, Mathias Marcellus KUIJPERS
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Patent number: 10631565Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary cylindrical mould member and a method for manufacturing a rotary cylindrical mould member for moulding food products suitable for consumption. One or more recessed mould cavities (21) are formed in an curved outer surface (22c) of at least one porous mould body (22), defining the shape of the products which are to be produced. An airflow-resistive skin layer is formed by plastic deformation of a cavity surface layer, having a first flow resistance. An inner volume of the porous mould body (22) between an inner surface (22i) and the airflow-resistive skin layer has a porous structure with a second flow resistance to a compressed air flow through the porous inner volume, wherein according to the invention the first flow resistance is essentially the same as the second flow resistance.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: MAREL FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Johannes Martinus Meulendijks, Dirk Meskendahl, Charles Johannes Maria Geurts, Matheus Martinus Maria Van Der Horst, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus Van Zoelen
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Publication number: 20190183162Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary cylindrical mould member and a method for manufacturing a rotary cylindrical mould member for moulding food products suitable for consumption. One or more recessed mould cavities (21) are formed in an curved outer surface (22c) of at least one porous mould body (22), defining the shape of the products which are to be produced. An airflow-resistive skin layer is formed by plastic deformation of a cavity surface layer, having a first flow resistance. An inner volume of the porous mould body (22) between an inner surface (22i) and the airflow-resistive skin layer has a porous structure with a second flow resistance to a compressed air flow through the porous inner volume, wherein according to the invention the first flow resistance is essentially the same as the second flow resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: MAREL FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS, Dirk MESKENDAHL, Charles Johannes Maria GEURTS, Matheus Martinus Maria VAN DER HORST, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus VAN ZOELEN
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Patent number: 9788554Abstract: In a method for moulding food patties from a food product comprising a food mass (5) having a substantially coherent structure formed by particles of the food product that are loosely connected to each other, for example ground meat, the food product is first supplied to a supply hopper (3). Food product is moved in the supply hopper to at least one discharge opening (8) of the supply hopper, from which it is discharged. The food product that has been discharged from the discharge opening of the supply hopper is fed into at least one pump chamber (12) of a positive displacement pump system. Subsequently, the food product in the pump chamber is positively displaced to an outlet opening of the pump chamber by the positive displacement pump system (20). The food product is discharged from the outlet opening of the pump chamber, and then fed into a moulding device having a plurality of mould cavities for molding the food patties.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Marel Townsend Further Processing B.V.Inventors: Martinus Johannes Willebrordus Van Zoelen, Thomas Willem Dekker, Franciscus Quirinus Fredrik Verouden, Sigebertus Johannes Jacobus Jozef Meggelaars
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Patent number: 9635866Abstract: In a method for molding food products from a pumpable foodstuff mass, use is made of a molding device with a mold drum provided with mold cavities having a fill opening for the introduction of foodstuff mass. A mass feed member transfers mass into passing mold cavities. A pump is connected to the inlet of the mass feed member. Product removal takes place downstream of the fill position. The operation of the pump and the rotation of the mold drum are controlled in combination with the design of the mold cavities pattern on the drum and of the mouth of the mass feed member such that in the method all mold cavity filling events during a revolution of the mold drum are performed in sequential order.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: MAREL TOWNSEND FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Johannes Martinus Meulendijks, Thomas Willem Dekker, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus Van Zoelen, Jeroen Robert Willemsen
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Patent number: 9526269Abstract: A molding device (10) for molding three-dimensional products (76) from a mass of foodstuff comprises a molding roller (16) and a filling device (18). The molding roller (16) has a molding surface with at least one mold cavity (44) which is delimited by a mold cavity (44) opening. The filling device (18) has a dispensing mouth (36) and a pump. The dispensing mouth (36) and the mold cavity (44) opening each have, viewed in the direction of the movement path, a front edge and a rear edge which is situated at a fixed distance thereof. A position-determining device determines the position of the front edge of the mold cavity (44) opening with respect to the front edge of the dispensing mouth during the movement of the mold cavity (44) opening and the dispensing mouth (36) with respect to each other. A control unit controls the pump on the basis of the position-determining device during the movement of the mold cavity (44) opening and the dispensing mouth (36) with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Marel Townsend Further Procesing B.V.Inventors: Hendrikus Cornelis Koos van Doorn, Jeroen Robert Willemsen, Thomas Willem Dekker, Leon Spierts, Albertus Dunnewind, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus van Zoelen
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Publication number: 20150208674Abstract: In a method for moulding food patties from a food product comprising a food mass (5) having a substantially coherent structure formed by particles of the food product that are loosely connected to each other, for example ground meat, the food product is first supplied to a supply hopper (3). Food product is moved in the supply hopper to at least one discharge opening (8) of the supply hopper, from which it is discharged. The food product that has been discharged from the discharge opening of the supply hopper is fed into at least one pump chamber (12) of a positive displacement pump system. Subsequently, the food product in the pump chamber is positively displaced to an outlet opening of the pump chamber by the positive displacement pump system (20). The food product is discharged from the outlet opening of the pump chamber, and then fed into a moulding device having a plurality of mould cavities for moulding the food patties.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Martinus Johannes Willebrordus Van Zoelen, Thomas Willem Dekker, Franciscus Quirinus Fredrik Verouden, Sigebertus Johannes Jacobus Jozef Meggelaars
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Publication number: 20150044335Abstract: In a method for moulding food products from a pumpable foodstuff mass, use is made of a moulding device with a mould drum provided with mould cavities having a fill opening for the introduction of foodstuff mass. A mass feed member transfers mass into passing mould cavities. A pump is connected to the inlet of the mass feed member. Product removal takes place downstream of the fill position. The operation of the pump and the rotation of the mould drum are controlled in combination with the design of the mould cavities pattern on the drum and of the mouth of the mass feed member such that in the method all mould cavity filling events during a revolution of the mould drum are performed in sequential order.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Johannes Martinus Meulendijks, Thomas Willem Dekker, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus VAN Zoelen, Jeroen Robert Willemsen
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Publication number: 20140141135Abstract: A moulding device (10) for moulding three-dimensional products (76) from a mass of foodstuff comprises a moulding roller (16) and a filling device (18). The moulding roller (16) has a moulding surface with at least one mould cavity (44) which is delimited by a mould cavity (44) opening. The filling device (18) has a dispensing mouth (36) and a pump. The dispensing mouth (36) and the mould cavity (44) opening each have, viewed in the direction of the movement path, a front edge and a rear edge which is situated at a fixed distance thereof. A position-determining device determines the position of the front edge of the mould cavity (44) opening with respect to the front edge of the dispensing mouth during the movement of the mould cavity (44) opening and the dispensing mouth (36) with respect to each other. A control unit controls the pump on the basis of the position-determining device during the movement of the mould cavity (44) opening and the dispensing mouth (36) with respect to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Inventors: Hendrikus Cornelis Koos van Doom, Jeroen Robert Willemsen, Thomas Willem Dekker, Leon Spierts, Albertus Dunnewind, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus van Zoelen