Common Infeed Means Patents (Class 53/280)
  • Patent number: 6625961
    Abstract: A device for the rapid packaging of various meat products includes at least four bagging chutes that are fed by a rotary chute. Once bags located at the bottom of the bagging chute are filled with a meat product, they are placed on a conveyor belt. The device is designed in such a manner so as to prevent meat products from accidentally falling onto the ground and thus wasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Inventors: Mark A. Ogier, Timothy J. Ogier
  • Patent number: 5390469
    Abstract: A filling/sealing apparatus used for ampules generally has a feed star wheel feeding ampules, a turntable transporting the ampules delivered from the feed star wheel, and an intermediate star wheel interposed between the feed star wheel and the turntable. Around the turntable, filling needles fill the ampules with liquid, burners seal the upper ends of the ampules, and pincers pinch the upper ends of ampules. Sensors determine whether the ampules being transported by the intermediate star wheel have the upper ends intact and damaged ampules are removed. The number of ampules that can be held by the turntable as well as the star wheel is set to integral times as many as the number of ampules that can be simultaneously filled by the filling needles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Eisai Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Shimizu, Toshiyasu Ehara, Kazumi Maruoka, Kiyoshi Yamagishi