Patents Assigned to Albert Handtmann
  • Device for filling casings
    Patent number: 8137167
    Abstract: A device for filling casings, having a twist-off head which comprises circumferentially offset filling tubes and which is arranged on a support panel to be displaceable in axially parallel fashion and to be rotatable, and a rotatingly drivable casing brake which is axially aligned with a filling tube located in the filling position, the casing brake and the support panel being connected via a rigid shaft which comprises a support section extending towards the casing brake and a guide section extending centrally through the twist-off head, with a drive train being arranged in said shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Juergen Rechsteiner, Christian Restle, Michael Hammerer
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COOLING FOOD MACHINERY
    Publication number: 20120031583
    Abstract: A machine for producing or processing foods with a machine housing and a cooling system for cooling the machine housing interior, whereby the cooling system is formed in such a way that the ambient air is not contaminated by the cooling agent that is contaminated with germs, and a method for cooling the food processing or producing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: BERND MAILE, Günter Sailer
  • DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AND FILLING UP FINE SAUSAGE MEAT, IN PARTICULAR AN EMULSION
    Publication number: 20110248105
    Abstract: A device and a method of manufacturing and filling up product in the form of fine sausage meat, in particular an emulsion, with a feed means for the product, a feed pump for transporting the product, at least one downstream fine mincer as well as a filling and/or portioning means arranged downstream of the fine mincer for filling up the produced fine sausage meat or the emulsion, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Braig, Manfred Baechtle, Siegfried Reutter, Gerhard Mueller
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PARTING SAUSAGE CHAINS
    Publication number: 20110223846
    Abstract: A method and a device for separating a sausage chain into single sausages, where filled, portioned sausages are initially transported with a first transport device and with a second transport device arranged behind the first transport device in the transport direction T. The portioning point between two consecutively arranged sausages is enlarged due to the transport speed of the second transport device being faster at least intermittently than the transport speed of the first transport device. The sausage chain is then parted at the portioning point in the second transport device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: MANFRED BAECHTLE, Juergen Flach, Klaus Schmid
  • Device for Filling Casings
    Publication number: 20100330891
    Abstract: A device for filling casings, having a twist-off head which comprises circumferentially offset filling tubes and which is arranged on a support panel to be displaceable in axially parallel fashion and to be rotatable, and a rotatingly drivable casing brake which is axially aligned with a filling tube located in the filling position, the casing brake and the support panel being connected via a rigid shaft which comprises a support section extending towards the casing brake and a guide section extending centrally through the twist-off head, with a drive train being arranged in said shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Juergen Rechsteiner, Christian Restle, Michael Hammerer
  • BEARING ASSEMBLY WITH A BEARING ELEMENT MADE OF ELTIMID
    Publication number: 20100266226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bearing assembly, having at least one first bearing element and a second bearing element being movable relative to the first bearing element, wherein at least one of the bearing elements is made of ELTIMID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN ELTEKA GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Jorg VOLLMANN-SCHIPPER
  • HOLDING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100233949
    Abstract: A holding device for a stuffing machine for stuffing sausages, having ahead provided with a casing brake, and a drive shaft through which the casing brake can be driven, the casing brake enclosing the free end of a filling tube of the stuffing machine at an operating position and exposing the free end of the filling tube by pivoting the head away at a sausage casing pull-on position. When the head is being moved from the operating position to the sausage casing pull-on position, the drive shaft is deflected at an angle ? relative to the longitudinal axis of the holding device without decoupling of the power train.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Maile, Armin Kibler
  • Cutting Valve and Method for Making Portions
    Publication number: 20100203816
    Abstract: A cutting valve for portioning a paste-like mass, having a partitioning piston which is drivable in a portioning chamber with an inlet relative to the inlet and which comprises a cutting edge which during partitioning is movable to sweep over the inlet, the partitioning piston is drivable in the partitioning process to perform a helical movement with simultaneous translatory and rotatory movement components, so that the cutting edge carries out a draw cut in the mass strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO.KG
    Inventor: Bernd Maile
  • Smoking rail feed means and method of accurately feeding the same
    Patent number: 7766729
    Abstract: A smoking rail feed device as well as a method of accurately positioning a smoking rail in sausage loops or in loops of other products suspended from a hanger, and having, for improved insertion of the smoking rail into the loops, a smoking rail support, on which the smoking rail rests, at least partially, and oriented in the direction of the hanger. The smoking rail support is adapted to be displaced such that the smoking rail is transferred substantially in the longitudinal direction from the smoking rail feed device to a pick-up area of the hanger, in which the loops are arranged for being picked up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Torsten Liermann, Benjamin Abele, Steffen Mayer
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A SAUSAGE-CASING-SENSITIVE DIVISION OF STUFFED SAUSAGE STRANDS
    Publication number: 20100190425
    Abstract: An apparatus for a sausage-casing-sensitive division of stuffed sausage strands, having at least one pair of dividing elements for dividing the stuffed sausage strand and at least two guide elements between which the stuffed sausage strand is conveyed in the conveying direction. The distance between the guide elements can be adjusted in dependence upon the sausage caliber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINEFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Juergen Flach, Wolfgang Braig, Juergen Bochtler, Jochen Merk
  • Temperature control of the mass flow in a filling machine
    Patent number: 7744448
    Abstract: A method and a filling machine for the temperature control of a mass flow in a filling machine, wherein the mass flow passes through several sections. In order to also process temperature-sensitive types of filling material reliably with the minimum outlay, the temperature of the filling material is measured in several sections of the filling machine and the temperature of the filling material is controlled by a heating/cooling device to a certain temperature in dependence of the measured temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Maile, Peter Willburger
  • Vane pump
    Patent number: 7682226
    Abstract: A vane pump for delivering pasty masses, in particular sausage meat, with a pump case 6 and a rotatably held rotor 3 comprising vanes 2 held so as to be radially movable which form delivery cells 4 together with the wall 5 of the pump case 6, with a suction area, a pressure area and a sealing area separating the pressure area from the suction area. For a better sealing between the suction area and the sealing area, in particular in case of high pressures in the pressure area, and for increasing the service life of the vane pump, in the sealing area at least one sealing element is provided for sealing a gap between the rotor and the wall of the pump case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Maile, Paul Mantz, Martin Staudenrausch
  • Meat mincing machine
    Patent number: 7628345
    Abstract: A meat mincing machine and a method of producing minced foodstuffs, in particular minced meat, with an inlet, at least one blade on a following perforated disc, as well as with a separating device for separating and drawing off hard constituents wherein, to improve the weight accuracy, it has a device for the determination of the drawn-off amount of separated product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Schmid, Siegfried Reutter, Manfred Baechtle, Wolfgang Braig
  • Smoke stick gripper
    Patent number: 7614942
    Abstract: A gripper system for gripping and transferring a smoke stick introduced into sausage loops or into other products suspended on hooks in loops or in pairs. For the simple and proper gripping and transferal of a smoke stick a smoke stick is first lifted to remove the products from the hooks with at least two grippers, wherein the grippers grip the smoke stick between the hooks, wherein the grippers hold and fix the smoke stick during removal. The smoke stick and the products suspended from it are then aligned by rotation of the smoke stick about its longitudinal axis. The smoke stick is then transported to a smoke stick depository, wherein the smoke stick is fixed in the grippers and then deposited on a smoke stick depository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Torsten Liermann, Markus Fuchs, Steffen Mayer, Benjamin Abele
  • Method and device for filling paste-like substances into skins
    Patent number: 7597613
    Abstract: A device and a method for filling a paste-like substance into a skin, and having a filling tube through which the paste-like substance is pushed into the skin, and a casing brake which is arranged in the area of the ejection end of the filling tube and which presses the skin in the direction of the filling tube. In order to prevent the formation of blisters below the skin, a second casing brake is provided, which, when seen in the direction of ejection, is arranged ahead of the first casing brake and which presses the skin in the direction of the filling tube so that air can be sucked off from below the skin between the first and the second casing brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Martin Staudenrausch
  • Device and method for manufacturing sausages
    Patent number: 7591717
    Abstract: A device and a method for the manufacture of sausages from paste mass, in particular sausage meat, with a coextrusion head for coextruding the paste mass and a sausage casing, wherein the coextrusion head comprises a filling tube for the ejection of the paste mass as well as an extrusion die assigned to the filling tube with an extrusion gap for ejecting the easing material. In order to produce strong sausage casings, the filling tube protrudes by a distance X beyond the annular gap so that the casing material is extruded through the annular gap onto the filling tube and solidifies along the filling tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenf Abrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Bächtle, Siegfried Reutter, Markus Schliesser
  • FILLING MACHINE AND A FILLING METHOD
    Publication number: 20090130962
    Abstract: A filling machine and a method of filling foodstuffs e.g. into sausage casings, with the filling machine having supplied thereto containers in which a foodstuff is stored, and a machine control unit. In order to guarantee a correct operation of the filling machine, a data reader receives container data stored in a storage means at the respective container, whereby the machine control unit is implemented such that the filling process is executed in dependence upon the container data read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN
    Inventors: Peter Willburger, Gerhard Mueller
  • Method and Device for Filling Paste-Like Substances Into Skins
    Publication number: 20090111366
    Abstract: A device and a method for filling a paste-like substance into a skin, and having a filling tube through which the paste-like substance is pushed into the skin, and a casing brake which is arranged in the area of the ejection end of the filling tube and which presses the skin in the direction of the filling tube. In order to prevent the formation of blisters below the skin, a second casing brake is provided, which, when seen in the direction of ejection, is arranged ahead of the first casing brake and which presses the skin in the direction of the filling tube so that air can be sucked off from below the skin between the first and the second casing brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN
    Inventor: Martin Staudenrausch
  • Filling machine and method of feeding paste masses from a hopper into a conveying mechanism
    Patent number: 7500909
    Abstract: A method and a filling machine for charging paste mass, in particular sausage meat, with a conveying mechanism 14 arranged at the lower end 3 of the hopper 1 and a feed device 4, 5 for feeding the paste mass from the hopper into the conveying mechanism. To facilitate the charging of the conveying mechanism from the hopper 1 continuously and completely with paste mass, and namely independent of the degree of evacuation and the filling level of the paste mass, the feed device comprises a combination of a feeder curve 4 and a screw conveyor 5 arranged within the feeder curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernd Maile
  • SMOKING RAIL FEED MEANS AND METHOD OF ACCURATELY FEEDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20090047885
    Abstract: A smoking rail feed means as well as a method of accurately positioning a smoking rail in sausage loops or in loops of other products suspended from a hanger, and having, for improved insertion of the smoking rail into the loops, a smoking rail support, on which the smoking rail rests, at least partially, and oriented in the direction of the hanger. The smoking rail support is adapted to be displaced such that the smoking rail is transferred substantially in the longitudinal direction from the smoking rail feed means to a pick-up area of the hanger, in which the loops are arranged for being picked up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Torsten Liermann, Bejamin Abele, Steffen Mayer