Abstract: In a web packaging machine (10) and method packaging a food product (P) between upper and lower webs (14 and 25), wherein the lower web (14) is transported through a series of stations which form the lower web (14) into a component of a package at a forming station (18), and receive the food product (P) at a loading station (20), and close the package with the upper web (25) at a closing station (26), a pasteurization station (300) is provided between the loading station (20) and the closing station (26) and pasteurizing the food product (P).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 13, 2002
Date of Patent:
January 18, 2005
Assignee:
Alkar RapidPak, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert E. Hanson, Craig R. Bonneville, Tou T. Vang, Vernon D. Karman, Gary Lee Hahn, Nelly Feze, John J. Jurkowski
Abstract: A food processing system circulates a processing medium along a circulation path having first and second segments perpendicular to food product travel along a horizontal conveyor. In another aspect, desired sequencing is provided including reversal of orientation order of return and supply path segments of the circulating processing medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 8, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 12, 2003
Assignee:
Alkar-RapidPak, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert E. Hanson, Dennis F. Conohan, Brian G. Sandberg, Peter G. Senn, Dennis P. Roelke, David L. Brethorst, Glenn L. Leach, Christopher D. McLinn, Seth T. Pulsfus, Thomas J. Betley
Abstract: A food processing system for an elongated strand of food product, such as hot dogs or sausage links, provides aligned orientation of conveyor hooks and identical arrival time spacing between adjacent hooks at a reference loading point at a strand producing machine discharge station.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 2002
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2003
Assignee:
Alkar-RapidPak, Inc.
Inventors:
Noel R. Johnson, David Norby, Wendell J. Holl, Andi Mikelsons, David Lukens, Nicholas Cable, Anthony Renger, Robert E. Hanson