Patents Assigned to JFC Inc.
  • Patent number: 6151866
    Abstract: A method enabling the selective packaging of a product comprising a plurality of items of varying weights, such as chicken parts, and subsequent even-weight scannable packaging of the same. The method includes the steps of weighing each individual part; sorting each individual parts into a holding bin; accumulating a plurality of parts in each bin until a predetermined weight of parts is reached in a first of the bins; emptying the first bin of its parts; and packaging the parts in the appropriate package. The steps of emptying and packaging the parts in accord with the method of the present invention would be repeated as the bins were determined to hold the appropriate weight of product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: JFC Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas Robert Connell