Patents by Inventor C. Wane Jordan

C. Wane Jordan 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).

  • Chicken sorting device
    Patent number: 4720961
    Abstract: A device for filling a package with a predetermined weight of items, such as pieces of chicken, is disclosed. The device, under the control of a computer, sorts predetermined quantities of chicken pieces to a plurality of pockets each of which is adapted to transfer the predetermined quantities of chicken pieces sorted thereto so that they may be passed to a partially filled package, upon receipt of a control signal from the computer. The device, under the control of the computer, selects which of the pockets contains pieces of chicken which should be added to the partially filled package in order to bring the contents of that package up to the predetermined weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: Conagra, Inc.
    Inventor: C. Wane Jordan
  • Chicken weighing apparatus
    Patent number: 4428179
    Abstract: A device for filling a package with a predetermined weight of items, such as pieces of chicken, is disclosed. The device, under the control of a computer, determines which, of several pieces of chicken held in a plurality of holding means, should be added to a partially filled package in order to bring the contents of that package up to the predetermined weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: Banquet Foods Corporation
    Inventors: C. Wane Jordan, John W. Walker