Patents by Inventor Christopher P. Salm

Christopher P. Salm 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).

  • Method and apparatus for producing sausage
    Patent number: 6419968
    Abstract: A method for making sausages comprises coextruding sausage paste and collagen to form a continuous sausage body having an outer tube comprising collagen in surrounding relation to the sausage paste. The continuous sausage body is separated into individual sausage links, each having an exterior surface. The sausage links are transported to an enclosure. The sausage links are loaded into baskets mounted on an endless serpentine belt contained at least in part within the enclosure. The belt is caused to circulate along a serpentine path so that the sausage links are carried boustrophedomically by the baskets through the enclosure, and the baskets are caused to successively change their orientations rotationally as the belt circulates within the enclosure so that different parts of the exterior surface of each sausage link come successively into contact with a concave interior surface of the basket in which that sausage link is carried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Swift-Eckrich, Inc.
    Inventors: Pie-yi Wang, James Costelloe, Gary L. Moore, Christopher P. Salm