Patents by Inventor Dan Sambrooks

Dan Sambrooks 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).

  • Link loader
    Publication number: 20110124276
    Abstract: A device for loading link sausages into a tray package includes a first continuous conveyor adapted and constructed to transport sausage links. A continuous transfer belt receives sausages from the first continuous conveyor, and transfers them to a separation and placement device adapted and constructed to separate the sausages from the first continuous conveyor into discrete groups of pluralities of sausages, and to deposit the sausages received onto packaging trays. A second continuous conveyor transports loaded trays of sausage links away from the metering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Waldrop, Christopher Neil Waldrop, Patrick Garinger, Dan Sambrooks, Donald Claussen, Edward Petras
  • Device to facilitate hog head removal
    Patent number: 7771257
    Abstract: A device for the clean removal of an animal part from an animal carcass is set forth. The device includes a puller that attaches to the animal part and to a cable. A piston is also provided. The piston is connected to the cable that pulls the part away from the animal carcass via the cable and the puller, and applies pressure to dislocate the bones from the animal carcass. The bones are dislocated without removing the dislocated section completely from the animal carcass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Momence Packing Co.
    Inventors: Patrick Garinger, Dan Sambrooks, David H. Slayton, Edward Petras