Patents by Inventor Edward E. Dutton

Edward E. Dutton 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 of canning fish
    Patent number: 4166140
    Abstract: A fish-canning method using a machine having two adjacent parallel rotary turrets each having a fish-receiving pocket in the periphery thereof. The turrets are positioned to align the pockets with each other to form a single combined pocket which is then filled with fish from a correspondingly large size feed chute of increasing cross-sectional area. The fish in the pockets is severed between the turrets and the turrets are rotated by different amounts to move the filled pockets laterally out of alignment with each other. The fish in both filled pockets is formed into the shape of a can and ejected endwise from the pockets into two separate cans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Assignee: Sea-Pac, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward E. Dutton, Jack Gorby
  • Solid pack tuna canning machine
    Patent number: 4116600
    Abstract: A fish-canning machine having two adjacent parallel rotary turrets each having a fish-receiving pocket in the periphery thereof. The turrets are positioned to align the pockets with each other to form a single combined pocket which is then filled with fish from a corresponding large size feed chute of increasing cross-sectional area. The fish in the pockets is severed between the turrets and the turrets are rotated by different amounts to move the filled pockets laterally out of alignment with each other. The fish in both filled pockets is formed into the shape of a can and ejected endwise from the pockets into two separate cans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Sea-Pac, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward E. Dutton, Jack Gorby