Patents by Inventor Frank-Willem Johan Martin VAN HAPPEN

Frank-Willem Johan Martin VAN HAPPEN 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).

  • Food singulator apparatus
    Patent number: 10940602
    Abstract: A food singulator apparatus is configured to generate a sequence of spaced apart food slices from a food product conveyed by a conveyor apparatus. The apparatus includes an engagement member for engaging with a front side of the food product and temporarily halt the food product while cutting by a cutting device a front food slice of the food product, and a takeaway device for downwardly sliding the front food slice from the remaining part of the food product and slide it downwards and under the takeaway device where the food slice is subsequently received as an individual food slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: MAREL MEAT B.V., MAREL A/S
    Inventors: Frank-Willem Johan Martin Van Happen, Niels Hundtofte, Lars Riis Jensen
  • A FOOD SINGULATOR APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200368933
    Abstract: A food singulator apparatus is configured to generate a sequence of spaced apart food slices from a food product conveyed by a conveyor apparatus. The apparatus includes an engagement member for engaging with a front side of the food product and temporarily halt the food product while cutting by a cutting device a front food slice of the food product, and a takeaway device for downwardly sliding the front food slice from the remaining part of the food product and slide it downwards and under the takeaway device where the food slice is subsequently received as an individual food slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Frank-Willem Johan Martin VAN HAPPEN, Niels HUNDTOFTE, Lars Riis JENSEN