Patents by Inventor Jerome P. Lehman

Jerome P. Lehman 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 processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8020487
    Abstract: A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial to parallel loading station delivery system is provided. The food product is loaded onto a conveyor in the processing chamber having a plurality of two-piece food product cradles having openings receiving the food product at the loading station and discharging the food product at the unloading station and having gaps between food product carriers distally oppositely spaced from the openings and defining food product cavities therebetween, the width of the openings varying during traversal of the conveyor through the chamber from the loading to the unloading stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Alkar-RapidPak-MP Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Nordby, Dennis F. Conohan, Noel R. Johnson, Andi J. Mikelsons, Steve O. Schultz, Jerome P. Lehman, Seth T. Pulsfus
  • Food product carrier
    Patent number: 8015917
    Abstract: A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial to parallel loading station delivery system is provided. The food product is loaded onto a conveyor in the processing chamber having a plurality of two-piece food product cradles having openings receiving the food product at the loading station and discharging the food product at the unloading station and having gaps between food product carriers distally oppositely spaced from the openings and defining food product cavities therebetween, the width of the openings varying during traversal of the conveyor through the chamber from the loading to the unloading stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Alkar-RapidPak-MP Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Nordby, II, Dennis F. Conohan, Noel R. Johnson, Andi J. Mikelsons, Steve O. Schultz, Jerome P. Lehman, Seth T. Pulsfus
  • FOOD PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20090013880
    Abstract: A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial to parallel loading station delivery system is provided. The food product is loaded onto a conveyor in the processing chamber having a plurality of two-piece food product cradles having openings receiving the food product at the loading station and discharging the food product at the unloading station and having gaps between food product carriers distally oppositely spaced from the openings and defining food product cavities therebetween, the width of the openings varying during traversal of the conveyor through the chamber from the loading to the unloading stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Alkar-RapidPak, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Nordby, Dennis F. Conohan, Noel R. Johnson, Andi J. Mikelsons, Steve O. Schultz, Jerome P. Lehman, Seth T. Pulsfus
  • Food processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 7325486
    Abstract: A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial to parallel loading station delivery system is provided. The food product is loaded onto a conveyor in the processing chamber having a plurality of two-piece food product cradles having openings receiving the food product at the loading station and discharging the food product at the unloading station and having gaps between food product carriers distally oppositely spaced from the openings and defining food product cavities therebetween, the width of the openings varying during traversal of the conveyor through the chamber from the loading to the unloading stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Alkar-RapidPak, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Nordby, Dennis F. Conohan, Noel R. Johnson, Andi J. Mikelsons, Steve O. Schultz, Jerome P. Lehman, Seth T. Pulsfus
  • Loading system for elongated strand of food product
    Patent number: 7000816
    Abstract: A loading system is provided for loading an elongated strand of food product of given diameter on a moving transport conveyor. First and second loading conveyors are separated by a gap of dimension less than or equal to the diameter of the food product strand and convey the strand to a transfer ramp by an indexed drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Alkar-Rapidpak, Inc.
    Inventors: Andi J. Mikelsons, Luke A. Titel, Jerome P. Lehman, Dennis F. Conohan