Patents by Inventor Jerry Edward Armstrong

Jerry Edward Armstrong 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).

  • Zero time clipper
    Patent number: 5775985
    Abstract: A method for stuffing food product into a tubular food casing at a predetermined linear rate of movement of stuffed food product, closing the stuffed food product to segregate the stuffed food product into links while the stuffed food product continues to move at said predetermined rate. The invention also includes an improved food product stuffing machine which stuffs food product into a tubular food casing at a predetermined linear rate of movement of stuffed food product, a closing device which applies closures to the stuffed food product to segregate the stuffed food product into stuffed food product links while the stuffed food product continues to move at said predetermined rate. After clipping, means is provided for returning the closing device to an original position to repeat the operation after another desired length of casing is stuffed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Devro-Teepak, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Ralph Stanley, Mark David Kelley, James Allen Snider, Jerry Edward Armstrong