Patents by Inventor John B. Gorun

John B. Gorun 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).

  • Side loading pendulum slicer
    Patent number: 10245742
    Abstract: A side-loading pendulum slicer for slicing short and/or oddly-shaped food products. The pendulum slicer has an aperture in the upstream side of the product holder through which food products are injected. A loading conveyor holds large numbers of food products that are sequentially and individually loaded onto an injecting conveyor that injects the food products through the aperture and into the product holder. A weight that is raised above the aperture is lowered onto the food product to compress the food product against a thickness tray while the product holder reciprocates through a blade adjacent the thickness tray. Slices are removed from the food product and conveyed away for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: J.E. Grote Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John Timothy Foreman, John B. Gorun
  • SIDE LOADING PENDULUM SLICER
    Publication number: 20150209972
    Abstract: A side-loading pendulum slicer for slicing short and/or oddly-shaped food products. The pendulum slicer has an aperture in the upstream side of the product holder through which food products are injected. A loading conveyor holds large numbers of food products that are sequentially and individually loaded onto an injecting conveyor that injects the food products through the aperture and into the product holder. A weight that is raised above the aperture is lowered onto the food product to compress the food product against a thickness tray while the product holder reciprocates through a blade adjacent the thickness tray. Slices are removed from the food product and conveyed away for use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: J.E. Grote Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John Timothy Foreman, John B. Gorun
  • Blade cleaner for a continuous loop blade on a food slicing machine
    Patent number: 6968764
    Abstract: A cleaning device for a continuous loop band blade food processing machine. A pair of scrapers is positioned on, and seated against, opposite sides of the blade for scraping matter from the blade as it passes between the scrapers. The scrapers are biased against the blade. The upper scraper has an axis that is transverse to the blade's axis, and the blade can be removed by loosening the screw attaching the upper scraper and pivoting the scraper about the screw. The edge of the upper scraper is transverse to the blade's axis to cause scraped matter to flow toward a deflector panel that guides air and scraped matter into a vacuum inlet which is positioned near the edges of each scraper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: J. E. Grote Company
    Inventors: John B. Gorun, David S. Rauch