Patents by Inventor Kenneth E. Tribbett

Kenneth E. Tribbett 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).

  • Dual extrusion apparatus
    Patent number: 4570298
    Abstract: A frank making apparatus for extruding a frank having a hollow interior filled with a condiment, such as chili, cheese, taco sauce or the like, includes a reciprocating stuffing horn assembly. The stuffing horn assembly includes concentrically arranged inner and outer stuffing tubes which are secured together and which reciprocate between advanced and retracted positions. The outer stuffing tube, when in the advanced position, is disposed in communicating relation with a metering pump connected to a source of sausage material so that the sausage material is extruded from a cylindrical chamber located between the inner and outer stuffing tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Geo. A. Hormel & Co.
    Inventor: Kenneth E. Tribbett
  • Dual extrusion apparatus
    Patent number: 4569101
    Abstract: A frank making apparatus for extruding a frank having a hollow interior filled with a condiment, such as chili, cheese, taco sauce or the like, includes a reciprocating stuffing horn assembly. The stuffing horn assembly includes concentrically arranged inner and outer stuffing tubes which are secured together and which reciprocate between advanced and retracted positions. The outer stuffing tube, when in the advanced position, is disposed in communicating relation with a metering pump connected to a source of sausage material so that the sausage material is extruded from a cylindrical chamber located between the inner and outer stuffing tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: Geo. A. Hormel & Co.
    Inventor: Kenneth E. Tribbett
  • Conveyor segment
    Patent number: D264200
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Geo. A. Hormel & Company
    Inventors: F. Richard Imboden, Kenneth E. Tribbett, Franklin J. Smith