Patents by Inventor Mathias Marcellus Kuijpers

Mathias Marcellus Kuijpers 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).

  • Patent number: 11771097
    Abstract: An installation for moulding of three dimensional products from a mass of pumpable foodstuff material includes a pump having at least one pump chamber, a pump drive, and a moulding device including a mould drum, a mould member drive for moving the mould drum along a path, and a mass feed member. The mass feed member has a chamber with an inlet, a discharge mouth facing the mould member at the fill position along the path of the mould drum, an orificed grinder body and multiple mobile grinder members each arranged at one of the distinct positions of the mold cavities and cooperating with the grinding face of the orificed grinder body. The installation is advantageously employed for the manufacture of meat products from a pumpable meat mass for the manufacture of meat patties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MAREL FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.
    Inventors: Geert Johannes Lok, Mathias Marcellus Kuijpers, Thomas Willem Dekker, Johannes Martinus Meulendijks
  • Publication number: 20230248047
    Abstract: A mould drum system configured for use in an installation for moulding food products from a pumpable foodstuff mass while the drum is rotating a mould drum around a longitudinal rotation axis by a driving unit. A support device is connected to the frame structure, having an inner side, the support device being moveable relative to the frame structure between an open position and a closing position. A shaft is provided having a mounting side at which it is mounted to the frame and an opposite free end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Josephus Gerardus Maria JILESEN, Mathias Marcellus KUIJPERS, Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS
  • Publication number: 20230142861
    Abstract: A system and a method for moulding food products from a pumpable foodstuff mass include a mould member having an outer surface. One or more recessed mould cavities are provided. An ejection fluid inlet opening of the mould member is arranged relatively movable with respect to an outlet opening of the ejection fluid source. Ejection fluid is allowed to enter the mould member when an outlet opening overlaps an ejection fluid inlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS, Bernardus Wilhelmus Franciscus LEFERINK, Mathias Marcellus KUIJPERS, Caz BOUDRI
  • Publication number: 20230147945
    Abstract: A mould drum, a system for moulding comprising a mould drum, a method for moulding, and a method for manufacturing a mould drum such that the mould drum includes a mould tube defining an outer circumferential surface with groups of multiple recessed mould cavities. The mould tube has a first mould tube head end. The mould drum includes a driven flange structure arranged against the first mould tube head end, which is adapted to be driven by a mould drum drive member to rotate the mould tube about a drum rotation axis. The driven flange structure is provided with a tooth profile, and the mould tube is provided with a meshing tooth profile, both tooth profiles meshing with each other and thereby being able to transfer torque from the driven flange structure to the mould tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Josephus Gerardus Maria JILESEN, Mathias Marcellus KUIJPERS, Caz BOUDRI, Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS
  • Patent number: 11076627
    Abstract: An in-line coating machine adapted to coat food products with a particulate coating material has a food products conveyor; a coating device; an excess coating material separation station; an excess coating material recovery conveyor; and a particulate coating material elevator device. An elevator device fill assembly along the recovery conveyor is configured to fill the elevator device with recovered excess coating material. An adjustable discharge opening device controls a discharge opening in the recovered excess coating material bed support. An adjustable upper layer diverter device engages an upper layer of the recovered excess coating material bed passing over the recovered excess coating material bed support and diverts at least a portion of the upper layer at an adjustable rate into the particulate coating material elevator device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MAREL FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Martinus Meulendijks, Wilhelmus Johannes Jacobus Maria Van Der Straaten, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus Van Zoelen, Mathias Marcellus Kuijpers
  • Publication number: 20200375240
    Abstract: An in-line coating machine adapted to coat food products with a particulate coating material has a food products conveyor; a coating device; an excess coating material separation station; an excess coating material recovery conveyor; and a particulate coating material elevator device. An elevator device fill assembly along the recovery conveyor is configured to fill the elevator device with recovered excess coating material. An adjustable discharge opening device controls a discharge opening in the recovered excess coating material bed support. An adjustable upper layer diverter device engages an upper layer of the recovered excess coating material bed passing over the recovered excess coating material bed support and diverts at least a portion of the upper layer at an adjustable rate into the particulate coating material elevator device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS, Wilhelmus Johannes Jacobus Maria VAN DER STRAATEN, Martinus Johannes Willebrordus VAN ZOELEN, Mathias Marcellus KUIJPERS
  • Publication number: 20200245632
    Abstract: An installation for moulding of three dimensional products from a mass of pumpable foodstuff material includes a pump having at least one pump chamber, a pump drive, and a moulding device including a mould drum, a mould member drive for moving the mould drum along a path, and a mass feed member. The mass feed member has a chamber with an inlet, a discharge mouth facing the mould member at the fill position along the path of the mould drum, an orificed grinder body and multiple mobile grinder members each arranged at one of the distinct positions of the mold cavities and cooperating with the grinding face of the orificed grinder body. The installation is advantageously employed for the manufacture of meat products from a pumpable meat mass for the manufacture of meat patties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Geert Johannes LOK, Mathias Marcellus KUIJPERS, Thomas Willem DEKKER, Johannes Martinus MEULENDIJKS
  • Patent number: 10638764
    Abstract: An installation for moulding of three dimensional products from a mass of pumpable foodstuff material includes a pump having at least one pump chamber, a pump drive, and a moulding device including a mould drum, a mould member drive for moving the mould drum along a path, and a mass feed member. The mass feed member has a chamber with an inlet, a discharge mouth facing the mould member at the fill position along the path of the mould drum, an orificed grinder body and multiple mobile grinder members each arranged at one of the distinct positions of the mold cavities and cooperating with the grinding face of the orificed grinder body. The installation is advantageously employed for the manufacture of meat products from a pumpable meat mass for the manufacture of meat patties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MAREL TOWNSEND FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.
    Inventors: Geert Johannes Lok, Mathias Marcellus Kuijpers, Thomas Willem Dekker, Johannes Martinus Meulendijks
  • Publication number: 20160374357
    Abstract: An installation for moulding of three dimensional products from a mass of pumpable foodstuff material, for example from ground meat includes a pump having at least one pump chamber, an inlet, and an outlet for the foodstuff mass, a pump drive, a moulding device including a mould member having multiple mould cavities, and a mould member drive for moving the mould member along a path, the path including a fill position of a mould cavity where mass is filled into a mould cavity and a product release position of a mould cavity where a moulded product is released from the mould cavity, a mass feed member having a chamber with an inlet and a discharge mouth facing the mould member at the fill position along the path of the mould member, the mass feed member being adapted to transfer the foodstuff mass into a mould cavity of the mould member in a corresponding mould cavity filling event that is defined by the moment of first flow of foodstuff mass into the mould cavity and the moment wherein the mould cavity has bee
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: MAREL TOWNSEND FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.
    Inventors: Geert Johannes LOK, Mathias Marcellus KUIJPERS, Thomas Willem Dekker, Johannes Martinus Meulendijks
  • Patent number: 9504263
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (2) for transferring longitudinally supplied elongate food products (4), such as for instance sausages. The sausages are placed here in a recess (10) of a rotatable holder body (9) and subsequently set down in lateral direction. The invention further relates to an assembly (1) of such a transfer device and a feed conveyor (3) for sausages connecting to the transfer device. The invention moreover relates to a method for transferring elongate food products such as sausages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MAREL TOWNSEND FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.
    Inventors: Sigebertus Johannes Jacobus Jozef Meggelaars, Marcus Bernhard Hubert Bontjer, Mathias Marcellus Kuijpers, Frank Johannes Antonius Van Den Heuij
  • Publication number: 20140106654
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (2) for transferring longitudinally supplied elongate food products (4), such as for instance sausages. The sausages are placed here in a recess (10) of a rotatable holder body (9) and subsequently set down in lateral direction. The invention further relates to an assembly (1) of such a transfer device and a feed conveyor (3) for sausages connecting to the transfer device. The invention moreover relates to a method for transferring elongate food products such as sausages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: MAREL TOWNSEND FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.
    Inventors: Sigebertus Johannes Jacobus Jozef Meggelaars, Marcus Bernhard Hubert Bontjer, Mathias Marcellus Kuijpers, Frank Johannes Antonius Van Den Heuij