Patents by Inventor Peter Knodel
Peter Knodel 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).
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Publication number: 20240049732Abstract: A coextrusion head for a food processing machine includes a feed line section having an inner pipe for conducting in the production direction a food mass to be formed into a strand. An inlet end of the inner pipe is connectable to an outlet of a stuffing machine. A housing extends in the production direction from the feed line section and surrounding the inner pipe. A receiving chamber, formed between the inner pipe and the housing, for a casing material to be applied to the strand. The receiving chamber has a housing inlet for the casing material. The feed line section and the housing are integrally embodied and the coextrusion head further includes a die attachment that has a die opening shaped correspondingly to the inner pipe and that is connected to the housing. A food processing machine having a coextrusion head and a corresponding assembly method are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Halis Baris, Peter Knodel, Olaf Grote, Malte Regenhardt
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Publication number: 20230018994Abstract: A cutting machine includes a cutting device and a co-operating conveyor device for conveying food products in a conveying direction. The conveyor device includes at least one conveyor unit having a conveyor belt which is guided by at least one deflection roll and which comes into contact with the food products in the contact area and having at least one guide means for guiding the conveyor belt. The at least one guide means has a first support portion for supporting the conveyor belt at a first height and a second support portion for supporting it at a second height, these heights being spaced apart in a direction extending perpendicularly to the conveying direction, and at least one recess arranged between the first height and the second height, in which the conveyor belt can give way at least partly due to contact with a food product.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Peter Knodel, Peter Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20220361512Abstract: A portioning device is provided for forming portions from elongate casings stuffed with food mass, in particular for forming sausages from alginate casings stuffed with sausage meat. The portioning device includes two circulating conveyor members spaced apart from one another and drivable by at least one drive element, and at least one crimping member arranged on each conveyor member and projecting laterally from the conveyor member. It is proposed that at least one of the crimping members has such a shape, on its functional area that in the conveying area at least partially faces an opposite crimping member, that corrugations, creases and/or folds extending substantially parallel to the conveying direction, in particular, are formed in the constricted portion of the casing, thereby producing a desirable shape for the portions separated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Peter Knodel, Sven Kohler
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Publication number: 20220361513Abstract: A separator is provided for separating portions from elongate casings stuffed with food mass, in particular for separating sausages from alginate casings stuffed with sausage meat. The separator includes two circulating conveyor members spaced apart from one another and drivable by at least one drive element, and at least one crimping member arranged on each conveyor member. It is proposed that the legs of a crimping portion of the crimping members are curved on their side facing an adjacently arranged second crimping member in operation, such that the stuffed casing is first constricted in a constriction region with displacement of the food mass and then severed, producing a desirable shape for the portions separated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventor: Peter Knodel
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Patent number: 11337430Abstract: An apparatus for processing a foodstuff material is provided, specifically for producing sausage products from sausage meat. The apparatus includes a stationary housing which has a wall and which can be connected in fluid-conducting relationship to a conveyor pump, and has a discharge opening for delivery of the foodstuff material. Arranged within the housing is an element for partially swirling the foodstuff material within the housing, which is rotatable relative to the wall and along which in operation at least a partial amount of the foodstuff material to be conveyed flows. The rotatable element ends within the housing before the discharge opening for delivery of the foodstuff material. The apparatus can produce a string with a substantially cylindrical outer contour from a foodstuff material like sausage meat.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbHInventors: Peter Knodel, Mitja Wagner, Fritjof Wesemann, Johann Walger, Oliver Brecht
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Publication number: 20210212328Abstract: An apparatus for processing a foodstuff material is provided, specifically for producing sausage products from sausage meat. The apparatus includes a stationary housing which has a wall and which can be connected in fluid-conducting relationship to a conveyor pump, and has a discharge opening for delivery of the foodstuff material. Arranged within the housing is an element for partially swirling the foodstuff material within the housing, which is rotatable relative to the wall and along which in operation at least a partial amount of the foodstuff material to be conveyed flows. The rotatable element ends within the housing before the discharge opening for delivery of the foodstuff material. The apparatus can produce a string with a substantially cylindrical outer contour from a foodstuff material like sausage meat.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Peter Knodel, Mitja Wagner, Fritjof Wesemann, Johann Walger, Oliver Brecht
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Patent number: 10638766Abstract: Apparatus for orient sausages and methods of orienting sausages. The apparatus has at least one conveyor device with a moveable, in particular circulating, conveyor element on which individual sausages can be placed and transported in a conveyor direction along a path of movement. Two orientation devices are spaced from each other transversely relative to the conveyor direction and which are arranged above the moveable conveyor element, and each having at least one respective guide for laterally guiding the sausages.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: VEMAG MASCHINENBAU GMBHInventors: Peter Knodel, Christoph Thelen, Thorsten Meininger
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Publication number: 20180042248Abstract: Apparatus for orient sausages and methods of orienting sausages. The apparatus has at least one conveyor device with a moveable, in particular circulating, conveyor element on which individual sausages can be placed and transported in a conveyor direction along a path of movement. Two orientation devices are spaced from each other transversely relative to the conveyor direction and which are arranged above the moveable conveyor element, and each having at least one respective guide for laterally guiding the sausages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Peter Knodel, Christoph Thelen, Thorsten Meininger
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Patent number: 8678030Abstract: A filling flow divider for portioning a filling substance includes at least two divider elements operatively connected together, each including a stator having a main chamber, a rotor in the main chamber and rotatable about an axis of rotation, and at least two blade elements fitted into the rotor. The blade elements are independently displaceable relative to the rotor in the radial direction as the rotor rotates in the main chamber. The filling flow divider includes at least two connecting devices coupling the rotors of the at least two divider elements such that the rotor and blade elements of one divider element are disposed at a different rotary angle position as the rotor and blade elements of an adjacent divider element.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbHInventor: Peter Knodel
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Patent number: 8342318Abstract: Suspension devices for suspending strings of sausages in loops. The suspension device may include hooks configured for carrying a loop of the string of sausages and a guide and drive device coupled with the hooks. The guide and drive device is configured for guiding and driving the hooks along a path of movement. The guide and drive device has a drivable circulating drive element for spaced receiving of the hooks and for driving the hooks. The suspension device may include a height-altering device that alters the height of the hooks during the movement of the hooks along the path of movement.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbHInventor: Peter Knodel
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Publication number: 20120231714Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus (1) for suspending sausage strings in loops (2), comprising a guide and drive device for guiding and driving hooks (8) along a path of movement, which has a drivable circulating drive element for spacedly receiving and for driving a plurality of hooks (8), and a plurality of hooks (8) which can be coupled to the drive element for carrying a loop (2) of the sausage string. The apparatus has a catch device (10) for catching a loop (2), which is arranged beneath and substantially radially outside the path of movement of the hooks. The invention further concerns a method of feeding sausage strings to an apparatus and a catch device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: VEMAG MASCHINENBAU GMBHInventors: Harry Krompholz, Peter Knodel, Jörg Bilowski
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Publication number: 20110130082Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for suspending strings of sausages in loops, the apparatus including a guide and drive device for guiding and driving hooks along a path of movement. The guide and drive device includes a drivable circulating drive element for spaced receiving and driving a plurality of hooks. The apparatus also includes a plurality of hooks which can be coupled to the drive element for carrying a loop of the string of sausages. The apparatus further includes a fixing device for steplessly fixing the hooks at various spacing relative to each other on the drive element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: VEMAG MASCHINENBAU GMBHInventor: Peter Knodel
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Publication number: 20110108391Abstract: Suspension devices for suspending strings of sausages in loops. The suspension device may include hooks configured for carrying a loop of the string of sausages and a guide and drive device coupled with the hooks. The guide and drive device is configured for guiding and driving the hooks along a path of movement. The guide and drive device has a drivable circulating drive element for spaced receiving of the hooks and for driving the hooks. The suspension device may include a height-altering device that alters the height of the hooks during the movement of the hooks along the path of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: VEMAG MASCHINENBAU GMBHInventor: Peter Knodel
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Publication number: 20110079304Abstract: A filling flow divider for portioning a filling substance includes at least two divider elements operatively connected together, each including a stator having a main chamber, a rotor in the main chamber and rotatable about an axis of rotation, and at least two blade elements fitted into the rotor. The blade elements are independently displaceable relative to the rotor in the radial direction as the rotor rotates in the main chamber. The filling flow divider includes at least two connecting devices coupling the rotors of the at least two divider elements such that the rotor and blade elements of one divider element are disposed at a different rotary angle position as the rotor and blade elements of an adjacent divider element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: VEMAG MASCHINENBAU GMBHInventor: Peter Knodel
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Publication number: 20090090228Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for allocating packaging material, in particular paper, to apportioned foods, having these steps: delivery of portions of a food onto a first conveyor belt, delivery and allocation of packaging material to the portions, characterized in that the packaging material is fed to the first conveyor belt and allocated to the portions without first being cut, and that the packaging material is then cut between two portions. The invention also relates to a corresponding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbHInventors: Frank Weller, Peter Knodel, Heiko Walter