Patents by Inventor Rudolph P. Enklaar

Rudolph P. Enklaar 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).

  • Method and means for linking sausage
    Patent number: 5951391
    Abstract: A sausage making machine (10) has a meat pump, (22), a twister with a chuck 30 to rotate a strand of sausage, a linker (32) to create links in the strand of sausage, a conveyor (38) with movable hooks to grasp loops in the sausage strand. Four separate motors (22A, 30A, 32A, 38A) are operatively connected to the pump (22), twister (30), linker (32) and conveyor (38), and the motors (22A, 30A, 32A, 38A) are all connected to and controlled by a computer (44) control having a memory with the operating parameters of the separate components. The method of operation involves imposing the operational parameters on the memory of the computer (44) to permit the computer (44) to control and coordinate the components (22A, 30A, 32A, 38A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Townsend Engineering Company
    Inventors: Steven P. Hergott, Michael S. Simpson, Rudolph P. Enklaar