Patents by Inventor Siegfried Reutter

Siegfried Reutter 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: 10834931
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hanging device, a smoke bar top module as well as a method for extracting a sausage group that hangs on multiple hanging hooks of a hanging device. The hanging hooks have a device for guiding a smoke bar or a smoke bar top module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Florian Osswald, Siegfried Reutter, Gerhard Mueller, Gerhard Schliesser, Jochen Merk
  • Patent number: 10834954
    Abstract: Device for forming and dividing of at least one string-shaped pasty foodstuff into slice-shaped products, with a forming nozzle for extruding the string-shaped foodstuff along a conveying direction through a nozzle opening, which determines the thickness of the slice-shaped product, at least one forming plate that is arranged downstream of the forming nozzle and that can be displaced during extrusion with at least one positioning element in at least one component transversally to the conveying direction, and with a control unit that controls the positioning element synchronously to the extrusion velocity in a way that the at least one forming plate forms a longitudinal contour of the slice-shaped product variably during extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Siegfried Reutter, Claudiu Cret, Daniel Teufel, Achim Werner, Peter Willburger, Simon Haid
  • Patent number: 10238123
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for transferring sausage portions with a supply transport device, at least one removal transport device, and at least one ejector for ejecting at least one sausage portion from the supply transport device onto the removal transport device. The removal transport device comprises a lower transport device and a holding device disposed thereabove between which the at least one sausage portion is transported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Willburger, Michael Heim, Siegfried Reutter, Thomas Fischer
  • Publication number: 20180125082
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hanging device, a smoke bar top module as well as a method for extracting a sausage group that hangs on multiple hanging hooks of a hanging device. The hanging hooks have a device for guiding a smoke bar or a smoke bar top module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Manfred BAECHTLE, Florian OSSWALD, Siegfried REUTTER, Gerhard MUELLER, Gerhard SCHLIESSER, Jochen MERK
  • Publication number: 20180064158
    Abstract: Device for forming and dividing of at least one string-shaped pasty foodstuff into slice-shaped products, with a forming nozzle for extruding the string-shaped foodstuff along a conveying direction through a nozzle opening, which determines the thickness of the slice-shaped product, at least one forming plate that is arranged downstream of the forming nozzle and that can be displaced during extrusion with at least one positioning element in at least one component transversally to the conveying direction, and with a control unit that controls the positioning element synchronously to the extrusion velocity in a way that the at least one forming plate forms a longitudinal contour of the slice-shaped product variably during extrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Manfred BAECHTLE, Siegfried REUTTER, Claudiu CRET, Daniel TEUFEL, Achim WERNER, Peter WILLBURGER, Simon HAID
  • Patent number: 9433221
    Abstract: A method for producing a foodstuff, in particular sausages, produced by coextrusion, including extruding a paste mass, coextruding a casing, and where a bonding agent is fed between paste mass and coextruded casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Bächtle, Armin Buechele, Siegfried Reutter, Markus Schliesser
  • Publication number: 20160143300
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for transferring sausage portions with a supply transport device, at least one removal transport device, and at least one ejector for ejecting at least one sausage portion from the supply transport device onto the removal transport device. The removal transport device comprises a lower transport device and a holding device disposed thereabove between which the at least one sausage portion is transported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Willburger, Michael Heim, Siegfried Reutter, Thomas Fischer
  • Patent number: 9185917
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for the manufacture of sausages. In one example, a method for manufacturing sausages with a filling machine comprises ejecting a mass through a filling tube into a sausage casing ruffled on the filling tube, and exerting a brake force on the sausage casing via a sausage casing brake on a braking area of a brake ring pressing onto the sausage casing, wherein the braking area extends around a longitudinal axis of the filling tube such that the braking area presses onto a part, and not the entirety, of a circumference of the sausage casing in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and wherein the brake force is distributed in a direction along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Juergen Flach, Michael Hammerer, Wolfgang Pfender, Gerhard Schliesser, Siegfried Reutter, Juergen Rechsteiner
  • Patent number: 9095148
    Abstract: A device and a method of manufacturing and filling up product in the form of fine sausage meat, in particular an emulsion, with a feed means for the product, a feed pump for transporting the product, at least one downstream fine mincer as well as a filling and/or portioning means arranged downstream of the fine mincer for filling up the produced fine sausage meat or the emulsion, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Braig, Manfred Baechtle, Siegfried Reutter, Gerhard Mueller
  • Publication number: 20150208675
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for the manufacture of sausages. In one example, a method for manufacturing sausages with a filling machine comprises ejecting a mass through a filling tube into a sausage casing ruffled on the filling tube, and exerting a brake force on the sausage casing via a sausage casing brake on a braking area of a brake ring pressing onto the sausage casing, wherein the braking area extends around a longitudinal axis of the filling tube such that the braking area presses onto a part, and not the entirety, of a circumference of the sausage casing in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and wherein the brake force is distributed in a direction along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Juergen Flach, Michael Hammerer, Wolfgang Pfender, Gerhard Schliesser, Siegfried Reutter, Juergen Rechsteiner
  • Patent number: 8997614
    Abstract: A method and a device for separating food products, including to permit a straight cut at high cycle rates, the food product is conveyed by a conveying device in the direction of transport. The food product is cut through, where a cutting element is moved in the direction of transport and transverse to the direction of transport, wherein the motion of the cutting element transverse to the direction of transport is controlled independently of its motion in the direction of transport and the food product does not rest on the cutting area on the conveying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Wolfgang Braig, Siegfried Reutter, Bernd Romer, Klaus Schmid, Daniel Teufel
  • Publication number: 20140170945
    Abstract: A method for producing a foodstuff, in particular sausages, produced by coextrusion, including extruding a paste mass, coextruding a casing, and where a bonding agent is fed between paste mass and coextruded casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Bächtle, Armin Buechele, Siegfried Reutter, Markus Schliesser
  • Publication number: 20110248105
    Abstract: A device and a method of manufacturing and filling up product in the form of fine sausage meat, in particular an emulsion, with a feed means for the product, a feed pump for transporting the product, at least one downstream fine mincer as well as a filling and/or portioning means arranged downstream of the fine mincer for filling up the produced fine sausage meat or the emulsion, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Braig, Manfred Baechtle, Siegfried Reutter, Gerhard Mueller
  • Patent number: 7762874
    Abstract: A shaping device and a method of forming rounded tips on the ends of sausages and of tying off and/or parting into individual portions a continuously produced sausage skein filled with paste material, with two oppositely located displacement assemblies, which move towards one another and between which the filled sausage skein can be moved in the transport direction, wherein the displacement assemblies are formed such that two opening sections are formed, which widen out in the transport direction, respectively opposite the transport direction, in a tying off and/or parting position between the two displacement assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Albert H. Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Schlieber, Siegfried Reutter, Franz Muller, Manfred Bachtle
  • Patent number: 7628345
    Abstract: A meat mincing machine and a method of producing minced foodstuffs, in particular minced meat, with an inlet, at least one blade on a following perforated disc, as well as with a separating device for separating and drawing off hard constituents wherein, to improve the weight accuracy, it has a device for the determination of the drawn-off amount of separated product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Schmid, Siegfried Reutter, Manfred Baechtle, Wolfgang Braig
  • Patent number: 7591717
    Abstract: A device and a method for the manufacture of sausages from paste mass, in particular sausage meat, with a coextrusion head for coextruding the paste mass and a sausage casing, wherein the coextrusion head comprises a filling tube for the ejection of the paste mass as well as an extrusion die assigned to the filling tube with an extrusion gap for ejecting the easing material. In order to produce strong sausage casings, the filling tube protrudes by a distance X beyond the annular gap so that the casing material is extruded through the annular gap onto the filling tube and solidifies along the filling tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenf Abrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Bächtle, Siegfried Reutter, Markus Schliesser
  • Publication number: 20090023373
    Abstract: A device and a method for the manufacture of sausages from paste mass, in particular sausage meat, with a coextrusion head for coextruding the paste mass and a sausage casing, wherein the coextrusion head comprises a filling tube for the ejection of the paste mass as well as an extrusion die assigned to the filling tube with an extrusion gap for ejecting the casing material. In order to produce strong sausage casings, the filling tube protrudes by a distance X beyond the annular gap so that the casing material is extruded through the annular gap onto the filling tube and solidifies along the filling tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Bachtle, Siegfried Reutter, Markus Schilesser
  • Publication number: 20080035767
    Abstract: A meat mincing machine and a method of producing minced foodstuffs, in particular minced meat, with an inlet, at least one blade on a following perforated disc, as well as with a separating device for separating and drawing off hard constituents wherein, to improve the weight accuracy, it has a device for the determination of the drawn-off amount of separated product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Schmid, Siegfried Reutter, Manfred Baechtle, Wolfgang Braig
  • Patent number: 7258604
    Abstract: In order to be able to accept single sausage portions after leaving the filling machine and to be able to deposit them in an ordered manner with respect to quantity and position, an acceleration device for accepting the sausage portions from a filling machine in a row and for conveying them further, and a transfer device for pushing the single sausage portions sideways from the acceleration device at defined positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Albert H. Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Siegfried Reutter
  • Patent number: 7244171
    Abstract: A device for producing sausages having at least two coextrusion heads for co-extruding strands of sausage meat which are encased with a casing material, a joint supply is provided for the sausage meat and/or a joint supply is provided for the casing material, each being connected via individual supply elements to the coextrusion heads. The device permits producing exact products where at least the supply means for the casing material and/or the associated supply elements regulating/controlling the volume and/or the pressure of the casting material flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Müller, Siegfried Reutter, Manfred Bachtle