Bacon And Franks Packaging Patents (Class 53/DIG1)
  • Patent number: 5117717
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for the slicing of bacon bellies or the like in a manner such that each draft of bacon is of the same weight, irrespective of the topography and density of the belly from which the draft is sliced. A dimensioner assembly has a plurality of pivotally mounted fingers having one end which engages the belly and another end which is a cam surface for transmitting movement of the fingers to a receptor such as an electromicrometer. The finges engage the top, bottom and both longitudinal sides of the belly, and the data thus collected are then transformed into a topography schematic which is particular for each specific belly passing through the dimensioner assembly. These topography data and data concerning the make-up of the particular belly are used for controlling movement of feed into a bacon slicer. Included is a feed assembly which positively and precisely feeds the belly into the slicer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy G. Mally
  • Patent number: 4894976
    Abstract: An automotive slicing machine includes a circuit for monitoring the operation of a card dispenser during the processing of a sliced product. In one embodiment, when the monitoring circuit detects that a card dispensing operation has not been performed for two consecutive drafts of a sliced product, the slicing operation is halted until an operator attends to the problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: AMCA International Corporation
    Inventors: Gary L. Wallace, Robert K. Moore, Richard L. Beckner
  • Patent number: 4599849
    Abstract: Method and machine for packing bacon bundles in blister packages. Bacon bundles (2) are placed in the blister package (15) by a lifting arm (17) having rotatable rods (21) and transversally extending tines (22). The rods (21) are rotatable over 90.degree.. The distance between the outer tines is slightly smaller than the length of the blister package. If the bacon bundle is too long it will depend over the outer tine and the depending portion (24) will automatically be double folded at the positioning of the bacon bundle in the blister package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Svenska AB Ivers Lee
    Inventor: Rene Lundstrom
  • Patent number: 4586632
    Abstract: A paper strip dispenser unit is disposed below a food slice receiving surface of food slicing machine. The dispenser is in the form of an elongate container having an upturned open side of which the stack of paper is fanned out to enable individual strips of paper to be withdrawn over the surface to receive sliced food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Inventor: Fritz Kuchler
  • Patent number: 4534548
    Abstract: The invention provides a bacon slicing machine which synchronizes the cutting and laying of bacon on a reception plate with a sheet of non adherent material layed between two successive cut slices of bacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Inventor: Fernand Hanau
  • Patent number: 4452031
    Abstract: A cardboard sheet dispenser is incorporated in a bacon slicing machine line that is operable to group slices in shingled fashion and into segregated batches of predetermined weight. The dispenser directs a cardboard sheet in synchronization with the movement of the batches so that individual batches are placed on a sheet and thereafter transferred to subsequent packaging stations. The dispenser includes a hopper for receiving vertically stacked cardboard sheets and includes a base having a plurality of strippers serving to support the stack of sheets while assuring that only one sheet at a time is removed from the hopper. A pick-off assembly operates to remove the lowermost sheet from the hopper and transfer it to the nip of a roller assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Cashin Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Edmund G. Dennis, C. Edward Brandmaier
  • Patent number: 4372097
    Abstract: An improved method of making and filling a package for containing a slab of sliced commestible product disposed in overlapping array, the package including a backing board having rounded and upwardly disposed corners with a smooth radius and lateral edges all of which are covered by the overlapping array of sliced commestible, and a film of transparent flexible material snugly enclosing the backing board and the overlapping array of sliced commestible product with the overlapping array of sliced commestible product interveningly cooperating with the lateral edges and rounded corners of the backing board to prevent puncturing of the film by the lateral edges and upwardly extending rounded corners of the backing board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1983
    Assignee: TEC, Inc.
    Inventor: Thor Wyslotsky
  • Patent number: 4342182
    Abstract: A card having a product thereon is fed by a conveyor into a card folding device. This involves the use of an air jet located below the conveyor, which is activated and causes the leading portion of the card as it passes thereover to go into an upright position approximately perpendicular to the conveyor. While in this position, the conveyor causes the card to be fed into fingers located above the conveyor which complete the fold rearwardly. While still under the influence of the fingers, the leading edge, or fold line, of the now folded card is fed into a creaser. At this point, a switch is tripped which raises a stop-bar which stops the card. A reciprocal plunger is now activated and is used to crease the leading edge by exerting downward pressure thereon against the stop-bar. Once creasing is completed, the stop-bar and plunger retract allowing the conveyor to take the card and product to the next packaging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1982
    Assignee: Cashin Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Edmund G. Dennis, C. Edward Brandmaier
  • Patent number: 4328657
    Abstract: A cardboard sheet dispenser is incorporated in a bacon or pork product slicing machine line that is operable to group slices in shingled fashion into segregated batches of predetermined weight. The dispenser directs a cardboard sheet in synchronized fashion with the movement of the batches so that individual batches are placed on a sheet and thereafter transferred to subsequent packaging stations. The dispenser includes a hopper for receiving vertically stacked cardboard sheets and is provided with a plurality of restrainers that cooperate in supporting the stack of sheets and at the same time fan the sheets to minimize sticking of the sheets one to the other. The base of the hopper includes a plurality of strippers also serving to support the stack of sheets and assures that only one sheet is removed from the base of the hopper at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: Cashin Systems Corp.
    Inventors: C. Edward Brandmaier, Edmund G. Dennis
  • Patent number: 4003184
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for packaging sliced bacon and the like comprises placing a shingle of bacon strips on a tray formed of a unitary sheet of thin, semi-rigid, impervious plastic material having an integral flap along one side, heating said material along a fold line between the flap and tray, folding the integral flap over an edge portion of the shingle of sliced bacon on the tray, and applying a permanent set to the folded flap to permanently overlie said edge portion of said shingle of bacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Inventor: Thomas B. Shiu