A22B 7/001
Conveying arrangements
Official title: {Conveying arrangements}
A22B7/001 (Conveying arrangements) appears on 189 US grants and 164 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 164
- Assignees
- 98
- Inventors
- 307
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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| 2024 | 12 | 7 |
| 2025 | 6 | 14 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A22B 7/002Devices for hanging animal carcasses while being conveyed or stored58
- A22B 7/003Positioning, orienting or supporting carcasses as they are being conveyed36
- A22B 7/006Trolleys or special vehicles for carcass transportation29
- A22B 7/007Means containing information relative to the carcass that can be attached to27
- A22B 7/005Means for transferring carcasses from a conveying unit to a different one22
- A22B 7/004Rails for conveying suspended carcasses12
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for rotating products during processing2 Jun 2026US 12,642,276 B2Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Apparatus for suspending and supporting cuts of meat during processing21 Apr 2026US 12,604,909 B2DuBose Industries, Inc.
- Carcass stabilizing system24 Mar 2026US 12,582,129 B2Equipements Frontmatec Inc.
- Tool having a detectable wireless marker or tag17 Mar 2026US 12,579,395 B2Dexter-Russell, Inc.
- Fish feeding system and method for automatic feeding of fish, in particular salmon species, with defined head-tail orientation and defined belly-back orientation to a fish processing device17 Feb 2026US 12,550,908 B2Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH + Co. KG
- Processing line and method for processing products of the food processing industry and in particular stunned poultry bodies20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240176 A1Baader Poultry Holding GmbH
- Method of stunning pigs using gas and slaughterhouse for slaughtering pigs30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215441 A1Marel Meat A/S
- Gripper, a vision guided robot with such gripper, and a system, method, and computer program for the automated suspension of poultry11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158669 A1Meyn Food Processing Technology B. V.
- Dual waterfall cabinet for food processing applications5 Feb 2026US 2026/0033507 A1Safe Foods Corporation
- A system and method for inspecting poultry slaughter products11 Dec 2025US 2025/0374930 A1Marel Poultry B.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic method and system for tracking the carcass of a slaughtered animal through a processing plant101US 6,231,435 B12001
- Livestock identification system88US 4,597,495 A1986
- Carrying device62US 4,529,240 A1985
- Radio frequency identification device and method of use56US 5,964,656 AMeat Processing Service Corporation · 1999
- Method and apparatus for tracking carcasses56US 6,724,309 B2Excel Corporation · 2004