A22B 7/003
Positioning, orienting or supporting carcasses as they are being conveyed
Official title: {Positioning, orienting or supporting carcasses as they are being conveyed (influencing the position of articles during transit by conveyors B65G47/22; during feeding B65G47/14)}
A22B7/003 (Positioning, orienting or supporting carcasses as they are being conveyed) appears on 36 US grants and 35 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 2 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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- Hog carcass configurer7US 6,244,951 B1Hormel Foods Corporation · 2001