A22C 11/10
Apparatus for twisting or linking sausages
Official title: Apparatus for twisting {or linking} sausages {(subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages, involving displacement of contents B65B9/12, by applying pressure and heat successively B65B51/26)}
A22C11/10 (Apparatus for twisting or linking sausages) appears on 148 US grants and 73 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 73
- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 197
- Latest grant
- 13 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Portioning device with crimping member, and associated portioning method13 Jan 2026US 12,520,851 B2VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH
- System and method for sausage link maker23 Dec 2025US 12,501,910 B1
- Four clip clipping machine9 Dec 2025US 12,490,746 B2Poly-clip System GmbH & Co. KG
- Separator with crimping member for separating portions from elongate casings stuffed with food mass, and associated methods27 May 2025US 12,310,374 B2VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH
- Method and apparatus for twist linking tubular casings and associated system for stuffing tubular casings11 Feb 2025US 12,219,964 B2VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH
- Apparatus and Method for Manufacturing Sausages13 Aug 2026US 2026/0231964 A1Freddy Hirsch Group AG
- Machine For Forming And Closing Stuffed Meat Products30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114461 A1
- Method of and system for forming sausage links from continuous product feed9 Oct 2025US 2025/0311738 A1Risco USA Corporation
- Method and device for providing cased portions of pasty food mass19 Jun 2025US 2025/0194611 A1VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH
- Method and device for providing cased portions of pasty food mass19 Jun 2025US 2025/0194612 A1VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Clipping apparatus91US 4,675,945 ATipper Tie, Inc. · 1987
- Mechanism for control of gathering plates for a double clipper apparatus54US 5,167,567 ADelaware Capital Formation, Inc. · 1992
- Method of and apparatus for making link sausages40US 4,112,546 AFirma Albert Handtmann · 1978
- Apparatus for manufacturing a chain of linked food products38US 5,480,346 AHitec Co., Ltd. · 1996
- Method and apparatus for dividing into individual sausages a continuous sausage strand provenient from a filling machine36US 5,049,108 AAlbert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG · 1991