US 11,304,437 B1Granted

Cooking extrusion horn

OwnerDejing Fu, Kent Bearson +1inventors

InventorsDejing Fu, Kent Bearson, James A. Ruff

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Abstract

A method and apparatus for an extrusion horn including an inner compression chamber having an interior channel extending from an open infeed port to an open exit port, where a top inner surface of the interior channel progressively tapers down with an initial slope having an initial downward taper to a target thickness, then top inner surface abruptly steps to an increased thickness of the channel, and then progressively tapers down with a secondary slope where the secondary slope has a steeper downward taper than the slope of the initial downward taper. An apparatus and method for extruding extrudate through an extruding horn conducive for producing bacon bits and jerky.

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Dependent claims

An extrusion horn comprising:

an upper cooking plate having an upper interior cooking surface and a lower cooking plate having a lower interior cooking surface, where the upper interior cooking surface and the lower interior cooking surface face each other, and where said upper interior cooking surface is proximately space apart from the lower interior cooking surface with a spacing, where the spacing is defined by a spacer extending lengthwise along the upper and lower cooking plates and said spacer positioned between the upper interior cooking surface and the lower interior cooking surface thereby forming a lengthwise interior extrusion channel having an entry opening and an exit opening;
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a conveyor having an endless conveyor belt where one of an upper run of the endless conveyor belt and a lower run of the endless conveyor belt extends lengthwise through the interior extrusion channel and conveys through the lengthwise interior extrusion channel.

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Facts

Application: 16/912,998Filed 26 Jun 2020 · continuation in part
Priority: 12 Feb 2016
Granted: 19 Apr 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

A23P 30/20
Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the process or apparatus: extruding
A22C 7/00
Apparatus for pounding, forming, or pressing meat, sausage-meat, or meat products
A22C 11/0209
Sausage filling or stuffing machines: stuffing horn assembly
B29C 48/06
Characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion: rod-shaped

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Application15/042,689Parent of this division · filed 12 Feb 2016
Application16/532,038Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 5 Aug 2019
US 10,694,773 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 10,368,572 B2Parent of this division
Application16/532,038Parent of this division
US 2017/0231264 A1Published application
US 11,304,437 B1This patent

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