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US 4,534,286 AGranted
Ham mold closing apparatus
AssigneeRoscherwerke GmbH
InventorJurgen Franzke
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AssigneeRoscherwerke GmbH
InventorJurgen Franzke
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An apparatus for closing a ham mold, in which at least one two-part mold, consisting of a container and of a cover that fits loosely into it, is positioned in a chamber that can be vacuumized. The cover can be moved in relation to the container in order to compress a ham that has been placed in the mold. The apparatus is equipped with a compression bridge consisting of a strut, compression springs and a securing arm and is positively or non-positively connected to at least one compresion-medium cylinder that is positioned on one wall of the chamber and forces the parts on the mold into one another. A compression beam is positioned in such a way that it can be raised and lowered on two pressure-medium cylinders and that has two points of compression positioned at a distance along the compression-bridge strut and operates non-positively in conjunction with the compression bridge.
In a ham mold closing apparatus having a vacuumizable chamber in which at least one two-part mold consisting of a container having a retaining rim and a cover that fits loosely into it is positioned and means for moving the cover, in relation to the container to compress a ham that has been placed in the mold including a compression bridge having a strut, compression springs, and securing arms coactive with the rim and at least one compression-medium cylinder connected to the compression bridge and that is positioned on one wall of the chamber one into the other, the improvement wherein the moving means further comprises two compression-medium cylinders, a compression beam connected thereto to be raised and lowered by the two pressure-medium cylinders and having two points of compression positioned at a distance along the compression-bridge strut and operating in conjunction with the compression bridge to move the cover in relation to the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.