Methods for operating clipping packaging apparatus
AssigneeTipper Tie, Inc.
InventorsSamuel D. Griggs, Dennis J. May, David T. Wince, William M. Poteat, Derek L. Brown
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Abstract
Methods, devices and computer program products automatically package an object in a covering material such as casing and/or netting by: (a) automatically pushing at least one object through a product chute; (b) pulling a covering material upstream of the product chute off an exterior surface of the product chute to automatically enclose the object in the covering material as the object exits the product chute; and (c) applying a clip to the covering material to secure the object in the packing material.
Claims10
A method of pushing a single meat object through a netting chute, comprising:
- piercing a target meat object with a pin extending from a pusher head;
- contacting an outer surface of the target meat object with the pusher head;
- automatically pushing the target meat object with the pusher head through a netting chute using at least one reciprocally-acting actuation cylinder operably connected to the pusher head;
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- enclosing the target meat object in netting pulled off the netting chute in response to the automatically pushing step as the target meat object exits the netting chute.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.