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US 8,540,554 B2Granted
Meat processing assembly
AssigneeStork Townsend Inc.
InventorAndrew W. Maddux
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Abstract
An improved processing assembly having a meat emulsion pump connected to a stuffing horn. The stuffing horn positioned to fill casings with meat emulsion which form a strand of processed meat that is received by a twister, then a linker, and subsequently deposited on a conveyor.
Claims8
A meat emulsion pump, comprising:
- a drive shaft and an idler shaft extending through bores in a housing;
- a first gear lock threadably attached to the drive shaft and a second gear lock threadably attached to the idler shaft wherein the gear locks have a head with a plurality of protrusions that extend outwardly from a central axis of the gear lock;
- a channel below the head that separates the head from a body of the gear lock;
- and a stem extending from the body;
- and
- a pair of gears having a bore that fits over the shafts and are received partially in the channel of the gear locks such that when the gear locks are rotated to move away from the shafts the gear locks vertically move the gears.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.