Stork Townsend Inc.

Monsanto Technology LLC

Marel Meat Processing Inc.

Andrew W Maddux

Colin Ray Hart

Brent M Veldkamp

Kenneth Leon Lebsack

Joshua W Higgins

Michael S Simpson

Liansuo Xie

Roger A Weyhrich

David J Baitinger

Craig A Smiens

John E Pritchard

Joshua W Taylor

Brian L Hahn

Eric Thompson

Kenneth B Arnote

A seed fulfillment system is an automated system for sorting and delivering different types of seeds from different seed containers to a shipping-container loading system which loads shipping containers with the seeds. The seed fulfillment system includes an intermediary-container handling system which conveys intermediary containers of seeds from a filling system to a shipping-container loading system.

Seed fulfillment system

A mechanized, non-disruptive plant touch, or contact, sensing system for detecting by touch, or contact, the precise location of plants and/or plant stems relative to a machine in motion, and then disengage the plant without significantly affecting the plant's health or development.

Stem sensor

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.

Meat processing assembly

A conveying system that corrects spacing inconsistencies between food products on transport conveyors. Sensor elements are used to determine the position of food products on a first conveyor. Displacement members then move the food products to a slower second conveyor and different locations to correct the position between the food products.

Conveying system for moving food products and method of using the same

Growing community of inventors

West Des Moines, IA, United States of America

Andrew W Maddux