Alkar-rapidpak, Inc.

Alkar-rapidpak-mp Equipment, Inc.

Jerome P Lehman

Dennis Conohan

Andi J Mikelsons

Noel R Johnson

David C Nordby

Seth T Pulsfus

Steve O Schultz

Luke A Titel

A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial to parallel loading station delivery system is provided. The food product is loaded onto a conveyor in the processing chamber having a plurality of two-piece food product cradles having openings receiving the food product at the loading station and discharging the food product at the unloading station and having gaps between food product carriers distally oppositely spaced from the openings and defining food product cavities therebetween, the width of the openings varying during traversal of the conveyor through the chamber from the loading to the unloading stations.

Food processing apparatus and method

Food product carrier

A loading system is provided for loading an elongated strand of food product of given diameter on a moving transport conveyor. First and second loading conveyors are separated by a gap of dimension less than or equal to the diameter of the food product strand and convey the strand to a transfer ramp by an indexed drive.

Loading system for elongated strand of food product

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Madison, WI, United States of America

Jerome P Lehman