Townsend Engineering Company

Marcel F Ottow

Brent M Veldkamp

Vincent L Basile, Ii

A horizontal conveyor for linked sausage strands has a frame ( ) having a horizontal operating platform ( ) with opposite first ( ) and second ends ( ), opposite sides, a top surface ( ), and a continuous perimeter wall ( ) extending along the sides and first and second ends. The perimeter wall ( ) is substantially semi-circular at the first end ( ); and has a substantially parallel side portions at a midsection; and has end portions that converge towards each other from the side portions to meet at a semi-circular end portion ( A) at the second end ( ). A channel ( ) is located in the top portion in uniform inwardly spaced relation to the perimeter wall, and a continuous conveyor chain ( ) is in the channel. A plurality of spaced hook members ( ) are secured to the conveyor chain and have a shank ( ) slidably engaging the top of the perimeter wall, and a hook portion extends downwardly and outwardly with respect to the perimeter wall. The semi-circular end portion of the second end ( ) of the platform comprises a sausage loading station and has a diameter less than the distance between the side portions of the perimeter wall so that the hook portions of the hook members sliding over such end portion will travel at a speed greater than the speed of the hook members sliding over the side portions of the perimeter wall.

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Rosmalen, Netherlands

Marcel F Ottow