Tyson Foods, Inc.

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Mark Andrew Christie

James Allen Ruff

Dejing Fu

Anthony J Cardarelli

Robert Ty Baublits

Harry Y Chu

Theodore Burnett

A method and apparatus for an extrusion horn including an inner compression chamber having an interior channel extending from an open infeed port to an open exit port, where a top inner surface of the interior channel progressively tapers down with an initial slope having an initial downward taper to a target thickness, then top inner surface abruptly steps to an increased thickness of the channel, and then progressively tapers down with a secondary slope where the secondary slope has a steeper downward taper than the slope of the initial downward taper. An apparatus and method for extruding extrudate through an extruding horn conducive for producing bacon bits and jerky.

Cooking extrusion horn

An apparatus and method for extruding extrudate through an extruding horn having a geometry that allows for a uniform flow from the discharge end into a cooking section that sets the outer surfaces of continuous flow of all meat specie. The technology as disclosed and claimed allows for uniform product thickness throughout the cooking process, increased system throughput, and increased bind in the sheet leading to overall increased product yields. The technology eliminates the need for a meat press ahead of the system to set thickness further reducing yields.

A method and apparatus is provided for curing a food item utilizing a vacuum environmental profile and a temperature environmental profile using convection heating. An apparatus including a closed environmental control system having an internal sealable curing chamber is provided. A vacuum pump can be communicably connected to the internal sealable curing chamber and can be used to create a vacuum in the internal sealable curing chamber. The vacuum pump and internal sealable chamber can maintain the vacuum for a time sufficient to achieve a predetermined moisture content for a selected food item. The technology as disclosed can include a closed heat transfer system directing heated fluid into the internal sealable curing chamber by convection.

Method and apparatus for drying food item

Penetrating the skin of a poultry item with an array of small holes accomplished by using a plurality of circular blades laterally spaced apart and substantially parallel and having a plurality teeth protruding from the edge of the blades and forcibly engaging and penetrating the skin of the poultry item with the plurality of teeth. The plurality of circular blades can have a common axis of rotation and rotating about a shaft extending along the common axis thereby forming a roller of blades.

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Elkins, AR, United States of America

Mark Andrew Christie