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Grecian Delight, Inc.

Pure Mediterranean Foods, LLC

Peter Parthenis

Moshe Epstein

Moshe N Epstein

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A device for manufacturing a frusto-conical shaped meat product using mold casing that receives ground meat under pressure. The mold casing has an inner wall, a first lateral end, and a second lateral end. The mold casing has a frusto-conical shape, for forming the meat product into a desired shape and cross section. An end fitting is secured to the discharge end of a meat stuffer. The end fitting includes a plurality of pivotable, flexible, adjacent, partially overlapping fins. The fins pivot as they are moved relative to the mold casing, and in that way maintain contact with the inner wall of the mold casing.

Variable geometry end-fitting for meat stuffer

With the device and method, ground meat is pumped through an elongated discharge tube into a plastic bag at the bottom of a frustoconical-shaped mold casing. The mold casing cooperates with a pneumatic or air inflatable elastic resilient piston that causes the meat being pumped through the discharge tube to be packed tightly down to a desired texture. As more meat is pumped into the bag and mold casing, the piston when inflated has a varying diameter and the mold casing moves axially downward with respect to the resilient piston to allow for more room for meat in the mold casing and bag until a point is reached where the discharge tube along with the inflated piston are forced out of the mold casing by downward movement of the mold casing. Then the meat in the mold casing and the bag are severed and removed from the mold casing whereupon the discharge tube and air inflated piston member is repositioned with respect to the mold casing by having the mold casing moved up to a position where the discharge tube and resilient air inflated position are in their first position so that the cycle can be repeated.

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Inverness, IL, United States of America

Peter Parthenis