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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1978
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1977
Wayne L Covington, Ontario, OR (US);
Glen R Green, Ontario, OR (US);
Ore-Ida Foods, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Chopped or ground sausage meat or like material is extruded as a continuous column into the path of action of a set of wipers which individually sweep across different fractional portions of the extrusion opening, thereby tearing respective random size chunks of material from the column being extruded. The chunks are primarily useful as pizza topping and may be frozen and stored for that purpose. The set of wipers is preferably provided as a plurality of radial arms rotatably mounted at intervals about a common axis and offset laterally from one another, so that free extremities of the arms act as tearing fingers as they sweep past respective fractional portions of the extrusion opening.