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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1979
Gerald J Orlowski, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Thomas Dugle, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Armour and Company, Phoeniz, AZ (US);
Abstract
A portable cage for compressing food articles during processing of the articles as by heating, smoking or the like. The cage includes means for moving a pair of trays toward each other to apply pressure on food articles between the trays and means for limiting the pressure so applied to a predetermined amount. The device is further capable of applying different predetermined pressures to articles on different trays, the amounts of such predetermined pressures being determined so as to offset the differences of the weights of the articles on the trays to thereby make the total pressures on the food articles on each tray more uniform. The mechanism is easily operable to open and close the cage for loading and unloading of the articles but is capable of developing substantial pressures when the trays are pressed against the food articles. Another feature of the improved cage is the provision of trays having spaced screens with mechanisms between the screens for bringing pressure on the food articles.