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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1988
Timothy G Mally, Oregon, WI (US);
Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are provided for shaping bacon bellies or similar generally compressible materials in order to impart a greater three-dimensional uniformity to such bacon bellies or the like. Parameters of individual bellies, including dimensional parameters and temperature when desired are determined. Data on these parameters are stored in an ordered fashion, which stored data are utilized to vary the extent that walls of a pressing apparatus move during a pressing operation. By this method and apparatus, each individual belly or the like is pressed and reshaped in accordance with its own specific parameters, while provision is made for avoiding overpressing due to irregularities in shape of the bacon bellies and the like.