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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1990
William R Wright, Overland Park, KS (US);
Richard G Powers, Overland Park, KS (US);
Wendell E Dennis, Overland Park, KS (US);
James E Anderson, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Kevin F Cooper, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Marlen Research Corporation, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Apparatus (20) for successively supplying substantially equal portions of a flowable comminuted product such as sausage from a source thereof to a delivery zone is disclosed wherein dual product portioning chambers (80, 88, 82, 90) are provided which function such that as meat to be portioned is directed into a first chamber which increases in volume to a predetermined extent, portioned meat is delivered from the other chamber as it decreases in volume to the same predetermined extent. Means (114) is provided externally of the chambers for substantially equalizing the increase and decrease of the effective product-receiving volume of each of the chambers.