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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1992
David W Smith, West Des Moines, IA (US);
Theo R Bruinsma, Alphen a/d Rijn, NL;
Townsend Engineering Company, Des Moines, IA (US);
Abstract
A storage rack and linker for an elongated meat strand has a pair of spaced parallel plates with a plurality of elongated parallel bars extending there between. The parallel plates are comprised of two overlapping plate elements, one of which has a series of radially extending slots therein, which overlap some arcuate slots in the other of the plate elements. Each of the bars is equipped with a cutting mechanism which is adapted to engage linked products draped around the parallel bars for severing the linked products from each other at an appropriate time during their creation. Each rack has a drive element on one end and a drive socket on the other so that racks can be nested with each other for rotational purposes, but can easily be removed from each other for storage or transporting purposes.