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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Grzegorz Misiewicz, Wronki, PL;
Kenneth Leon Lebsack, Ankeny, IA (US);
Assignee:
Townsend Engineering Company, Des Moines, IA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C 1/102 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C 1/102 ;
Abstract
A thrust collar for slidably mountable on an elongated hollow stuffing tube of a meat emulsion encasing machine, comprises a main body having a center bore and a radially extending annular flange, and a disk rotatably mounted on a forward end of the main body and having a center bore registering with the center bore on the main body and being adapted to engage an end of the tubular casing on a stuffing tube so that the disk can rotate with respect to the main body.