Ground meat patty forming machine

• US 3,137,029 A
• Filed: 12/20/1960
• Issued: 06/16/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: De Zolt Fern A
• Original Assignee: De Zolt Fern A
• Inventors: DE ZOLT FERN A
• Application Number:
  US04/077,255
• Time in Patent Office: 1,274 Days
• US Class Current: 425/218
• CPC Class Codes: A22C 7/00 Apparatus for pounding, forming, or pressing meat, sausage-meat, or meat products meat patty moulding devices for domestic use A47J43/20; ham boilers A47J27/20
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 25/08 between layers or strips of sheet or web material, e.g. in webs folded to zig-zag form
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 100/907 Rotary

Claims

1. A PATTY-FORMING MACHINE COMPRISING A MOLDING WHEEL ROTATABLE IN AN UPRIGHT PLANE AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF MOLD CAVITIES FORMED IN A CIRCULAR PERIPHERAL PORTION THEREOF, MEANS DISPOSED BESIDE SAID PERIPHERAL PORTION FOR CHARGING SAID MOLD CAVITIES WITH MATERIAL TO BE FORMED INTO PATTIES, MEANS INCLUDING BOTTOM FORMING MEANS FOR SAID MOLD CAVITIES RECIPROCABLE THEREIN TO EJECT FORMED PATTIES FROM SAID CAVITIES, CAM MEANS TO RECIPROCATE SAID RECIPROCABLE MEANS IN ONE DIRECTION, MEANS FOR BIASING SAID RECIPROCABLE MEANS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, AND MEANS FOR RELEASABLY SECURING SAID RECIPROCABLE MEANS IN AN INOPERATIVE POSITION AT THE LIMIT OF THE EJECTING STROKE THERE-