Apparatus and method for filling containers with a shaped foodstuff product

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11117688
APP PUB NO 20180312281A1
SERIAL NO

15581995

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An infeed chamber or channel 12 receives fish fillets 17 from a conveyor belt 13 of an infeed system 14. A plunger 16 pushes the fish 17 upwardly from the infeed channel 12 into an upper compression chamber 18 which includes one or more cavities or lobes 20 into which the fish is pushed by the plunger 16 thereby to fill the lobes 20. Pistons 28 are advanced into the lobes to eject the formed fish cakes 24 out of the lobes and into container cans 30. The end position of the plunger 16 is monitored and measured, and the control system utilizes this information to operate the feed system wherein the fish fillets 17 are loaded into the infeed chamber. In this manner, the volume of fish 17 loaded into the infeed chamber can be controlled so that at the end of the plunger stroke, only a minimum amount of fish 17 remains within the compression chamber 18, thereby avoiding the residual fish 17 to be compressed more than twice.

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JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES S P AVIA MANTOVA 63/A 43100 PARMA PR

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Bonati, Roberto Sorbolo, IT 1 0
Reggiani, Massimo Bardi, IT 1 0

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