Archie R Mcfarland84 High Country Rd, Riverton, UT 84065

6413073, Jul 2, 2002

Jun 26, 2001

09/892375

Archie Rae McFarland - Herriman UT

Diamond Stainless, Inc. - Draper UT

A22C 700

425382R, 425464, 426 92, 426513, 426516, 426646

The disclosed invention includes extrusion apparatus, wherein and by which ground meat replicates selected cuts of natural, unground meat. A ground meat product substantially free of bone and heavy tissue is extruded through a die having a perforated area extending sidewise of the die and constituting at least one row of a series of elongate openings extending closely end-to-end along the perforated area in preferably multilayer rows, the openings of the outer layers of which preferably intercommunicate end-to-end, or even interconnected end-to-end so that a continuous ribbon-shaped, stranded, intermediate product is extruded and may be cut transversely to make final, stranded meat products, both intermediate and final products being preferably enclosed substantially peripherally by an envelope of side by side, substantially merged, longitudinal strands of ground meat that substantially replicates a cut of natural, unground meat.

3992985, Nov 23, 1976

Sep 15, 1975

5/613084

Archie Rae McFarland - Salt Lake City UT

Beehive Machinery Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

A22C 500
B01F 708

99478

Conveyor screws located in side-by-side relationship on fixed, substantially horizontal axes at the bottom of a closed vessel are adapted to be rotated to provide mixing action. Means are provided for continuously supplying the vessel with meat material and with carbon dioxide. There is a discharge outlet in alignment with one of the conveyor screws, so mixed material will be continuously discharged from the vessel.

5603972, Feb 18, 1997

May 8, 1995

8/436742

Archie R. McFarland - Herriman UT

A23L 300
A61L 200

426240

Material to be irradiated is passed through the irradiation zone of an ionizing electron beam diode accelerator in thin sheet form that is not more than about one-half an inch in thickness and preferably in close contact with the anode of such accelerator. The thin sheet may be flat or tubular, depending upon the type of accelerator utilized.

5580305, Dec 3, 1996

Jun 2, 1995

8/460651

Archie R. McFarland - Herriman UT

B02C 1922
A22C 1700

452138

A machine for segregating meat from bone, heavy tissue, and skin and having a material conveying screw mounted for rotation within a perforated conduit serving as a screen through which the meat is extruded as the bone, heavy tissue, and skin are conveyed toward the discharge end of the machine, is provided with a cutter ring with a cutting face against which the bone, heavy tissue, and skin are projected and cut before discharge. The conveying screw is preferably a cutter screw having a spiral flight which bears against the inside of the screen and contacts the margins of the perforations of the screen in a close cutting action as the screw rotates. Feeding cut meat and bone into the machine and operating the machine constitutes the method of the invention.

5507689, Apr 16, 1996

Aug 22, 1994

8/292966

Archie P. McFarland - Salt Lake City UT
Sigurd Richartz - Lubeck, DE

Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH & Co. KG - Lubeck

A22C 1700

452138

A method for gaining the remaining meat from the bones of cutlet strings or racks and a separating apparatus for carrying out this method are described. The separating apparatus essentially comprises a hollow drum (1) having a perforated outer surface (7), on which a compression belt (2) partially wrapped around said drum (1) is held under pressure. The hollow drum (1) includes a groove (8) in its central region which extends radially and around said drum and comprises perforated limiting faces. The cross-section of the groove (8) essentially corresponds to that of the bone string to be processed.

4049684, Sep 20, 1977

Sep 8, 1975

5/611314

Archie Rae McFarland - Sandy UT

Beehive Machinery Inc. - Sandy UT

C11B 106

260412

Raw or partially cooked animal skins containing fats and oils from which the surface hair has been removed are ground into particles and fed into the end of a perforated conduit that has a conveyor screw therein which progressively decreases in conveying capacity from the feed end of the conduit to an imperforate discharge end thereof. Without the application of heat, the skin particles are compacted within the imperforate discharge end of the conduit by an extension of the conveyor screw prior to discharge following buildup and conveyance along the interior surface of the imperforate portion of the conduit through which edible fats and oils are forced toward and through the perforations of the conduit to provide a substantially fat free animal skin. The discharge passage surrounding the extension of the conveyor screw can be varied in size preferably by a tapered ring that is movable back and forth axially of the conveyor screw extension, and preferably the spacing between the conveyor screw and conduit is variable. The forward faces of the conveyor screw flights are preferably concave to provide a forwardly projecting circumferential overhang that tends to keep the particles of skin near the axis of the screw, and the conduit wall thickness is unusually thick so as to withstand high pressures.

6086352, Jul 11, 2000

Nov 24, 1998

9/198749

Archie Rae McFarland - Herriman UT

B29C 4712

4251311

Apparatus for extruding composite products, especially food products such as simulated bacon slabs having components representing meat and fat, respectively, that replicate the random pattern of natural bacon slabs. The apparatus has an extrusion die member which, in some embodiments, is rotatably mounted for manual or motorized movement from one selected position of adjustability to another selected position of adjustability about a substantially circular path of adjustability that is preferably visually indexed to indicate the extent of any positional adjustment of the extrusion die from time-to-time. The apparatus may include a standard sausage stuffing machine for controlling movement of the extrusion die. In all embodiments of the die, it is independent of the apparatus in which it is adapted to be installed so as to be easily removable and replaceable relative to such apparatus, but need not be rotatable. In one embodiment of the die, a plurality of elongate extrusion conduits are spaced apart in spiral formation to provide an extruded natural food product having spiral layers of different food materials, such as synthetic pork belly bacon having fat and flesh layers of chicken or turkey white meat and dark meat, respectively.

4566640, Jan 28, 1986

Jan 18, 1984

6/572155

Archie R. McFarland - Salt Lake City UT
Bruce L. Preece - Taylor UT

Beehive Machinery, Inc. - Sandy UT

B02C 1912
B02C 1922

241 74

The disclosed machine is adapted to separate meat and other soft components from bone and other relatively hard components of meat, fish and other food materials, pieces of which are dumped into a hopper containing a pair of overlapping, oppositely rotating left and right hand feed screws for feeding the pieces into overlapping pump bores in a pump casing. The pump bores are provided with oppositely rotating left and right hand pump screws for pumping the pieces along the bores to develop pumping pressure, whereby the pieces are forced into a hollow separator casing having a tubular tapering separator screen with a multiplicity of perforations therein. A tapered pressure auger is rotatable in the screen for pressing meat and other soft components through the perforations while transporting bone and other hard components past the screen to a discharge device for discharging the hard components while maintaining pressure in the separator casing. The discharge device may grind up the hard components and discharge through a restricted annular orifice. The machine may include a pair of oppositely rotating, closely spaced disjointer screws of the same hand, disposed ahead of the feed screws, for disjointing neck bones and the like, while supplying the disjointed bones to the feed screws.