US Patent Issued to Hamilton Beach Brands on Oct. 6 for "Meat grinder with funneled feed chute" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,282, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hamilton Beach Brands Inc. (Glen Allen, Va.).

"Meat grinder with funneled feed chute" was invented by Kevin L Leppert (Lanexa, Va.), Ernest B Pryor Jr. (Maidens, Va.) and Michael G Sandford (Mechanicsville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meat grinder includes: a housing; a drive unit mounted in the housing, the drive unit including a motor; a screw conveyor comprising a barrel fixed relative to the housing, and an auger located within the barrel and operatively connected with the motor; a hollow feed chute having upper and lower ends, the lower end mounted on and configured to feed into the...