US Patent Issued to RISCO USA on Nov. 3 for "Method of and system for forming sausage links from continuous product feed" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,146, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RISCO USA Corp. (South Easton, Mass.).

"Method of and system for forming sausage links from continuous product feed" was invented by Alan G. Miller (South Easton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a mechanical system for portioning a sausage string by forming links while continuously feeding the sausage string through the portioning apparatus. The portioning apparatus includes pincers that rotate and interleave for a portion of the rotation and apply pressure while interleaved to the sausage string thereby forming a link. The pincers face substantially towards e...