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Ray T. Townsend — 60 Patents

TETownsend Engineering: 48 patents #1 of 77Top 2%
STStork Townsend: 1 patents #23 of 44Top 55%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Des Moines, IA: #4 of 657 inventorsTop 1%
Iowa: #78 of 15,303 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #38,820 of 4,157,543Top 1%
60 Patents All Time
Ray T. Townsend has been granted 60 US patents while listed as an inventor at Townsend Engineering. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in December 2007. Ray T. Townsend ranks #38,820 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.93%). Patent records list Ray T. Townsend in Des Moines, IA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 1990.peak 81980: 3 patents19801981: 3 patents1982: 2 patents1983: 1 patents19831984: 2 patents1985: 2 patents1986: 4 patents19861987: 5 patents1988: 4 patents1989: 2 patents19891990: 8 patents1991: 4 patents1992: 2 patents19921993: 3 patents1994: 1 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 1 patents1999: 2 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 3 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 60 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7302885 Apparatus for injecting fluid into meat products 2007-12-04
6991340 Indirect viewing device Liansuo Xie 2006-01-31
6955830 Method for injecting fluid into meat products 2005-10-18
6632463 Method and means for injecting fluid into a meat product 2003-10-14
6616521 Method and means for creating a casing on a sausage making machine 2003-09-09
6589108 Tapered blade and holder for a meat skinning machine 2003-07-08
RE37883 Chuck for meat encasing machines 2002-10-15
6357346 Meat skinning machine 2002-03-19
6283846 Method and means for making sausages 2001-09-04
5996481 Injecting fluid into a meat product 1999-12-07
5993868 Method for applying a liquid to the surface of an extruded strand of meat emulsion 1999-11-30
5738004 Means for injecting fluid into a meat product 1998-04-14
5669809 Safety means for powered machinery 1997-09-23
5609519 Method and means of skinning ham chunks 1997-03-11
5279516 Apparatus and method for linking an elongated extruded meat product 1994-01-18
5238442 Method and means for applying liquid to the interior of a casing on a sausage encasing machine 1993-08-24
5199921 Chuck for meat encasing machines 1993-04-06
5183433 Sausage encasing machine having an improved looper horn Vincent L. Basile, II 1993-02-02
5122091 Safety mechanism for meat skinning machines 1992-06-16
5083973 Safety method and means for stopping meat skinning machines 1992-01-28
5025560 Ergonomic knife 1991-06-25
5019012 Encased product and method and apparatus for encasing same David W. Smith, Robert M. Dykes 1991-05-28
5011454 Blade attachment for meat skinning machines 1991-04-30
4996742 Safety method and means for stopping and starting meat skinning machines 1991-03-05
4972547 Encased product and method and apparatus for encasing same David W. Smith, Robert M. Dykes 1990-11-27