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Steven P. Hergott — 26 Patents

TETownsend Engineering: 21 patents #3 of 77Top 4%
STStork Townsend: 3 patents #9 of 44Top 25%
DIDec International: 1 patents #22 of 60Top 40%
MPMarel Meat Processing: 1 patents #8 of 31Top 30%
West Des Moines, IA: #10 of 276 inventorsTop 4%
Iowa: #395 of 15,303 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Steven P. Hergott has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Townsend Engineering. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in September 2015. Steven P. Hergott ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Steven P. Hergott in West Des Moines, IA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
RE45675 Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2015-09-29
RE40030 Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2008-01-22
7182684 Method and means for stuffing natural casings with a sausage emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2007-02-27
7179161 Method and apparatus for vertically stuffing casings with sausage emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2007-02-20
7033264 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Stephen H. Cate, Marcellinus F. Ottow, Vincent L. Basile, II, Michael S. Simpson, David Hamblin +3 more 2006-04-25
6981912 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Stephen H. Cate, Marcellinus F. Ottow, Vincent L. Basile, II, Michael S. Simpson, David Hamblin +3 more 2006-01-03
6855046 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Stephen H. Cate, Marcellinus F. Ottow, Vincent L. Basile, II, Michael S. Simpson, David Hamblin +3 more 2005-02-15
6846234 Method and means for advancing a sausage casing using fluid power David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2005-01-25
6843713 Method and means for encasing sausage David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2005-01-18
6719621 Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2004-04-13
6676502 Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2004-01-13
6669545 Method and means for stuffing natural casings with a food emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2003-12-30
6659853 Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2003-12-09
6659854 Method and means for rapid loading of casing-bearing sleeves on a sausage making machine David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2003-12-09
6641474 Method and means for rapid loading of casing-bearing sleeves on a sausage making machine David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2003-11-04
6585580 Method and means for stuffing natural casings with sausage emulsion David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2003-07-01
6572464 Method and means for rapid loading of casing-bearing sleeves on a sausage making machine David Hamblin, Michael J. Hardy 2003-06-03
6558241 Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of a sausage making machine Kenneth B. Arnote, David Hamblin, Kenneth L. Lebsack 2003-05-06
6290591 Method and apparatus for determining the number of looped sausages for deposit on a smokestick Vincent L. Basile, II, James Myers, Marcelinus Franciscus Ottow, Michael S. Simpson 2001-09-18
6277018 Method and means making and conveying an extruded sausage strand Daniel J. Cody, David Hamblin, Wendell J. Holl, David C. Nordby, Michael S. Simpson +1 more 2001-08-21
6086469 Method and means for conveying and processing an extruded sausage strand Daniel J. Cody, David Hamblin, Wendell J. Holl, David C. Nordby, Michael S. Simpson +1 more 2000-07-11
6066035 Automatic control for terminating the filling of a sausage casing, and method of use thereof Michael S. Simpson 2000-05-23
6056636 Method and means for making and conveying an extruded sausage strand Daniel J. Cody, David Hamblin, Wendell J. Holl, David C. Nordby, Michael S. Simpson +1 more 2000-05-02
5971842 Meat emulsion pump control system for meat encasing machine, and method of use thereof Michael S. Simpson, David Hamblin, Brent M. Veldkamp 1999-10-26
5951391 Method and means for linking sausage Michael S. Simpson, Rudolph P. Enklaar 1999-09-14