Alfred Donald Story, Age 983528 Ferndale Ave, Danville, IL 61834

4351549, Sep 28, 1982

May 8, 1980

6/147773

Frank E. Williams - Danville IL
Alfred D. Story - Danville IL

Teepak, Inc. - Chicago IL

F16L 4100

285 27

This relates to a mandrel clamp assembly for supporting a mandrel of a shirring machine and for introducing liquid and air into the mandrel. Most particularly, this relates to the mounting of a sealing sleeve and the mounting of a mandrel positioning pin.

4307488, Dec 29, 1981

May 8, 1980

6/147770

William Lofland - Renton WA
Alfred D. Story - Danville IL
Harold H. Martinek - Danville IL

Teepak, Inc. - Chicago IL

A22C 1302

17 42

This relates to an apparatus for treating a separated strand of shirred casing. The strand is fed along a mandrel and a stop member is positioned transversely of the mandrel adjacent a free end thereof, after which the trailing end of the strand is engaged by a shaping device which, as it advances toward the stop to compress the strand, is oscillated or rotated also to dress the trailing end of the strand. When the stop is opened, the same member is used to doff the strand from the mandrel.

4339894, Jul 20, 1982

Nov 13, 1979

6/093338

Alfred D. Story - Danville IL
Dixon R. Asquith - Danville IL

Teepak, Inc. - Chicago IL

A22C 1100
B24B 100

51281R

An apparatus for shirring synthetic casings wherein there is superimposed on the customary helical shirring pattern another pattern which will change the folding or shirring pleat pattern of the casing from that of the customary continuous helix so as to increase the compressibility of the casing. In its simplest form, the part cylindrical shirring surfaces of cooperating shirring wheels are machined so as cooperatively to define a cylindrical shirring surface having a center which rotates about the axis of an associated shirring mandrel.

4075737, Feb 28, 1978

Sep 20, 1976

5/724893

Alfred Donald Story - Danville IL

Teepak, Inc. - Chicago IL

A22C 1300

17 45

A method and device for everting thin-walled flexible tubular casings or the like by passing a distal portion of the casing through a ring member, folding the casing back over the ring, grasping the free end of the casing, and displacing the ring relative to the fixed casing end, whereby the casing is drawn through and around the ring and is thereby everted.

4336632, Jun 29, 1982

May 8, 1980

6/147774

Willard T. Wilson - Danville IL
Harold H. Martinek - Danville IL
Thomas W. Martinek - Covington IN
Alfred D. Story - Danville IL

Teepak, Inc. - Chicago IL

A22C 1302

17 1R

This relates to a machine for shirring tubular films such as those used for sausage casings and the like. In accordance with this disclosure, the films are continuously fed onto a mandrel where they are opened from their flat state and then are fed at a selected rate through a shirring head. The shirred casing is then gripped and advanced in a manner so as to control the density thereof and to impart a spin thereto as desired.

4648428, Mar 10, 1987

Dec 21, 1984

6/684517

Alfred D. Story - Danville IL

Teepak, Inc. - Oak Brook IL

F16L 1110

1381181

A shirred tubular material comprising a plurality of outer folds which when the tubular material is opened are arranged along at least two substantially parallel, longitudinally extending helixes. A method for forming the disclosed shirred tubular material is disclosed which comprises sequentially applying shirring forces through two or more sets of shirring elements wherein each successive member of a set applies shirring forces along a different continuous line than its immediate preceding member. The tubular material may contain reinforcing fibers.

4320558, Mar 23, 1982

May 8, 1980

6/147887

Harold H. Martinek - Danville IL
Thomas W. Martinek - Covington IN
Alfred D. Story - Danville IL

Teepak, Inc. - Chicago IL

A22C 1302

17 42

This relates to a machine for shirring tubular films such as those used for sausage casings and the like. In accordance with this disclosure, the films are continuously fed onto a mandrel where they are opened from their flat state and then are fed at a selected rate through a shirring head. The shirred casing is then gripped and advanced in a manner so as to control the density thereof and to impart a spin thereto as desired. The shirred casing, while being spun, is gripped by a pair of cooperating units and a leading portion of the shirred casing is separated at predetermined spacings into individual strands which are then fed along the mandrel individually and are compressed and doffed from the mandrel into a strand handler which then presents each strand to an end closer and thereafter deposits the closed strand on a receiving tray.