Title: Handling pork loins

Abstract: Hog loins or other meat items are trimmed to a base weight by severing from one relatively uniform end of each loin a single portion having a length determined by the amount of actual weight of said loin which exceeds the base weight multiplied by a factor representing a lineal relationship between increments of weight and length taken from corresponding uniform ends of other loins which also exceeded the base weight.

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Inventors: Johnson, Walter W. (Downers Grove, IL, US)
Bernholdt, Harry F. (Lombard, IL, US)
Murphy, Robert E. (Downers Grove, IL, US)
Killebrew, John G. (Hoffman Estates, IL, US)

Application Number: 900091
Filing Date: 1978-04-26
Publication_date: 1980-03-25
Assignee: Swift & Company (Chicago, IL)
Primary Class(es): 452/157 83/363, 83/367
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US Patent Ref:

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Other Refs: 556769

May, 1977	SU

Primary Examiner: Abercrombie, Willie G.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Bouton; Charles E.