US Patent Issued to HITEC on March 25 for "Sausage sticking system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,746, issued on March 25, was assigned to HITEC Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Sausage sticking system" was invented by Tatsuo Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan), Takayuki Fujimaki (Yokohama, Japan), Hideaki Oikawa (Yokohama, Japan), Hirokatsu Harasawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Takashi Arai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sausage sticking system capable of changing a position and an interval at which a chain of sausages is hung on a stably held stick according to a length of a casing. The sausage sticking system includes a hook conveying unit, a stick holding unit, and a pivoting imparting unit. A loop of a chain of s...