Patty making machine

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR PRODUCING MEAT PATTIES COMPRISING AN ELONGATED HOPPER ADAPTED TO CONTAIN GROUND MEAT, A PLURALITY OF MEAT COMPRESSION CHAMBERS NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THE HOPPER TO RECEIVE MEAT FROM THE HOPPER, SAID HOPPER HAVING AN OPENING MEANS COMUNICATING WITH SAID CHAMBERS, MOVABLE MEANS IN THE HOPPER TO PROPEL MEAT THROUGH THE OPENING MEANS INTO THE CHAMBERS, PISTONS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID COMPRESSION CHAMBERS TO COMPRESS THE GROUND MEAT THEREIN, SAID CHAMBERS HAVING OUTLETS FOR COMPRESSED GROUND MEAT AT CORRESPONDING ENDS THEREOF, A STATIONARY SUPPORTING SLEEVE ARRANGED BENEATH THE HOPPER AN EXTENDING LENGTHWISE THEREOF AND SPACED FROM SAID OUTLETS, A PATTYING SLEEVE SURROUNDING SAID STATIONARY SUPPORTING SLEEVE AND ROTATABLY MOUINTED THEREON AND HAVING CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED GROUPS OF PATTYFORMING OPENINGS THEREIN ADAPTED TOA PASS ADJACENT TO THE OUTLETS OF SAID CHAMBERS, COMPRESSED MEAT IN SAID CHAMBERS THEN ADAPTED TO ENTER THE PATTY-FORMING OPENINGS THROUGH SAID OUTLETS, AND MOVABLE MEANS ON SAID STATIONARY SUPPORTING SLEEVE TO EJECT MEAT PATTIES FROM THE OPENINGS OF THE PATTYING SLEEVE AT A POINT DURING THE ROTATIONAL CYCLE OF THE LATTER.