Sausage cutting apparatus

A sausage cutting apparatus including:

• a support base defining a feed path along which a sausage to be cut is supported and displaced;
• a first cutting assembly located at one side of the feed path, including an elongate continuous carrier member and a plurality of longitudinally-spaced first cutting devices which are fixedly connected to the carrier member, each first cutting device having a cutting blade and an adjacent abutment formation which is spaced therefrom;
• a second cutting assembly located at an opposite side of the feed path, including an elongate continuous carrier member and a plurality of longitudinally-spaced second cutting devices which are fixedly connected to the carrier member, each second cutting device having a cutting blade;
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• a guide system for guiding displacement of the first and second cutting devices along first and second cutter paths, respectively, adjacent the feed path in an arrangement wherein each of the first cutting devices is associated with a particular one of the second cutting devices such that during a cutting operation, the associated first and second cutting devices are initially displaced inwardly towards one another until the cutting blade of the second cutting device is at least partially received within the space defined between the cutting blade and the abutment formation of the first cutting device in a conjugate meshing action so as to sever the sausage and thereafter displaced in a direction away from one another.