Double tube encasing apparatus
AssigneeMerctech Pty Ltd
InventorsEnnio Mercuri, James Mercuri, Anthony Mendo
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Abstract
A double tube encasing apparatus and methods of encasing for encasing meat products in a double casing including a film (e.g. collagen film) and a net in which a first tube is loaded with a height reduced shirred film and a second coaxial tube which supports a shirred netting. In one embodiment a casing tube is placed over a meat stuffing horn and is preloaded with a loose shirred film. A second casing tube which supports the netting is pushed or placed over the loose shirred film, and causes a reduction in diameter of the loose shirred film for example by forcing the vertically pleated shirred film to layback.
Claims21
An encasing apparatus for encasing meat products extruded from a meat stuffing horn having a meat outlet end in a double casing comprising film casing and a net casing, the encasing apparatus comprising:
- a first casing tube co-axially mountable over the meat stuffing horn, the first casing tube supporting a shirred film, wherein the shirred film has a height reduced profile with a first height;
- a second casing tube co-axially mountable over the first casing tube, the second casing tube supporting a shirred netting.
A method of double casing a meat product exiting a meat stuffing horn, the method comprising:
- loading a shirred film onto a first casing tube having a first height;
- placing a second casing tube loaded with a shirred netting coaxially over the first casing tube;
- forcing a meat product through the meat stuffing horn and double casing the meat exiting the meat stuffing horn by de-shirring the film and netting exiting the first casing tube and the second casing tube,
- wherein either the film is shirred to have a height reduced profile or placing the second casing tube over the first casing tube induces a reduction in the height of the shirred film to a second height.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.