Automatic machine for making packages of viscous food products by enclosing in a casing

Abstract

The invention relates to the food industry and can be utilized to utmost advantage in the production of sausage-like articles, sausage-shaped processed cheeses, packages of minced meat, flour, curd cream, cereals and like products. The disclosed automatic machine includes a chargeable hopper for the product to be packaged, a positive displacement pump, a nozzle with a sleeve thereon, for feeding the product to be packaged into a casing, a mechanism for supplying a flat web of an elastic film onto the sleeve for forming the longitudinal layer of the casing on this sleeve and a device for pulling the casing stuffed with the product being packaged off the nozzle. In accordance with the invention, the automatic machine further including a mechanism for supplying a web of flat elastic film for forming a helically wound layer of the casing superimposed upon the longitudinal layer, the device for pulling the casing with the product being packaged off the nozzle being mounted directly on the latter. The disclosed automatic machine enables to use a film of any kind for the packaging operation, without any additional welding or glueing up of the elements of the casing.

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