Large casings stuffing product stoppering means
AssigneeUnion Carbide Corporation
InventorVytautas Kupcikevicius
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Abstract
An emulsion flow shut off valve in apparatus for stuffing viscous food product into tubular flexible casings is interiorly recessed within the apparatus stuffing horn upstream of the stuffing horn discharge orifice a distance far enough to reestablish laminar flow of the product from turbulent flow induced at the valve location.
Claims4
In a method for encasing viscous fluid product in continuous lengths of flexible tubular casing by forceably directing such product from a product supply source through a stuffing horn assembly and into such casing and wherein product flow is selectably stopped, the improvement of controllably selectively stopping said product flow at a location inwardly recessed from the product discharge end of the stuffing horn assembly a distance of at least twice the equivalent diameter of the discharge end of the stuffing horn assembly.
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