Process and apparatus for treating sausage casing prior to filling
OwnerHerbert Niedeckerinventor
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Abstract
A rotatable holder has a plurality of parallel carriers onto which sausage casings are gathered. The holder rotates to dip the casings sequentially in a treating liquid after which the carriers and casings emerge. When a carrier is aligned with a filling tube of a sausage-filling machine, the casing is transferred still in gathered condition from said carrier to said tube. Means are provided to hold the casing in place and to facilitate start up of filling of a new casing.
Claims18
A process for applying an artificial casing to a filling tube of a sausage-filling machine, comprising placing said casing on a carrier in gathered bellows-like form, retaining said casing in such gathered form on said carrier, immersing said carrier and casing in an aqueous fluid thereby to treat said casing, withdrawing said carrier and its casing from the fluid, and transferring said treated casing from said carrier to said tube while maintaining the casing in gathered condition.
An apparatus comprising in combination a sausage-filling machine having at least one filling tube and a casing treating machine, the treating machine comprising a tank for holding a treating fluid, means for supplying treating fluid to said tank and for removing treating fluid therefrom, at least one carrier onto which a casing can be gathered in bellows-like form outside said treating fluid, means for immersing the carrier with the casing into treating fluid in said tank and then for removing the carrier and casing from the treating fluid, and means for transferring the treated casing from said carrier to said filling tube.
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