Process and apparatus for a preparatory treatment of gathered artificial casings
OwnerHerbert Niedeckerinventor
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Abstract
In the filling of artificial casings with comminuted material to form sausages, comprising pretreating a casing with a warm aqueous fluid, and thereafter filling said pretreated casing with said comminuted material while said casing is gathered in bellows form on the filling tube of a filling machine, the improvement which comprises effecting said pretreatment while said casing is on said filling tube. An apparatus therefor is provided whereby the fluid can be applied to the inside and/or outside of the casing.
Claims20
In the filling of artificial casings with comminuted material to form sausages, comprising pretreating a casing with a warm aqueous fluid, and thereafter filling said pretreated casing with said comminuted material while said casing is gathered in bellows form on the filling tube of a filling machine, the improvement which comprises effecting said pretreatment while said casing is on said filling tube.
In the filling of artificial casings with comminuted material to form sausages, comprising gathering a casing to form a bellows on a filling tube of a filling machine, closing the downstream end of said bellows, supplying said comminuted material to said filling tube whereby it enters the bellows and draws the casing forwardly off the filling tube, and periodically closing the filled casing to form a sausage and to form a new closed downstream end for the next sausage, the improvement which comprises continuously applying to the periphery of said casing while on said filling tube and before being filled with comminuted material a warm aqueous fluid thereby to prepare the casing for being filled, and continuously removing spent aqueous fluid after application to said casing.
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