Sausage-casing loading method and casing/sleeve combination therefor
OwnerRemy A. E. Steffeninventor
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Abstract
A sausage-casing/sleeve combination has a flexible synthetic-resin sleeve having a laterally open aperture, a pair of longitudinal ends, and a tear line extending longitudinally from this aperture to one of the ends. A plurality of sausage-casing sections having overlapping ends and longitudinally compressed accordion-fashion are carried on the sleeve between the aperture and the one end. This combination is made by fitting the sleeve over a mandrel tube, clamping the end of the sleeve at the tip of the mandrel tube, and then pulling the sections over the thus rigidified sleeve while ejecting water from the end of the sleeve to soften the sausage-casing sections. The overlapping ends may be stapled, glued, or sewn together.
Claims14
A method of loading sausage-casing sections onto the nozzle of a sausage-stuffing machine,
- said casing sections being carried on a flexible synthetic-resin sleeve having a laterally open aperture, a pair of longitudinal ends, and a tear line extending longitudinally from said aperture to one of said ends,
- said sections having overlapping ends and being longitudinally compressed accordion-fashion on said sleeve between said aperture and said one end;
- said method comprising the steps of:
- fitting the sleeve carrying the succession of overlapped casing sections backwardly over said nozzle by inserting said nozzle into said sleeve through said aperture toward said one end;
- and
- thereafter stripping said sleeve from between said nozzle and said sections to split said sleeve along said tear line and leave said succession of overlapped casing sections on said nozzle.
In combination:
- a flexible synthetic-resin sleeve having a laterally open aperture of a size sufficient for insertion of a nozzle of a sausage-stuffing machine into said sleeve through said aperture, a pair of longitudinal ends, and a tear line extending longitudinally from said aperture to one of said ends;
- and
- a plurality of sausage-casing sections having overlapping ends and longitudinally compressed accordion-fashion on said sleeve between said aperture and said one end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.