Sausage twisting apparatus and method
AssigneesOlve Industrier A/S, Johan Nerhus
InventorsArne Nerhus, Johan Nerhus
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Abstract
An apparatus for twisting a continuous, filled tube of membranous tissue into a string of sausages, includes a pair of parallelly opposed, spaced belt conveyors for pulling in a length of the continuous tube longitudinally therebetween, a constrictor for constricting and pinching such length of tube at an end thereof, structure for relative lateral displacement of the belt conveyors to roll the length of tube therebetween about its longitudinal axis, thereby twisting the tube length end adjacent the constrictor, and device for driving the belt conveyors.
Claims8
An apparatus for twisting a continuous, filled tube of membranous tissue into a string of sausages, said apparatus comprising:
- a pair of parallelly opposed, spaced belt conveyors for pulling in a length of the continuous tube longitudinally therebetween,
- means for constricting and pinching the length of tube at an end thereof,
- means for relative lateral displacement of said belt conveyors to roll the length of tube therebetween about its longitudinal axis, thereby twisting the tube length end adjacent said constrictor, and
- means for driving said belt conveyors.
A method for twisting a continuous, filled tube of membranous tissue filled with forcemeat into a string of individual sausages, said method comprising the steps of:
- pulling a length of said continuous tube in between two parallelly opposed, spaced belt conveyors,
- constricting and pinching the pulled in tube length at an end thereof,
- relatively displacing said conveyors laterally in opposite directions to cause a rolling movement of said length of tube about its longitudinal axis, thereby twisting the tube at the point of constriction thereof,
- releasing said tube from the pinching thereof,
- pulling in a further length of tube between said conveyors,
- constricting and pinching an end of said further length of tube at its point of constriction, and
- displacing said conveyors laterally in opposite, reversed directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.