Method and apparatus for skinning encased frankfurters and the like
OwnerThomas A. Klyce, Jerry W. Davisinventors
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Abstract
Apparatus for skinning the casing from a chain of encased frankfurters. The apparatus has a plurality of carrier wheels which conveys the frankfurter chain in a sinuous path to provide at least a pair of stressing stations where the casing is stressed first on one side and then the other. Knives are located at the stressing stations which slit the casing on opposite sides thereof.
Claims13
Apparatus for skinning the casing from a chain of encased frankfurters and the like comprising:
- (a) conveying means for loosening the casing of the frankfurters and at the same time conveying the frankfurters endwise in a moving chain of frankfurters along a sinuous path and for applying tension to the chain of frankfurters to provide at least a pair of stressing stations at which the chain of frankfurters is bent and the casing thereof is stressed at least along one side;
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- (b) knife means provided at least at one of said stressing stations for slitting the stressed side of the casing of the chain of frankfurters as the chain moves by one of said stressing stations.
In an apparatus for skinning the casing from a chain of encased frankfurters and the like comprising, in combination:
- (a) steam means for heating the chain of frankfurters;
- (b) vacuum means remote from said steam means for providing a vacuum adjacent the chain of frankfurters;
- (c) a first carrier wheel means downsteam of said steam means and upstream of said vacuum means for moving the chain of frankfurters in a first curved direction to provide a first stressing station at which the chain of frankfurters is bent in one direction and the casing thereof is stressed along a first side;
- (d) a second carrier wheel means downstream of said first carrier means and upstream of said vacuum means for moving the chain of frankfurters in a second curved direction which is a reverse curved direction from said first curved direction to provide a second stressing station at which the chain of frankfurters is bent in the opposite direction from the bend of the first stressing station and the casing thereof is stressed along a second side remote from the first side;
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- (e) a third carrier wheel means downstream of said second carrier means and upstream of said vacuum means for moving the chain of frankfurters from said second carrier wheel means to said vacuum means for removal of the casing from the chain of frankfurters.
A method for skinning the casing from a chain of encased frankfurters and the like comprising the steps of:
- (a) moving the chain of encased frankfurters endwise along a sinuous path and past a first stressing station and subsequently past a second stressing station;
- (b) at the first stressing station, as the chain of encased frankfurters moves through the first stressing station, bending said chain of encased frankfurters to provide a first stressed side of the casing of the chain of encased frankfurters;
- (c) at the first stressing station slitting the first stressed side of the casing of the chain of encased frankfurters;
- (d) at the second stressing station, as the chain of encased frankfurters moves through the second stressing station, bending the chain of encased frankfurters to provide a second stressed side of the casing of the chain of encased frankfurters remote from said first stressed side;
- (e) at the second stressing station slitting the second stressed side of the casing of the chain of encased frankfurters;
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- (f) removing the slit casing from the chain of frankfurters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.