Package of shirred food casings
AssigneeViskase Corporation
InventorRobert P. Graves
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Abstract
A package or "caddie" of fifty (50) shirred tubular sticks of food casing is formed by stacking the sticks in seven rows one on another the lowermost row containing five side-by-side stack, each of the next four rows containing one stick more than the row below and each of the top two rows having one stick less than the row below. This forms a six sided caddie wherein all internal angles as formed by the sides of the stack are 120.degree. and the perimeter of the stack is formed by a continuous unbroken progression of side-by-side sticks. A stretch film disposed transversely about the stack bundles the sticks tightly together.
Claims11
A caddie of tubular shirred sticks of food casing comprising:
- a) a plurality of tubular shirred sticks of food casing all of substantially equal diameter and length arranged in a stack with their longitudinal axes parallel and their ends coplanar;
- b) said sticks being arranged in a plurality of rows piled one on another including a lowermost first row containing at least two of said sticks and defining a base surface of said stack, each of the next four rows containing one stick more than the row below and a sixth row containing one less stick than the row below;
- c) said rows being piled one on another such that said stack in transverse cross section has a shape comprising a perimeter of six sides and six internal angles of 120.degree. each, said lowermost row defining a base side of said perimeter and no more than two of said sides being equal in length to said base side and said shape having mirror image symmetry about a line perpendicular to said base side and bisecting said shape, and
- d) a retainer comprising plastic film disposed in tension transversely about said stack for bundling said sticks tightly together and the width of said retainer being greater than the length of said sticks in said stack.
A caddie of tubular shirred sticks of food casing comprising:
- a) fifty sticks of tubular shirred food casings all of substantially equal diameter and length arranged in a stack with their longitudinal axes parallel and their ends coplanar;
- b) said stack having seven rows of sticks including a lowermost first row containing five sticks positioned side-by-side such that said first row is five stick diameters wide;
- c) each of the next four rows containing one stick more than the row below and each of the next two rows containing one less stick than the row below such that the uppermost seventh row of said stack contains seven sticks positioned side-by-side, the sticks of each of said rows being nested between sticks of an adjacent row;
- d) a retainer disposed in tension transversely about said stack to bundle said sticks tightly together;
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- e) said caddies in transverse cross section having a perimeter of six sides and six internal angles of 120.degree. each, three adjacent sides of said perimeter including a base side being of equal length, a top side of said perimeter being longer than said base side and the remaining two sides being of equal length and shorter than said base side.
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