# US 5,699,723 A · Device for making sausages

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- Number: US 5,699,723 A
- Document ID: US5699723A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/645,176
- Filed: 1996-05-13
- Granted: 1997-12-23
- Earliest claimed: 1995-05-18
- Assignees: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
- Inventors: Gerhard Schliesser; Karl Burger
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5699723A

## CPC

- A22C 15/001: {Specially adapted for hanging or conveying several sausages or strips of meat}
- A22C 11/00: Sausage making {(chemical aspects A23L13/00); Apparatus for handling or conveying sausage products during manufacture}
- A22C: PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH (preserving A23B; obtaining protein compositions for foodstuffs A23J1/00; fish, meat or poultry preparations A23L; disintegrating, e.g. chopping meat, B02C18/00; preparation of proteins C07K1/00)

## Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for supplying sausage strings made coherently in chains to a smoke stick, the device comprising a transportation device including rotating transportation hooks to which the sausages are transferred. To facilitate the closing of sausages, especially of natural skin sausage strings, the device for closing is arranged on the transportation device to be movably supported at least over part of the longitudinal extension of the transportation device.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A device for supplying sausage strings made coherently in chains to a smoke stick, comprising a transportation device including rotating transportation hooks to which the sausages are transferred from a portioning machine (1), and a closing device (9) for clipping the beginning and end of a skin length or right and left of a place where the skin has been damaged is arranged on said transportation device (5), said closing device being movably supported at least over part of the longitudinal extension of said transportation device.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A device according to claim 1, wherein said closing device (9) is arranged at a height (h) corresponding to the standard working height of a standing person (80 cm to 140 cm) on a support (11) around which said transportation hooks (6) rotate continuously, said closing device being guided on a transportation belt (14).

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A device according to claim 1, and spaced-apart holding arms (12) arranged approximately at the working height of said closing device (9) for receiving a smoke stick.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

A device according to claim 3, wherein the distance (a) between a smoke stick received on said holding arms (12) and the closing surface (F) of said closing device (9) is about 10 to 25 cm.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

A device according to claim 4, wherein the shortest distance (b) between the transportation hook plane (E.sub.T) and said closing surface (F) of said closing device (9) is about 10 to 25 cm.