Method and device for producing and packaging sausage-type products
AssigneeStork Townsend Inc.
InventorJacques Le Paih
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Abstract
According to this method, the products are produced by continuously co-extruding a bead (B) coated with a starting base comprising hydrocolloids so as to form a skin by calcium gelation when the sausage passes into the elongated gelation bath (2), said bead then being shared out into portions (P) placed in trays (C) Many beads (B) are co-extruded by parallel co-extrusion heads, (1) transit into a common gelation bath (2), are brought side by side so as to then be placed into portions by given means (3) acting on all said beads (B) so as to form batches of identical products perfectly grouped and aligned so as to be loaded into their packaging tray (C).
Claims8
Device for producing and packaging sausage type products, characterised in that it includes:
- a plurality of transversally aligned co-extrusion heads (1) that extrude a plurality of formed beads;
- a gelation container (2) that is horizontally elongated and is in the upstream extremity of which said plurality of co-extrusion heads (1) discharge said plurality of formed beads (B);
- means for bringing together, side by side the plurality of formed beads (B) prior to a point at which the plurality of formed beads that has been brought side by side is cut up into portions said means comprising a converging section formed by the downstream extremity portion of the gelation container;
- common means (3) for portioning said plurality of formed beads (B) into portions and acting transversally on the plurality of beads that are brought together;
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- means for loading into trays the portions formed at the outlet of said portioning means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.