Apparatus and method to net food products in shirred tubular casing
AssigneePoly-clip System GmbH & Co. KG
InventorThomas Mysker
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Abstract
An apparatus and method to net food products in shirred tubular casing, in order to create a highly-dimpled foot product. A filling horn, shir housing, and netting tube allow for the extrusion of food products into an edible tubular collagen film, which itself expands into a netting of a smaller diameter than that of the film. As the food product under pressure expands against the tubular film, it presses through the spaces in the netting to created a dimpled appearance. After the food product has been further processed, the netting is removed, leaving the food product with a highly-dimpled appearance.
Claims14
An apparatus to net a food product in shirred tubular casings, comprising:
- a filling horn adapted to received extruded food products and having an outside diameter on which a tubular casing having a filled diameter has been shirred, said outside diameter being less than said filled diameter;
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- a shir housing having a diameter greater than said outside diameter of said filling horn and located coaxially to said filling horn;
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- a netting tube releasably attachable to said shir housing and on which tubular netting having a diameter less than said filled diameter of said tubular casing has been rucked, said netting tube having a diameter intermediate to said outside diameter of said filling horn and said diameter of said shir housing.
A method of preparing food products in netted tubular casings, comprising:
- shirring tubular casing having a filled diameter on a filling horn having an outside diameter, said outside diameter being less than said filled diameter;
- placing said filling horn in a shir housing having an inside diameter greater than said outside diameter of said filling horn;
- rucking a tubular netting having a diameter less than said filled diameter of said filling horn onto a netting tube, said netting tube having a diameter intermediate to said outside diameter of said filling horn and said inside diameter of said shir housing;
- attaching said netting tube to said housing;
- extruding food products through said filling horn, whereby the food products expand said tubular casing against said netting to create a dimpled appearance in the food product.
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