Portion pack with a suspension loop and method and device for attaching it
AssigneePoly-clip System GmbH & Co. KG
InventorMartin Zurwieden
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Abstract
A suspension loop for a portion pack, consisting of a tubular sleeve, sealed on its ends by clips, in particular sausages, is attached to the end of a tubular sleeve drawn together to form a string of sausages by a twist knot formed from the suspension loop. The suspension loop, kept ready, clamped in rectangular shape, is pulled through the loop around the string with the aid of a swivelable looping finger. The device suitable for this additionally has a holding fork and a movable clamping fork, both of which are two-pronged. The device can be swiveled into the sealing device when the tubular sleeve is sealed with clips.
Claims11
In combination:
- a portion pack in the form of a tubular sleeve filled with filling varying from small pieces to paste and sealed at the ends by clips to sections drawn together to form plait-like strings, and
- a circumferentially closed suspension loop attached to one of the strings adjacent the clip, the attachment of the suspension loop comprises a twist knot encircling the filled string.
A method for attaching a suspension loop to a tubular sleeve, drawn together to form a string, the method comprising the steps of:
- guiding the loop, closed in the form of a rectangle clamped in an elongated, narrow manner, tangentially to the string;
- gripping the loop near a first rectangular end out of the tangential plane on a path concentric to the axis of the tube;
- taking hold of the loop on the other, second rectangular end from the side of the string opposite the tangential plane;
- pulling said second loop end through the loop near its first rectangular end, while maintaining the gripping of the loop near the first rectangular end of the loop;
- and
- tightening the thereby formed twist knot.
A device for attaching a suspension loop to a tubular sleeve drawn together to form a string, the device comprising:
- a mount having a stationary two-pronged holding fork and a two-pronged clamping fork thereon, the holding fork and the clamping fork being movable relative to the one another and perpendicular to the plane of its prongs, and a curved looping finger, attached on one side of the mount and swivelable over a partial circle;
- the prongs of the two forks being essentially perpendicular to a plane connecting the forks and capable of clamping between them a circumferentially closed suspension loop in the form of an elongated narrow rectangle, which at the start of an attachment cycle has longitudinal sides extending tangentially to the string;
- the looping finger having a hooked tip, which during its swiveling movement moves out of a neutral position on the side of the rectangular loop opposite the string through the rectangular loop near its first rectangular end), held by the clamping fork, around the string to the other rectangular end, releases the latter from the holding fork and carries it along on the first rectangular end when swiveling back around the string and through the suspension loop, forming a twist knot attaching the suspension loop to the string.
In combination:
- a belt band;
- and
- closed suspension loops, detachably attached next to one another, the longitudinal sides of which are a parallel distance apart, the longitudinal edges of the closed suspension loops run near the transverse sides of the suspension loops leaving open loop openings only of sufficient size for inserting pick-up tools, the longitudinal edges being a parallel distance apart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.