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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7001635 | Process for improving smoky color of an encased food product The present invention relates to a method for enhancing the smoky color and flavor of foodstuffs, such as sausages, produced in casing containing liquid smoke, by exposing the encased foodstuff to a alkaline solution. Peeling of the sausages is also enhanced. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6630214 | Improving rewet shrink properties of casing Disclosed is a method of forming a seamless, non derivatized cellulose tubular film having enhanced rewet shrinkage properties. The enhanced properties are provided by first drying a hydrated extruded tube of non derivatized cellulose gel at one inflated ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6565796 | Method and apparatus for use in manufacture of cellulose casing Disclosed is a method of sizing nonderivatized extruded cellulosic tubes by the use of a mandrel structure that includes a hollow sizing portion having openings which gather gas bubbles that may evolve at the interface between the extruded tube and the si... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6547999 | Cellulose food casing, cellulose composition and production method therefor The present invention provides a method of preparing a cellulose solution suitable for extrusion as a seamless tubular film by providing a pulp of substantially open-ended fibrillated softwood fibers having a mean fiber length less than 2.0 mm and then di... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6444161 | Mandrel structure for use in manufacture of cellulose food casing Disclosed is a mandrel structure for extruding a tube composed of a non derivatized cellulose. The mandrel includes a hollow sizing portion having openings which gather gas bubbles that may evolve at the interface between the extruded tube and the sizing ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6319457 | Method for extruding tubular film A method and apparatus is disclosed for lacing an extruded tube of a non derivatized cellulose through an S-wrap to collapse the tube to a flat width. The lacing to form the S-wrap is accomplished without slowing the extrusion speed. At the start of the e... | 11/20/2001 |
