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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356975 | Apparatus for packaging material in netting including a netting knife cutter An apparatus for packaging material in netting is described. The apparatus in a first embodiment is a netter for enclosing material in netting and a scissors assembly for severing the netting. The scissors assembly comprises a pair of blade elements pivotally connec... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7216469 | Netting knife cutter An apparatus and method of enclosing material in a netting and supplying a handle for ease of carrying the netted material, comprising clippers, irises, and a handle maker. A novel scissors assembly for severing the netting is disclosed. A conveyor carries the mater... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7182684 | Method and means for stuffing natural casings with a sausage emulsion A method of stuffing natural casings with emulsion involves placing a follower against an upstream end of the natural casing to slide the natural casing forwardly along a hollow meat stuffing tube. The follower is mounted on the stuffing tube and advances the natura... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7011858 | Concertina-shaped casing suitable for edible materials The present invention relates generally to a shirred concertina formed from a seamless, tubular foodstuff casing that is tied-off at one end, and has an outer surface provided with a coating or impregnation including a food additive. The tied-off end of the present ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6964605 | Production method of natural intestine sausage and device therefor A method and an apparatus (1) for manufacturing natural intestine sausages includes a stuffing tube (4), an intestine pushing member (6), an intestine-pushing-member driving device (7), an intestine receiving member (9), a braking ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6524177 | Device for connecting a meat portioning-filling machine to a clipping machine A device for connecting a meat portioning-filling machine to a clipping machine, comprising a tube which is adapted to convey the meat and to support the tubular casing to be filled; the tube has, at its output section, a fixed contrast cutter which is ad... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6146261 | Method and apparatus for producing and filling a tubular packaging casing Method and apparatus for producing and filling a tubular packaging casing, wherein the production rate of the casing is adjusted in dependence on the withdrawal rate of the casing from a buffer reservoir.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5897432 | Shirred food casing end system A method for forming a vented end closure in a shirred food casing stick by forming an unshirred tail on the food casing stick, inserting a rod through the tail and into the stick, plunging the tail into the stick, and tamping the tail to form a closed en... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5215495 | One-piece shirred casing A one-piece shirred casing article that finds particular utility in making dry sausages such as pepperoni is disclosed, as is a method for making the article and for using it. A tied one-piece casing is shirred into a compact form and encased in a tempora... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5131883 | Food emulsion casing end-closure A food emulsion casing end-closure, and the method of making it, are disclosed. The end-closure is formed of a twist knot through which an air escape aperture is extended. The twist knot forms part of a wadding which is stuffed into the bore of a shirred ... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5045020 | Shirred packaging tube An article is disclosed comprising a cylindrical hollow rod, composed of a shirred packaging tube, with an internal bore having a circular cross-section and ending in cavity openings at the two end faces of the hollow rod, in combination with a sheathing ... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4660254 | Apparatus for automated manufacture of link sausages having casings formed of synthetic tubular material An apparatus for producing sausages shirrs tubular material and positions it on a stuffing horn for filling with forcemeat at a filling station. Transfer means may convey the shirred material to another location at which the stuffing takes places. The fil... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4649601 | Method and an apparatus for cyclically charging the filling tube of a sausage stuffing and closing machine with ready-for-stuffing tubular casing lengths For cyclically charging the filling tube of a sausage stuffing and closing machine with ready-for-stuffing tubular casing lengths, a tubular casing material flatly wound upon a supply roll is first withdrawn, opened and, in respectively one section length... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4642848 | Process for automated manufacture of link sausages having casings formed of synthetic tubular material A method for producing sausages comprises shirring tubular material and positioning it on a stuffing horn. The shirred material on the stuffing horn is stuffed with meat product to form sausage products which may be linked.... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4625362 | Method and a device for automated manufacture of strings of sausages A method and apparatus is disclosed for the continuous automated manufacture of sausage wherein tubular material for sausage casing from a supply source is axially shirred by shirring means into shirred sections, of continuously measured length; the shirr... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4619018 | Apparatus for applying a length of flexible tubing to the filling pipe of a multiple-spout head To apply a length of flexible tubing to the filling pipe 5 of a multiple-spout head 6 for making a casing section 4, which is closed at one end and is to be processed further on a combined filling and closing machine, a carrying element 2 having a tubular... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4580316 | Hose material to be used as sausage casing, in particular in the automated manufacture of sausage strings on a sausage stuffing machine Hose material for the continuous automated manufacture of sausage wherein tubular material for sausage casing from a supply source is axially shirred by shirring means into shirred sections, of continuously measured length; the shirred sections are stuffe... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4577370 | Method and apparatus for opening axially shirring and dividing off thin-walled, cord-shaped tubular casing material, especially casings made of synthetic material, for the sausage manufacture The invention is concerned with a method of opening, axially shirring and dividing off tubular casing material, especially synthetic casing for the sausage manufacture, to form tubular folds or corrugations, and of subsequently conveying the same to a pro... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4538326 | Process and apparatus for automated manufacture of link sausages having casings formed of synthetic tubular material A method for producing link sausages wherein a casing is moistened just prior to shirring, shirred, transferred while in moistened condition to a stuffing tube, stuffed and linked.... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4479283 | Method of and apparatus for stuffing foodstuff into a casing Methods of and apparatus for stuffing foodstuff into a casing, more particularly a method and apparatus for stuffing foodstuffs such as sausage meat or hams which are to be cured by smoking into a casing of fibrous material suitable for the smoking of the... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4358873 | Process and apparatus for automated manufacture of link sausages having casings formed of synthetic tubular material An apparatus for producing link sausages first shirs previously unshirred tubular material and then conveys the shirred tubular material to a stuffing horn at which it is filled with forcemeat. A first station has the shirring structure. A transfer struct... | 11/16/1982 |
