Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Kalle Nalo Gmbh & Co Kg

Kalle Gmbh

Kalle Gmbh & Co. Kg

Hoechst Aktiengsellschaft

Kalle Nalo Gmbh & Co.

Gerhard Grolig

Klaus-Dieter Hammer

Ulrich M Delius

Dirk Auf Der Heide

Michael Ahlers

Herbert Gord

Christian Auf Der Heide

Manfred Kuechler

Guenter Reinhard

Peter Boening

Manfred Siebrecht

Karl Stenger

Hans-Gerhard Fritz

Werner Roth

Leo Mans

Dieter Beissel

Martina Koenig

Walter Niederstaetter

Stefanie Stalberg

Guenther Schmidt

Horst Eberhardt

Klaus Berghof

Reinhard Maron

Bernd-Adolf Lang

Hans-Werner Seelgen

Thomas Seidenstuecker

Peter Lang

Furg-Heinrich Kallweit

Gert Bueker

Marion Bueker

Gert Büker

Marion Büker

A film-forming collagen concentrate is provided containing at least 18% by weight dry matter. At least 50% by weight of the protein of a homogeneous suspension produced from the concentrate in a 0.15 molar aqueous sodium dihydrogenphosphate buffer having a pH of 7 and a calculated dry matter fraction of 0.5% by weight may be separated as sediment by 15 min centrifugation at 1780 RFC and 15&#xb0; C. A process is also disclosed for producing a collagen-concentrate-containing food casing that includes (a) producing an aqueous collagen mass; (b) concentrating the aqueous collagen mass until it has a solids fraction of 18% by weight or more; (c) admixing the concentrate with dilute acid to obtain a (co)extrudable or castable collagen mass; (d) coextruding or casting the collagen mass to from a casing; (e) solidifying the casing and, optionally, (f) drying the casing.

Collagen concentrate, use thereof and also process for production thereof

Disclosed is an intrinsically stable shirred, tubular, single-layer or multilayer food casing that preferably has a sigma-5 value (longitudinal/transversal, measured in a moist state) of less than 20/20 N/mm. Said casing is preferably shirred at a ratio of 100:1 or more, preferably 120:1 to 500:1, and is essentially made of synthetic polymers. The shirred casing can be stored and transported without using a net-type envelope and is particularly suitable for processing on fully automatic sausage stuffing, portioning, clipping, and twisting devices.

Intrinsically stable shirred stick

Disclosed is a shined tubular food casing based on a thermoplastic blend of at least one polyamide and/or copolyamide and at least one hydrophilic component. The casing is biaxially stretch-oriented and impregnated on the inside and/or outside with a component which allows the pleats which are formed during shining of the casing to adhere to each other. The component preferably comprises at least one polymer. The casing is preferably shirred at a ratio of 80:1 to 500:1. The inventive shined casing is particularly stable from a mechanical perspective and can therefore be used especially for the production of cooked sausages, scalded-emulsion sausages, and small sausages on fully automatic sausage stuffing and clipping apparatuses.

Intrinsically stable shirred plastic food casing

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 casing is turned back inwardly, into the hollow cavity formed by the concertina. Concertinas of the present invention are particularly adapted for use with automatic sausage filling, portioning, and clipping machines.

Concertina-shaped casing suitable for edible materials

The invention relates to edible molded bodies in the form of a flat or tubular film based on plastifiable biopolymers, the cleavage products or derivatives thereof and/or synthetic polymers from natural monomers, characterized in that they are produced according to a method comprising the following steps: a) the biopolymers, cleavage products or derivatives thereof and/or synthetic polymers are mixed with at least one edible plasticizer, at least one lubricating agent and at least one cross-linking agent, b) the mixture thus obtained is melted into a thermoplastic material, c) said material is extruded and d) the product obtained by extrusion is calendered and/or stretched or blown and deformed into the edible molded body. The molded bodies cited in the invention are suitable for use as food wrappers for sausages and boiled ham, and are particularly suitable for use as seamless sausage casings.

Edible molded bodies, especially flat and flexible tubular films

The invention relates to a film which is produced form a thermoplastic polymer mixture containing the following: a) thermoplastic starch and/or a thermoplastic starch derivative and b) at least one polyester urethane, with the weight ratio a):b) being in the range from 75:25 to 5:95, and the surface-related degree of stretching the film being 2 to 70. The polyester urethanes forms a matrix in the mixture and the thermoplastic starch or a thermoplastic starch derivative being distributed in a microdispersion in the form of particles with a diameter d of 0.05 to 30 &mgr;m. The invention also relates to a method for the inventive film and its use as a packaging film, especially for artificial sausage skins.

Film containing starch or starch derivatives and polyester urethanes

The invention concerns flat or tubular cellulose-based foodstuff casings which are prepared by extruding (&ldquo;spinning&rdquo;) cellulose dissolved in N-methyl-morpholine-N-oxide by means of a nozzle with an annular gap. After extrusion, the casings are stretched transversely in ambient air by blow moulding, and are then treated with an NMMO-containing aqueous spinning bath. The tubular casings are particularly suitable as sausage casings. Cut open, they can also be used as flat foils.

Cellulose-based foodstuff casings prepared by the amine oxide process

A tubular food casing based on regenerated cellulose, which casing may be fiber-reinforced, is coated on its inner surface with a copolymer which includes 50 to 84% by weight of vinylidene chloride units, 2 to 20% by weight of acrylonitrile units, 1 to 10% by weight of acrylic acid units, and 1 to 47% by weight of (C -C )alkyl (meth)acrylate units. The casing has high water vapor barrier and oxygen barrier characteristics. The shirring folds and lay-flat edges which result during the production and processing of the casing remain undamaged over long storage periods. The inner coating, in addition, shows no hot-water haze on simmering. The casing is particularly suitable as an artificial sausage casing.

Internally coated food casings based on regenerated cellulose

The invention relates to a seamless, tubular sausage casing based on cellulose hydrate having a continuous coating made of a polymeric material on its outer surface, which is permeable to hot smoke and cold smoke. The coating preferably has a thickness of from 3 to 10 &mgr;m and can also comprise or consist of a plurality of individual layers. The coating can be applied by conventional coating processes, and in addition also by single or repeated whole-surface printing. The casing is adapted especially for smoked liver sausage.

Coated fiber-reinforced casing based on cellulose hydrate suitable for smoked liver sausage

An at least four-layer tubular biaxially oriented food casing having an outer layer which includes a mixture of at least one aliphatic and at least one partly aromatic (co)polyamide with or without pigments, and an inner layer which includes aliphatic (co)polyamide, wherein, between these layers, a layer of an ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer or a blend of the ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer with an aliphatic or partly aromatic (co)polyamide and/or with an olefinic (co)polymer and/or an ionomer resin and a layer of an olefinic (co)polymer with or without adhesion promoters, pigments, and/or UV absorbers are arranged. The casing has a high water-vapor and oxygen barrier. It is particularly suitable as synthetic sausage casing, and can also be used for packaging cheese or animal feed.

Multilayered, biaxially-oriented food casing comprising two oxygen-barrier layers

Cellulose bonded nonwoven fiber fabric and method for the production

A fiber-reinforced, tubular food casing based on regenerated cellulose, which is produced using an amount of viscose solution which is decreased by 10 to 30% in comparison with the standard casing at a spinning speed increased by at least 25%.

Fiber-reinforced cellulose-hydrate-based food casing produced with a

Sausage casings of starch which can be processed like a thermoplastic and to processes for the production and use thereof. The sausage casing comprises a thermoplastic starch which is comprised of natural starch which has been converted into an amorphous state.

Sausage casings made of thermoplastic starch and process for the

A plastic sheet, which initially is biaxially stretched above its glass transition temperature and heat-set, is stretched a second time monoaxially or biaxially at temperatures below its glass transition temperature, the stretching ratio in the two directions being in the range from about 0.5 to 10%. The secondary stretching is carried out at temperatures between about 30.degree. C. and 60.degree. C. This sheet which has been stretched twice is integrated into a laminated safety glass comprising a laminate, in which the plastic sheet carrying a function layer is disposed between two polyvinylbutyral sheets which, in turn, are enclosed between glass panes.

Thermoplastic sheet produced by multiple stretching steps at different

A process for producing laminated safety glass is disclosed, comprising depositing a film which comprises at least one function layer on a plastic sheet, inserting the sheet between a plurality of further layers, such as two polyvinylbutyral sheets which are in turn enclosed by glass panes, such that the plastic sheet projects beyond the edges of the other layers, clamping the plastic sheet along its projecting sections, and laminating the layers. A clamping device for performing the process and a laminated safety glass produced by the process are also disclosed.

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Moerfelden-Walldorf, Germany

Gerhard Grolig