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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vytautas Kupcikevicius, Chicago, IL (US);
Vytas A Raudys, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
17 49 ; 17 34 ;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for stuffing food product into shirred casing in which a stuffing machine designed to stuff fully soaked casing is adapted to the use of controllably premoisturized casing. An internal sizing ring stretches the casing to about its recommended stuffed circumference so that the stuffing pressures required to fill the casing are reduced to manageable proportions. During the clipping cycle an increase in product pressure is avoided, by creating slack during the constricting phase of the gathering and clipping operation, and by gripping more tightly with the second tie gripper than with the first.