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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:
Jan. 20, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerald F Maruska, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C / ; A22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
17 49 ; 17 / ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for removing the skin or casing of a sausage involves feeding the sausage through skewed feed rollers to cause the body to move both longitudinally and rotationally, cutting the casing on a nose portion of the sausage, positively gripping the knot or tuft on the forward end of the sausage with a pair of peeling rollers, moving the peeling rollers to a position tangent to the sausage feed path and then pulling the tuft and an attached portion of the casing through the peeling rollers and radially outward from the body to unwrap the casing in a helical pattern as the body is fed past the peeling mechanism.