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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1990
Mark R Hall, Lorretto, CA;
Larry A Rohde, Mississauga, CA;
Michael L Samarco, Brampton, CA;
Edward Kroeger, North York, CA;
Canada Packers Inc., Ontario, CA;
Abstract
An apparatus for removing the skins or casings from sausage products includes an abrasion means suitably in the form of a pair of counter rotating, rough surfaced rollers through which the sausages pass after the casings have been slit longitudinally, to tear the casings off the sausages abrasively. Immediately downstream of the abrading means is a suction means, preferably in the form of a perforated suction roller, which sucks the casing remnants away from the residual sausages. The apparatus avoids the need for the use of compressed air to loosen and separate the casings from the sausages, thereby drastically reducing tne nose level at which the apparatus operates, and eliminating the risk of bacterial contamination inherent in the use of jets of compressed air.