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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Georg Staudenrausch, Biberach an der Riss, DE;
Assignee:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach/Riss, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
452 47 ; 452 30 ;
Abstract
In a method for making sausages, in which the sausage meat exiting from a filling machine is filled into a sausage skin pulled off a skin caterpillar to form a sausage rope and the rope is then divided into individual sausages by twisting it between every two adjacent sausage portions, the improvement wherein the spacing in the skin between each two adjacent sausage portions in the rope is increased by pulling the leading sausage portion forwards together with the sausage skin at a speed greater than the sausage meat expulsion speed during the dividing operation.