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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:
Sep. 13, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
452 38 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for filling tubular casings includes a filling tube having a locking device, the locking device including at least one locking element, and a calibrating ring that is lockable on the filling tube. A method for filling a tubular casing includes the steps of mounting a gathered casing stick on a filling tube, sliding a calibrating ring onto the filling tube, locking the calibrating ring on the filling tube, drawing the start of the gathered casing stick over the calibrating ring, introducing the filling material into an extruder, and pressing the filling material through the filling tube and into the tubular casing.