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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
May. 16, 1997
Thomas Ralph Stanley, Georgetown, IL (US);
Mark David Kelley, Kansas City, MO (US);
James Allen Snider, Georgetown, IL (US);
Jerry Edward Armstrong, Danville, IL (US);
Devro-Teepak, Inc., Westchester, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for stuffing food product into a tubular food casing at a predetermined linear rate of movement of stuffed food product, closing the stuffed food product to segregate the stuffed food product into links while the stuffed food product continues to move at said predetermined rate. The invention also includes an improved food product stuffing machine which stuffs food product into a tubular food casing at a predetermined linear rate of movement of stuffed food product, a closing device which applies closures to the stuffed food product to segregate the stuffed food product into stuffed food product links while the stuffed food product continues to move at said predetermined rate. After clipping, means is provided for returning the closing device to an original position to repeat the operation after another desired length of casing is stuffed.