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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2000
Minoru Kasai, Kanagawa, JP;
Minoru Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
HiTec Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus ( ) for manufacturing sausages as chain-like food products is comprised of: a stuffing nozzle ( ) over which an unstuffed natural intestine casing ( ) is fitted and which is adapted to continuously discharge a fixed amount of meat (M) as a stuffing material from a distal end ( ) into the unstuffed natural intestine casing ( ) so as to form a stuffed natural intestine casing ( ) forwardly of the distal end ( ), and is rotated so as to rotate the stuffed natural intestine casing ( ) about an axis (X) in the direction of (A) by means of the fitted unstuffed natural intestine casing ( ); and two pairs of pincher members ( ), ( ) and ( ), ( ) for consecutively pinching the stuffed natural intestine casing ( ) in predetermined cycles and adapted to circulatingly move in the direction of (C) to move the pinched stuffed natural intestine casing ( ) from a position forward of the distal end ( ) of the stuffing nozzle ( ) further downstream (in the direction of (B)).