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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1997
Ulrich Delius, Frankfurt, DE;
Ulrich Delius, Frankfurt, DE;
Kalle Nalo GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden, DE;
Abstract
The invention concerns a biaxially stretched and thermoset tubular seamless single- or multi-layered foodstuff skin wherein the layer, or, a multi-layered skin wherein at least one of the layers, contains a block copolymer with 'hard' aliphatic polyamide blocks and 'soft' aliphatic polyether blocks, the block copolymer corresponding to one of formulae (I) to (III), E—(NH—[CH]—CO)—X—(A—O)—A X—(CO—[CH]—NH)—E(I), (II), —[X—(CO—[CH]—NH)—Y—X—(A—O)—A]-(III). The invention is particularly suitable as a skin for a sausage which is to be boiled or heated in water, and does not form folds when the filling is introduced manually, with no or only slight pressure.