摘要:
Shirred casing is packaged in pockets on a belt to assist in the stuffing of the shirred casing by an automated stuffing machine. The package is made up of a belt with pockets for the shirred casings. The pockets provide structural integrity to the shirred casings and are spaced evenly for automated handling. The automated stuffing machine has a strand drum with indentations to receive the pocket of the package. The strand drum acts as an indexing mechanism to position each successive pocket so that the shirred casings within may be stuffed. A stuffing horn moves between a stuffing position and an indexing position that is clear of the strand drum. A method for automating the stuffing of shirred casings is disclosed as well.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a flexible sheath which may be opened longitudinally and used for the transfer of casings to a stuffing canula comprised of one or a plurality of flexible bands (1) having a generally oblong shape, the two opposite longitudinal sides of which are rectilinear and each have a projecting rib (2) or a hollow groove (3), forming the male and female complementary elements of a longitudinal press closure (4), capable of being opened and closed a plurality of times, and method for placing casings used in pork-butchery on the stuffing canula (6) for the fabrication of sausages or dried sausages.
摘要:
A package or "caddie" of fifty (50) shirred tubular sticks of food casing is formed by stacking the sticks in seven rows one on another the lowermost row containing five side-by-side stack, each of the next four rows containing one stick more than the row below and each of the top two rows having one stick less than the row below. This forms a six sided caddie wherein all internal angles as formed by the sides of the stack are 120.degree. and the perimeter of the stack is formed by a continuous unbroken progression of side-by-side sticks. A stretch film disposed transversely about the stack bundles the sticks tightly together.
摘要:
A method which comprises sequentially depositing individual shirred food casing strands into a holder, which, when filled, holds the strands in a desired configuration; stretching a tubular resilient plastic film having a stretched diameter large enough to accommodate the configuration and having a relaxed diameter small enough to tightly engage the external surfaces of strands located proximate the external surface of the configuration; inserting the configuration of strands into the tubular resilient plastic film when at least a portion of the film is so stretched and allowing the film to relax to tightly secure the strands in said configuration. The particular configuration comprises the configuration wherein, in the configuration, each strand has a strand diameter D, said strands being oriented such that central longitudinal axes of the strands are parallel; external surfaces of the strands contact external surfaces of adjacent strands; ends of the strands terminate in approximately the same plane; said plane being perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the strands, lines passing perpendicularly through the central axes of strands located proximate the external surface of the configuration intersect to form a hexagon; and strands internally within the configuration encompassed by adjacent contact six adjacent strands; and the sides of the hexagon have side lengths such that said lengths vary by less than 1D from each other.
摘要:
A package comprising, shirred, essentially cylindrically shaped, food casing strands, each of which has a strand diameter D. The strands are oriented in the package in such a way that longitudinal axes of the strands are parallel, external surfaces of the strands contact external surfaces of adjacent strands and ends of the strands terminate in approximately the same plane, which plane is perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the strands. The strands are further oriented so that lines passing perpendicularly through the central axes of strands located proximate the external surface of the package intersect to form a hexagon in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axes. Sides of the hexagon have side lengths such that the lengths vary by no more than one D from each other. Strands, internally within the package, i.e. which would not have an exteriorly exposed surface if all package wraps were removed, contact six adjacent strands. The package usually consists essentially of, n rows of strands and an external package retainer, usually a package wrap. Preferably each of the lines forming the hexagon passes through the central axes of either an equal number of strands or a number of strands which do not vary by more than one. Preferably, the package according to the present invention has an odd number of rows n, which is a number of 5 to 15.
摘要:
A process for the continuously packing shirred tubular food casings in a net, wherein the shirred tubular food casings are introduced parallel and at a mutual spacing between two endless running net film belts and at a right angle to the direction of movement of the belts, the upper net film is sealed with the lower net film in each case between two gathered-up food casings lying parallel, and thus they enclose the casings in the manner of a tube, and the ends of the tubular casings are enclosed by the net films projecting to a greater or lesser extent at both ends of each food casing, depending on the width of the net film belts used, by shrinking and, in so doing, form a circular opening the diameter of which is smaller than the diameter of the shirred food casing.
摘要:
A food casing article includes a hollow tubular core casing carrier provided with a casing retention element for holding the casing a predetermined distance from a connection means employed at one end of the tubular casing carrier, the retention element being formed by compressing together a part of a thermoplastic tube while softened to form an annular, double-walled flange extending outwardly from around the side walls of the tube.
摘要:
Disclosed is a supporting sheath for a longitudinally shirred packaging tube, comprising a generally tubular shaped supporting sheath comprised of a grid-like structure and having an inside diameter slightly larger than the outside diameter of the shirred packaging tube and a length substantially greater than the length of the shirred packaging tube, so that when a shirred packaging tube is placed inside of the supporting sheath, two protruding ends of the supporting sheath remain; and a pair of generally planar star-like disc elements, each including a central aperture therein and a plurality of point-like projections spaced around its outer circumference, each of the disc elements having an outer diameter defined by the ends of the point-like protrusions which is larger than the inside diameter of the supporting sheath; wherein the star-like disc elements are adapted to be slid over the protruding ends of the supporting sheath and are adapted to engage with their point-like protrusions the grid-openings of the supporting sheath when the sheath ends are folded back 180.degree. upon themselves. Also disclosed are a functional unit comprised of the shirred packaging tube and the supporting sheath as well as a method for producing the functional unit.
摘要:
An article of manufacture useful in the production of sausages comprising a hollow rod consisting of a longitudinally gathered packing tube and a surrounding support sheath of formable sheet material such as polyethylene with integral end walls each having a central opening therein, said integral end walls being formed in the shape of a truncated pyramid provided with at least two permanently shaped end wall edges radially arranged with respect to the center of the end walls; the end walls are formed by folding the projecting edges of the sheath to form outwardly-projecting, double-layer, triangular flaps; and heat-sealing the sides of the folds to each other; the openings in the end walls of the support sheath allow insertion of a filling tube of a filling machine into the hollow rod in the interior cavity of the support sheath.
摘要:
This invention relates to a stiff tubular hollow rod, said rod being substantially double-walled over its entire length and comprising one single length of flexible tubing, the wall of which is substantially free of openings and at least one of the surfaces of the tubing is provided with a coating, said rod comprising a shirred outer tube and an inner tube substantially free of folds arranged in the hollow space of said shirred outer tube constituting the casing for the inner tube, the inner tube being joined to the shirred outer tube at one of its ends and sealed at the other. The invention also relates to processes for making said hollow double-walled tubular rod of flexible tubing and to a sausage produced using said hollow tubular rod of flexible tubing.