Sausage casing storage with filling level monitoring

US11311018B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Baechtle · Schemmerhofen, DE
• Kurt Strohm · Biberach an der Riß, DE
• Jochen Merk · Biberach, DE
• Klaus Schmid · Riedlingen, DE
• Andreas Betz · Kohlhof, DE
• Gerhard Schliesser · Wain, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 24, 2020
• Grant date: Apr 26, 2022
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2203/0241
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and a device for separating shirred casing sticks, where a row R1 with a first number of consecutively disposed shined casing sticks in a shined casing stick storage is pushed in a first stroke cycle by a pusher along a sloped plane in the direction of a separation edge and one after the other over the separation edge and, once the last shined casing stick of the row has been pushed over the separation edge, the pusher moves back along the sloped plane and takes a row R2 with a second number of consecutively disposed shined casing sticks and pushes them in a further stroke cycle in the direction towards the separation edge, characterized in that a control device determines the filling level of shined casing sticks in the shined casing stick storage from the number of shined casing sticks pushed over the separation edge.