Net-like tubular support sheathing for rod made up of a lengthwise shirred casing

US4263942A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Richard Lenhart · Wiesbaden, DE
• Armin Kostner · Wiesbaden, DE
• Horst Hellbauer · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 1979
• Grant date: Apr 28, 1981
• Expiry date: Mar 26, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S206/802
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A support sheathing for use, for example, on tubular sausage casings, the sheathing forming a container for a cylindrical hollow rod made of a shirred tubular casing, the sheathing comprising a heat-shrinkable, net-like, plastic tubular material, the sheathing surrounding the tubular casing about its outer cylindrical surface and forming integral end portions for covering end portions of said tubular casing, said integral end portions of the sheathing having annular openings therein surrounded by an annular bead, whereby the end openings of the sheathing permit access to the interior cavity of the hollow rod.