Apparatus for transporting sausages filled in a continuous sausage casing
US5085612A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 11, 1990 |
| Grant date | Feb 4, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 11, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA22C15/001
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus for transporting sausages, which are filled in a continuous sausage casing, by suspending said sausages in the form of loops from reception hooks. The reception hooks are connected to an endless, driven conveyor belt in spaced relationship with one another, the conveyor belt circulating round two deflection wheels with the hooks being loaded with the sausage loops in the area of a first leg of the conveyor belt (transport leg) and returning without any load in the area of a second leg (free leg). To allow adjustment of the spacing between the hooks depending on the size and the nature of the chain of sausages, the hooks are positively connected to the conveyor belt in the transport leg and are frictionally connected to the conveyor belt in the free leg.
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