Method and apparatus for separating a continuous string of sausage meat into individual sausages

US5145450A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Georg Staudenrausch · Rißegg, DE
• Gerhard Muller · Grafing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 30, 1991
• Grant date: Sep 8, 1992
• Expiry date: Jan 30, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A22C11/107
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a method and apparatus for making sausages in the form of a continuous string with subsequent separation thereof into individual sausages or into groups of interconnected sausages, means are provided for varying the separating operating in a simple manner according to the length of the sausage and the number of interconnected sausages in groups thereof desired, while still ensuring an accurated separating perfomance. In the spearating operation separator elements are mounted opposite one another on either side of the string that revolve synchronously in the conveying direction along respective opposite circular paths, their revolving speed being variable over the non-operative sector of their revolutions relative to the operative sector where their speed is compatible with the sausage conveying speed.