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Apparatus for feeding sausage loops to a smoking rod

US5163864A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 10, 1991
Grant dateNov 17, 1992
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Expiry dateSep 10, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA22C11/00
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for feeding a chain of connected sausages and for suspending the sausages in the form of loops on a smoking rod in which the outlet end of the feeding means is located above the path described by the transport hooks and the end of the transport belt, which supports the sausage loops, extends in laterally staggered relationship with respect to the feeding means. Further the transport belt revolves in an approximately horizontal plane and the transport hooks are in each case attached to a downwardly directed supporting arm approximately vertical to the plane of the transport belt, the transport hooks branching off laterally from the supporting arm and being directed obliquely upwardly at an acute angle.

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