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Shaping device and shaping method for forming rounded tips on the ends of sausages

US7762874B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

Markus Schlieber · Wain, DE
Siegfried Reutter · Eberhardzell, DE
Franz-Josef Müller · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
Manfred Bachtle · Schemmerhofen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 13, 2005
Grant date	Jul 27, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 8, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA22C11/104
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A shaping device and a method of forming rounded tips on the ends of sausages and of tying off and/or parting into individual portions a continuously produced sausage skein filled with paste material, with two oppositely located displacement assemblies, which move towards one another and between which the filled sausage skein can be moved in the transport direction, wherein the displacement assemblies are formed such that two opening sections are formed, which widen out in the transport direction, respectively opposite the transport direction, in a tying off and/or parting position between the two displacement assemblies.

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