Patent
1984-02-02
1986-12-02
Abercrombie, Willie G.
17 49, 53 55, 53506, 53576, A22C 1102
Patent
active
046253629
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
The present invention is concerned with a method for automated manufacture of strings of sausages on a sausage stuffing machine, using hose material for the sausage casings that is first withdrawn from a supply roll, next to the stuffing machine, in extended lengths by the section, axially shirred and separated off whereafter each of such section, individually, is placed ahead of the force-meat ejector of the stuffing machine, stuffed there, by the portion, with force-meat while withdrawn in fractionated flow from a filling tube, divided off and closed off, and with a device for implementing such a method.
A method of the above-described type has been taught by DE-OS No. 29 41 872. The state-of-the-art method over the "classical" method of obtaining ready-to-use shirred hose lengths--so called "tubular corrugations"--from tube manufacturers, involves a number of considerable advantages beneficial to the sausage manufacturer, viz: thereof, takes considerably less space than tubular corrugations shirred ready-for-use; manufacturer, in any case is sterile and may be stored in dry rooms even over extended periods of time with no risk of bacterial contamination; required for shirring and stuffng, in unshirred material, takes place considerably more rapidly than with densely shirred tubular corrugations and, for this reason, can also be performed in continuous flow; tubular corrugations that, substantially, can be performed only manually, is eliminated; ahead of the force-meat ejector of the stuffing machine, may be mechanized thereby saving additional labor and avoiding the risk of damage to the tubular material when manually supplied to the filling tubes; "shir-stuff-clip" method as a whole can be automated and streamlined.
Nevertheless, an operator cannot be completely foregone in the prior known process. Unavoidable tolerances in the dimensions and the stretchability of the tubular material and tolerances in the shirred section lengths will require a permanent water of the material withdrawal on the filling tube and the timely manual switch off of the stuffing machine unless major unfilled residual lengths of tubular material for avoiding "stuffing into vacuity" and the disastrous consequences thereof are to be put up with.
It is the object of the invention to avoid that disadvantage and to improve the process of the afore-mentioned type to the effect that a completely automatic operation with no manual manipulation will be possible under an utmost exploitation of the tubular lengths shirred by the section.
That problem, in accordance with the invention, is solved in that the length of each shirred tubular section during withdrawal from the supply roll is measured in known per se manner, that, moreover, the length of the tubular material withdrawn from the filling tube is continually measured and compared with the section length previously measured during shirring, and that filling, dividing off and closing off is discontinued in response to that comparison.
Measuring of the material length in each shirred tubular section also in shirring direction prior to stuffing is already known in the art (German Patent Application No. P 31 34 698.7-27). However, in the prior state of art, such a measurement is carried out only for the purpose of controlling the shirring operation as such only with a view to the tubular length to be shirred, whereas, in the invention, the result of such measurement is constantly resorted to as a reference quantity in the later processing of the previously measured tubular sections on the stuffing machine thereby safeguarding an utmost utilization of the tubular material involved with a minimum of waste, with the measurement of the tube withdrawal from the stuffing tube ahead of the braking point where the material is not yet subjected to the internal pressure exerted by the stuffed-in force-meat, excluding falsifications of the comparison between the length measurements owing to a material stretch during stuffing.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the tubular leng
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Kollross Gunter
Steinbis Fritz K.
Abercrombie Willie G.
Crossetta William J.
Dunn Michael L.
Teepak, Inc.
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