Abstract:
AN APPARATUS FOR EXPELLING AIR FROM A BAGGED PRODUCT, SUCH AS A BAGGED MEAT PRODUCT, IS DESCRIBED. THE APPARATUS INCLUES A RECEPTACLE FOR CONTAINING A LIQUID, CARRIER MEANS FOR IMMERSING THE BAGGED PRODUCT IN THE LIQUID TO EXPEL THE AIR FROM THE BAG, MEANS FOR MAINTAINING THE OPEN END OF THE BAG ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE LIQUID WHILE THE BAG IS IMMERSED IN THE LIQUID, AND MEANS FOR SECURELY CLOSING THE OPEN END OF THE BIG WHILE SAID BAG IS STILL IMMERSED IN THE LIQUID.
Abstract:
The term ''''food casing,'''' as employed throughout this application and in the appended claims, is intended to include, but not be restrictive of, those tubular food casings fabricated from such materials as collagen, cellulose, regenerated cellulose, cellulose having fibers embedded therein, polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene, polyethylene, polyvinylidene chloride, and the like. These food casings are also known by those skilled in the art as ''''sausage casings'''' and are generally employed as containers or molds into which is stuffed or encased a food item, such as raw meat emulsions, meat chunks, discrete meat cuts and the like. These encased food items can then be frozen or, if desired, processed, as by cooking and curing, and items such as salami and bologna sausages, spiced meat loaves, ham loaves, hams, and the like can be obtained.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for positioning a flat circular disc in a large sausage casing so that after the food casing has been stuffed with a food emulsion and the thusly stuffed food emulsion has been cooked and cured, there is obtained a large sausage product having a pre-flattened end.
Abstract:
Viscous food product such as ground fresh meat is stuffed into tubular plastic film packaging bags through a stuffing horn disposed longitudinally concentrically of the bag being filled, the product flow is stoppered when the bag is filled to the desired extent by a stopper disposed to move concentrically reciprocally in the stuffing horn, the filled bag is advanced forward of the stoppered stuffing horn to a position where a necked-down product-free portion of the bag interior adjacent its open end is in registration with a bag closing-clipping means and the filled bag is closed and clipped sealed at the neck.
Abstract:
Apparatus is disclosed for stuffing a conglomerate meat mass into a flexible container which comprises a stuffing means, shutoff and/or severing means mounted on the outlet end of said stuffing means comprising a member mounted on the outlet end of the stuffing means and a cooperating moving member adjacent to and aligned with said mounted member and means for advancing and retracting said cooperating moving member into and out of positive engagement with said mounted member wherein such engagement seals said outlet end of the stuffing means, severs product protuding therefrom and stops passage of product therefrom.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for packaging an article in a flexible bag comprises the use of a conveyor for transporting the article to a loading station where the article is raised from the conveyor to a bagging position by a plurality of horizontally disposed, vertically movable fingers supporting the article. A flexible bag is placed over the article and over the fingers, the fingers are then lowered to a slack bag pulling position and thence to their initial position while depositing the bagged article onto the conveyor which removes it from the fingers and from the loading station.
Abstract:
A METHOD AND APPARATUS ARE PROVIDED FOR CONSTRICTING AND COMPACTING THE LAST FILLED END OF A SAUSAGE CASING AFTER IT HAS BEEN STUFFED WITH A FOOD EMULSION, THEREBY FACILITATING THE APPLICATION OF A CLIP TO CLOSE ITS LAST FILLED END. THERE IS ALSO PROVIDED A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING FOOD EMULSION FLOW BACK DURING THE STUFFING OF, AND AFTER, A SAUSAGE CASING HAS BEEN STUFFED WITH A FOOD EMULSION.