Patent ID: 9585406
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: A22C

Claim:
1. An uncooked, dry or semi-dry sausage product comprising a tubular casing comprising a web of textile material, said casing comprising a longitudinal seam having a sealing strip, wherein a discontinuous layer of sealing points comprising a sealing polymer is situated on the sealing strip, said web of textile material is coated directly with a thermoplastic polymeric coating, and said sealing polymer is melted together with said thermoplastic polymeric coating to bond said sealing strip to said web of textile material coated with said thermoplastic polymeric coating, the thermoplastic polymeric coating has softening temperature in the range from 80 to 200° C., wherein said coating is a polyether-ester or polyether-block amide; and if said coating is the polyether-ester, then the sealing polymer is an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, and if said coating is the polyether-block amide, then the sealing polymer is an aliphatic copolyamide.