Patent ID: 9648885
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A22C,A23L,A23P

Claim:
1. A heat-treatment device for sausages of the co-extruded sausage type, said heat-treatment device comprising: sausage holding pipework extending between an introduction orifice and a discharge orifice through which sausages emerge from the sausage holding pipework, a sausage collecting device that is disposed above the introduction orifice, which emerges in the pipework at the introduction orifice and is intended to enable the sausages to be introduced into the sausage holding pipework, a pump propelling hot water into the sausage holding pipework upstream of the introduction orifice or in the sausage collecting device, a water level in the sausage collecting device being higher than a level of the discharge orifice and a level of the introduction orifice, and the sausage holding pipework comprising, between the introduction orifice and the discharge orifice, a part taking the form of a coil in a descending spiral relative to a flowing direction of the hot water in the descending spiral, and between the introduction orifice and the coil an ascending portion relative to a flowing direction of the hot water; the level of the introduction orifice being lower than a level of a top part of the coil.