Patent ID: 6050888
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing chain-like food products such as sausages or the like, comprising the steps of:pinching a stuffed natural intestine portion;pulling the stuffed natural intestine portion so as to reduce the diameter of an inner peripheral surface of an unstuffed straightened natural intestine portion following the stuffed natural intestine portion; andsupplying a stuffing material into the unstuffed straightened natural intestine portion to form the stuffed natural intestine portion, holding in a cylindrical shape the inner peripheral surface of the unstuffed straightened natural intestine portion with the diameter thereof reduced, imparting a rotational force to the inner peripheral surface of the unstuffed straightened natural intestine portion held in the cylindrical shape so as to rotate the stuffed natural intestine portion preceding the unstuffed straightened natural intestine portion via the unstuffed straightened natural intestine portion, and forming a twist in a pinched portion of the stuffed natural intestine portion.