Patent ID: 6641474
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
A method of stuffing sausage casings with emulsion, comprisingtaking a plurality of casings of different lengths, preloading each of the casings on elongated hollow open ended sleeves shorter than the casings and having a diameter less than the casings by telescoping the casings on the outer surface of the sleeve; placing the preloaded sleeves in a gravity feed mechanism having a bottom end registering with an open end of a stuffing tube of a sausage making machine, moving the stuffing tube into a sleeve at the bottom end of the gravity feed mechanism, extruding emulsion through the stuffing tube into the casing mounted on the bottom end of the gravity feed mechanism until the casing is removed from the sleeve caused in part by the movement of emulsion entering the casing, removing the sleeve from the bottom of the gravity feed mechanism, allowing another preloaded sleeve to move by gravity to the bottom end of the gravity feed mechanism, and sequentially repeating the foregoing steps to fill the casings mounted on the remaining sleeves in the gravity feed mechanism.