Patent ID: 6123613
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
Machine to produce sausages with twisted casing, comprising a feeding pump for minced meat, a skin dressing tube located at the exit of said pump in order to sustain a flexible casing and to consent the introduction of meat into the casing itself for the formation of a continuous sausage, a device of separation and feed of the sausage provided with mobile pincers that can be brought near to each other in order to nip the casing and forming in this way a squeezing point between each sausage downstream and the rest of the sausage upstream, and controlling means for causing the rotation of the skin dressing tube for the twisting of the casing around said squeezing point in such a way as to obtain a separation tang between a sausage downstream and the rest of the sausage upstream, characterized in that said controlling means are synchronized with the movement of said pincers to start the rotation of said skin dressing tube only once a squeezing point has been formed and to maintain said squeezing point for predetermined period of time before forming a subsequent squeezing point.