Patent ID: 6514134
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
A process for the production of chain-like foodstuff products comprising:pumping a pasty filling material through a filling tube which is rotatable about its longitudinal axis, and introducing the filling material into a tubular skin which partially surrounds the filling tube, feeding the filled skin to a portioning device having a plurality of dividing elements which are disposed in opposite paired relationship and which are movable synchronously together with the filled skin, engaging the filled skin by two of the dividing elements which are disposed in opposite paired relationship and acted upon by a clamping force, and applying a torque to the skin by rotating the filling tube at least in a portion between an exit opening of the filling tube and the portioning device and locally preventing the filled skin from rotating by application of the clamping force by the dividing elements, so that a first twist-off location is produced, and at a location spaced from the first.twist-off location, producing a further twist-off location on the filled skin, to produce portioned sausages, wherein the filling material flows into the skin radially at least partially through openings provided in an end region of the filling tube and the diameter of the skin is increased in the end region of the filling tube by virtue of the at least partial radial flow into same.