Patent ID: 6656031
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
A method for removing the skin (7) from a sausage (1), comprising the step that an end portion (2) of the sausage is cut off, that the skin (7) is grasped by gripping means (3), that an incision is made in the sausage by a knife (6), that the gripping means (3) and the sausage (1) undergo a relative displacement in the longitudinal direction of the sausage (1), and that the skin (7) is pulled off in the longitudinal direction, characterized in that the gripping means (3) grasps the skin (7) in diametrically opposed positions, the knife (6) cuts the skin (7) in the longitudinal direction of the sausage (1),said gripping means (3) are moved a distance transversely of the longitudinal direction of the sausage once the gripping means have grasped the skin (7), and an abutment member (5) prevents the sausage (1) from moving with the gripping means when said gripping means are displaced, for which reason the skin (7) is pulled off.