Improvements in the Method of Preparing and Holding Sausage Skins or Casings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 10th June, 1893
COMI LEIE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Preparing and Holding Sausage
Skins or Casings.
I PETER FRANCIS TURNER, Merchant, of 612 West 39th Street, in the City,
County and State of New York, United States of America do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Sausage skins or casings as sold commercially are usually in balls or packages,
and the several skins of each ball or package are mingled together in such a way
that it is difficult to find the ends, and the skins or casings frequently become so
tangled that the whole mass is thrown away and, moreover, where there is no loss
in this way the loss of time in handling them is great, as they are with more or less
difficulty separated from each other.
The object of my invention is to obviate these difficulties, and provide a method
of arranging and holding the skins or casings which will enable an end to be always
found, which also causes the skins or casings to be held straight and ready for use,
and which therefore enables every skin or casing to be used.
To this end my invention consists in a method of preparing, arranging and
holding sausage casings, which method will be hereinafter described and claimed.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
Specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in
both the views.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a reel having a series of sausage skins or casings
wound thereon, and illustrates the method of holding the skins or casings; and
Figure 2 is a detail view, showing the method of uniting the several skins or
casings.
The sausage skins or casings 10 are of the usual kind and my method consists
briefly in tying the skins or casings together end to end and winding them upon a
reel 12, or other similar revoluble holder. The skins or casings 10 are united
together so as to form a continuous string by tying them in knots 11, as best
shown in Figure 2, the string thus formed being then evenly wound upon the
reel 12, or other holder. When the casings are to be used, the reel may be hung
upon a supporting rod or may be laid upon the floor, or otherwise supported, and
the skins or casings pulled off easily and rapidly as required. As the skins or
casings are pulled off, the operator, as fast as a knot is reached, cuts the skins or
casings on each side of the knot so as to leave them open and ready to be
stuffed.
It will be seen that this method enables the skins or casings to be conveniently
and rapidly handled and that the only parts wasted are the knots.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described method of preparing and holding sausage skins or
casings, which consists in tying the skins or casings together end to end so as to
form a continuous string and then winding the string of skins or casings upon a
reel or similar article, substantially as described.
2. As an improved article of manufacture, a spool or roll of sausage skins or

page_text: casings, comprising a revoluble reel, and a string of sausage skins or casings tied
end to end and wound, upon the reel, substantially as described.
Dated April 13th 1893.
D
TA TUD NED
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.