Patent ID: 8029840

Claim:
Method for producing and packaging sausage products, according to which said products are produced by continuously co-extruding beads and a starting base forming coated beads, said starting base comprising one or several hydrocolloids and intended for constituting a skin by calcium gelation when said coated beads pass into an elongated gelation bath, said coated beads being then cut up into portions intended to be packed in trays, said method being characterised in that said beads are co-extruded in parallel and according to a same co-extrusion speed, in that said coated beads are made to transit into a common gelation bath, in that said coated beads are brought side by side so as to be then cut up into portions by given means acting transversally on all said coated beads so as to form identical batches of products grouped and aligned to be loaded into packaging trays.