Patent ID: 7404710

Claim:
Device for producing and packaging sausage type products, characterised in that it includes: a plurality of transversally aligned co-extrusion heads ( 1 ) that extrude a plurality of formed beads; a gelation container ( 2 ) that is horizontally elongated and is in the upstream extremity of which said plurality of co-extrusion heads ( 1 ) discharge said plurality of formed beads (B); means for bringing together, side by side the plurality of formed beads (B) prior to a point at which the plurality of formed beads that has been brought side by side is cut up into portions said means comprising a converging section formed by the downstream extremity portion of the gelation container; common means ( 3 ) for portioning said plurality of formed beads (B) into portions and acting transversally on the plurality of beads that are brought together; and means for loading into trays the portions formed at the outlet of said portioning means.