Process and apparatus for shirring tubular casings
CA 1232727 A · Owner: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft · Inventors: Weinheimer, Alois; Regner, Richard; Romeike, Arno
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Disclosed is a process for shirring tubular casings in particular sausage casings, in which the casing is conveyed in the direction of its longitudinal axis and shirred against a counterforce by means of a shirring tool. The shirred tubing portion is divided into individual shirred sticks of a predetermined length and if, appropriate, the cut-off shirred sticks are further compressed. While being shirred and in the shirred state the casing is internally supported. For cutting-off a shirred tubing portion, the transport of the casing in the direction of its longitudinal axis is momentarily interrupted, the internal support is withdrawn from the severing region, and the unshirred or deshirred …
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- Granted February 16, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended February 16, 2005.
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