Method and apparatus for aligning labels on shirred food casing

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In a method for the continuous automated manufacture of stuffed food casings containing imprinted labels wherein tubular, material for the casings from a supply source is axially shirred into sections and the sections are stuffed with food emulsion into divided off portions, the improvement comprising measuring linear motion of the casing as the portions are filled with food emulsion; inputting the measured motion to a programmable logic controller; within the programmable logic controller calculating, an approximate distance between eye-mark bars separating the individual portions, where the calculation is based upon a known distance between eye-mark bars; based upon the calculated …