Abstract: An improved dispenser-cutter for rolled fabric materials, particularly tacky materials such as wax-impregnated fibrous paper, which comprises a cutting blade mounted on a slideable carriage reciprocally movable between cutting and retracted positions, the carriage including roller elements arranged to guide the material to the cutting disposition, hold it during cutting action, free it from the cutting blade and position it against snap back after the cutting action, for easy safe access.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for stuffing viscous product into a shirred casing to produce stuffed casings having product-free end closures. The stuffing apparatus comprises a stuffing horn having disposed interiorly therein a product stoppering means axially translatable between a first site away from the discharge opening in the stuffing tube and a second site blocking the discharge opening in the stuffing tube, said product stoppering means comprising a plunger adapted to seat within and project sufficiently outward from the discharge opening of the stuffing horn so as to effectively sever and compact a product in the trailing end of a stuffed casing thereby effectively providing the trailing end of the stuffed casing adjacent the product with a product-free closure zone.