Abstract: An apparatus for producing sausages shirrs tubular material and positions it on a stuffing horn for filling with forcemeat at a filling station. Transfer means may convey the shirred material to another location at which the stuffing takes places. The filled tubular material may be formed into linked sausages.

Abstract: For cyclically charging the filling tube of a sausage stuffing and closing machine with ready-for-stuffing tubular casing lengths, a tubular casing material flatly wound upon a supply roll is first withdrawn, opened and, in respectively one section length, drawn upon a support. Thereupon the drawn-on casing section is divided off the material cord and, along with the support, is placed ahead of the charging tube for conveyance thereto while at the same time, a new casing section is drawn onto another support to repeat these working steps in permanent alternation of the two supports. The invention resides in that each support after being placed ahead of the charging tube along with the casing section drawn thereonto is pushed in the same direction in which the drawing onto the support was performed beforehand, onto the charging tube up to the stopping means, whereupon the support is advanced in the same direction, pulled out of the retained casing section and, finally, removed laterally.

Abstract: A method for producing sausages comprises shirring tubular material and positioning it on a stuffing horn. The shirred material on the stuffing horn is stuffed with meat product to form sausage products which may be linked.

Abstract: Hose material for the continuous automated manufacture of sausage wherein tubular material for sausage casing from a supply source is axially shirred by shirring means into shirred sections, of continuously measured length; the shirred sections are stuffed with force meat into divided up and closed off portions with the amount of tubular material utilized being continually measured; and, the entire process is controlled by memory, comparator and means responsive thereto, all of which are activated by register marks spaced at equal lengths along the length of the hose material, to maximize utilization of shirred casing and to avoid stuffing into a void.