Abstract: A mincing disc used in a meat mincing machine having partial areas in a field of perforations of the mincing disc which are arrange in an imagined corridor at both sides of the central through opening which extends over the surface of the mincing disc, encloses the central through opening of the disc, and touches the ventral through opening with both linear boundary lines.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing predetermined quantities of a meat product, inc which the apparatus comprises a twin vane concentric pump with an inlet and an outlet circumferentially spaced from one another, and a pair of independently movable vanes. During operation, one of the vanes is positioned between the inlet and outlet to permit pressurization of meat chunks in a chamber communicating with an outlet opening. The other vane is advanced toward the outlet with the outlet valve closed until a predetermined pressure is reached, at which point the outlet valve is opened to dispense a predetermined quantity of meat product. Similar to single vane meat pumps, the disclosed twin vane pump is capable of handling large meat chunks while causing relatively little damage to the chunks.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing predetermined quantities of a meat product, inc which the apparatus comprises a twin vane concentric pump with an inlet and an outlet circumferentially spaced from one another, and a pair of independently movable vanes. During operation, one of the vanes is positioned between the inlet and outlet to permit pressurization of meat chunks in a chamber communicating with an outlet opening. The other vane is advanced toward the outlet with the outlet valve closed until a predetermined pressure is reached, at which point the outlet valve is opened to dispense a predetermined quantity of meat product. Similar to single vane meat pumps, the disclosed twin vane pump is capable of handling large meat chunks while causing relatively little damage to the chunks.

Abstract: The invention refers to a device for the manufacture of sausages with a filling unit with a filling tube for filling sausage sleeves and a length unit for the controlled delivery of the filled sausage sleeves. In order to be able to simply and reliably close sausages of equal length and equal volume, in particular also with natural casings as the sausage sleeve, a clip module is arranged directly before the length unit in the transport direction of the filled sausage sleeves for closing the filled sausage sleeves.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for producing and filling sausage meat, the apparatus comprising a producing station for producing sausage meat and a filling station for filling the sausage meat produced by the producing station. The apparatus and the method are characterized in that, on the basis of the amount of sausage meat needed in the filling process or by the filling station, sausage meat is ejected in the producing process or by the producing station at at least a rate which lies between the rate of a deactivated and a full-load producing process and of a corresponding producing station, respectively.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mincing disc used in a meat mincing machine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sausage producing device comprising a charging pipe for stuffing sausage skins and a length-dimensioning unit for controlled removal of the stuffed sausage skins.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a vane pump used for dividing a pasty and compressible substance into portions and comprising a pump housing and a rotor which is arranged eccentrically in said pump housing and which is adapted to be rotated, and further comprising vanes which are supported within said rotor such that they are radially displaceable, said vanes defining with the wall of the pump housing, the base and the cover of said housing, as well as the outer surface of the rotor, vane cells and cooperating sealingly with said components, and said pump housing having an inlet and an outlet which have arranged between them a compression sector and a dosing sector, and a pressure-relief valve being arranged at least in the area of the dosing sector.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the subdivision of a pasty and compressible mass, in particular sausage meat, in portions by means of a vane cell pump. To achieve a high portioning accuracy in simple fashion, each conveying cell filled with sausage meat passes through a metering sector disposed between a compression sector and a discharge sector after having passed through the compression sector, an excessive amount of sausage meat being pressed back into the subsequent conveying cell still in communication with the inlet from the conveying cell with highly compressed sausage meat by means of a balancing cylinder piston unit located in the boundary area between the compression sector and the metering sector.

Abstract: In a method for making sausages, in which the sausage meat exiting from a filling machine is filled into a sausage skin pulled off a skin caterpillar to form a sausage rope and the rope is then divided into individual sausages by twisting it between every two adjacent sausage portions, the improvement wherein the spacing in the skin between each two adjacent sausage portions in the rope is increased by pulling the leading sausage portion forwards together with the sausage skin at a speed greater than the sausage meat expulsion speed during the dividing operation.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for making sausages in the form of a continuous string with subsequent separation thereof into individual sausages or into groups of interconnected sausages, means are provided for varying the separating operating in a simple manner according to the length of the sausage and the number of interconnected sausages in groups thereof desired, while still ensuring an accurated separating perfomance. In the spearating operation separator elements are mounted opposite one another on either side of the string that revolve synchronously in the conveying direction along respective opposite circular paths, their revolving speed being variable over the non-operative sector of their revolutions relative to the operative sector where their speed is compatible with the sausage conveying speed.

Abstract: Apparatus for dividing a continuous sausage skein coming for a stuffing machine into individual sausages in which rotating V-shaped plates for constricting the skein, that are relatively thin in the area of their V cutouts compared to their remaining wall thickness, are obliquely disposed in opposite directions relative to one another so that they staggeredly interlock as they constrict the sausage skein.

Abstract: A vane pump for conveying pasty masses, in particular sausage meat, comprising a pump housing and a rotor, which is eccentrically arranged within the pump housing and which is caused to rotate. Radially continuous vanes are supported on the rotor in a radially displaceable manner that define angular conveying cells with the wall of the pump housing and cooperate with the wall to produce a sealing effect. An adjustable pressure piece is mounted in a radial recess in the wall of the pump housing, the pressure piece replacing the contour of the wall of the pump housing with its surface which faces the vanes. Adjustment of the pressure piece adjusts the pressure applied to the vanes in a radial direction in the pressure area of the pump prior to its outlet.

Abstract: The present invention solves the problem of clogging in the case of an apparatus for conducting a pasty mass, preferably sausage meat, under feed pressure through a tube, which carries said mass and the interior of which communicates via an annular groove and an annular gap with an external supply means for a lubricant which is to be forced under high pressure between the inner wall of the tube and the surface of the pasty mass, said problem being solved in such a way that an inner annular recess of the tube has arranged therein a sleeve-shaped sliding piston, the end face of which is acted upon by the lubricant in an annular groove, said sliding piston being adapted to be axially displaced within said inner annular recess against the force of a pretensioned spring in such a way that, in the case of low lubricant pressure, it closes the annular gap by means of an annular shoulder provided on the end face and protruding axially beyond the the annular groove in said end face and that, in the case of high lubric

Abstract: A method and apparatus for dividing into individual sausages a sausage strand exiting from a filler machine, wherein the sausage strand is rotated about its longitudinal axis and constricted by revolving constrictor elements, the thus divided sausages being provented from being further rotated, in which the apportioned size and length of the sausages can be varied by varying the revolving speed of the constrictor elements during the inoperative phase of their revolution relative to their revolving speed during their engagement with the sausage strand by providing the constrictor elements with a separate electric drive mechanism, the rotational speed of which is controlled by an electronic contol unit during its revolution.

Abstract: Sausages leaving a sausage-making machine as a string are arranged into groups suitable for packing by transferring them onto a conveyor belt, subsequently orienting them with their respective longitudinal axis extending obliquely with respect to the conveying direction of the conveyor belt and thereafter restraining the sausages to turn them to a transverse orientation relative to the conveying direction so they can be discharged in groups.

Abstract: In a machine for filling sausage skins with sausage meat having a main part provided with a discharge means, a storage receptacle arranged on the main part, and a transport means for transporting the sausage meat from the storage receptacle to the discharge means, the improvement comprising in the upper part of the storage receptacle a wall component of the receptacle adapted to be pivoted away.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for drawing off deformable masses containing air, such as sausage masses. The mass is transferred in a stream from a supply space into a filling cylinder where a vacuum is generated relative to the space to remove air from the mass, and the transferred mass is then ejected from the filling cylinder by means of a piston. To transfer the mass quickly and remove air from it completely, the mass stream is guided, during its transfer into the filling cylinder in such a way that, as it enters the filling cylinder, it first moves towards the cylinder wall at an angle to the direction of the piston. Moreover, during filling the level of mass in the filling cylinder is maintained at an essentially constant filling height so that a constant volume of free space remains above the mass in the filling cylinder.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatic continuous or stepwise delivery of sausage loops hanging adjacent to one another from a receiver under which a smoking rod is arranged that is slidable in the feed direction of the receiver relative thereto.

Abstract: Apparatus for consecutively metering discrete amounts of a divisible mass, particularly sausage meat, including feeding means (7, 96) for said mass adapted to be operated in time with the metering operation and followed by a power-operated cutoff device, the control element (6) of which is adapted to be controlled by a measuring device (28, 29, 30) also effective to control the control element (9) of the feeding means (7, 96) in proportion to the mass flowing therethrough, wherein positive control and coordination of the movements of the cutoff device (1) and the feeding means (7, 96) and substantially full utilization of the installed driving power at any moment is accomplished by providing that the control elements (6, 9) for the cutoff device (1) and the feeding means (7, 96) are actuated by one and the same fluid and are interconnected in series and/or by providing that the control element (6) for the cutoff device (1) is continually supplied with the full fluid flow from a fluid pressure source (10).