Abstract: Apparatus for separation of animal intestines. The apparatus performs automatically all stages of the separation of the gold beater strand of the small intestine from the stomach of a beast and also beats the separated strand so that the final product may be used without further processing. The small intestine tube is first severed from the small intestine and pulled over a horn member, the small intestine then being severed longitudinally and the upper portion of the severed tube then being slit into a number of strands, each of which is then beaten by rollers and fed over a final member of the apparatus for collection.