JPS627809B2 - - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention involves forming a sausage casing into a hollow bellows by mechanically pleating a relatively long length towards a receiving member in a first working step; Automatic production of successive rows of sausages using synthetic tube material for sausage casings, which are brought individually in a working step to the filling position of a sausage filling machine, where they are filled section by section with sausage stuffing and closed. and a filling tube or tubes, each of which occupies a filling position, a filling-closing machine with a closing device, and a transfer device, the transfer device being assigned to the transfer device. Composite wound on storage rollers for sausage casings of the type adapted to transfer cycle by cycle the tube material sections separated from the continuous tube material by means of a cutting device with a The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically producing continuous sausage rows using tube material.

For the production of sausages, so-called sausage filling machines are used, in which the meat filled through a hopper is finely ground into sausage stuffing and is passed through a laterally projecting filling tube.
It is pushed into the casing material which has previously been placed over the filling tube and closed at the front end.

Since the replacement of natural casings for sausage casings by synthetic tube materials that can be produced in any length, they have been applied to two different types of sausage production: on the one hand, especially when the casing diameter is large; On the one hand, single-piece sausage production was carried out, and on the other hand, for small casing diameters, continuous sausage row production was carried out. In the case of single sausage production, a ready-made casing piece of length equal to the individual sausages, closed at one end, is pulled over the filling tube of the filling machine and filled with sausage stuffing, then at the other end. Close. In the case of continuous sausage row production, a piece of tube material several times the length of the sausage is placed over the filling tube of the sausage filling machine, then filled section by section with sausage stuffing and tightened. and close it. This forms a continuous row of sausages.

Casing covering with an electrically driven friction wheel accessible towards the filling pipe in order to simplify the task of covering the filling pipe of a sausage filling machine with a long casing piece and to save time spent on this purpose Devices are known in which the friction wheel mechanically completely drags the casing, which is first manually attached to the filling tube, over the filling tube (DE 61 775 and DE 2 123 732). book). This device was specified for natural casings and was actually used only for this purpose. In contrast, other strategies are used to overlay synthetic tube materials. That is, the tube material is folded in the axial direction to form a relatively rigid hollow bellows body, and then this bellows body is placed over the filling tube of a sausage filling machine and held at a predetermined position at the end of the filling tube. The tube material is braked and pulled out through the dropped casing brake member and filled with sausage stuffing.

In order to produce such hollow bellows bodies, so-called folding machines are used, which process the length of the filled tube while simultaneously handling extremely long tube materials with care and sensitive tube materials. The hollow bellows body is being improved more and more to bring it to a limited length. Due to the significant cost of such machinery and the severe labor required by highly skilled personnel to operate and maintain it, rutting is a common practice in casing production, similar to the ready-made production of single sausage casings described above. It has become carried out directly in conjunction with tube material production in factories and only some sausage manufacturers have some machinery and factories for crimping. In any case, the hollow bellows body, which is produced much more quickly than in the case of processing, is stored temporarily.

However, the hollow rod-shaped tube material that is pleated to form a bellows body has several significant disadvantages, as follows.

That is, despite tight compaction, the tube material that is folded into a hollow bellows takes up more space than if it were rolled flat around the storage roller. This results in significantly increased transport and storage costs.

Furthermore, the cost of packaging the hollow bellows to prevent damage during transportation increases significantly, which not only increases the cost of packaging, but also requires additional costs to remove the package. .

Furthermore, it is costly to fit the bellows over the filling pipe of the sausage filling machine. One aspect of this is that the majority of casing materials lack flexibility in the dry state, especially for pleating and filling, and this flexibility can only be obtained by special impregnation with water. It will be done. On the other hand, since most casing materials in their moist state become breeding grounds for bacteria, the tube material must first be re-dried after folding in the casing factory and then re-dry in the sausage maker for fresh filling. Due to the fold density of the pleated hollow bellows, such moistening may require a considerable amount of time compared to non-pleated materials. Instead, if the hollow bellows body is intentionally made flexible and then the hollow bellows body is manually placed over the filling tube, careful handling is required.

Furthermore, an automatically working folding device for folding the tube material (Swiss patent no. 598766)
German Patent No. 14 32 560) as well as a sausage filling machine of special construction (German Patent No. 14 32 560) are known, which sausage filling machines are equipped with an axially movable filling tube, the filling tube being The tubular material is pierced through a precisely oriented hollow bellows which falls successively from the magazine into the gripper after closing the gripper and thereby brings the tube material onto the filling tube into the filling position. However, such machines are only used in the case of materials to be processed without wetting, such as cellulose and collagen, which have an excellent inherent stiffness that maintains their dimensional stability even inside the magazine and the gripping device. Ru. Furthermore, the forward and backward movement of the filling tube results in undesirably long dead times and the known filling tube rotor (French patent no. 2101614 specification) is prevented.

Moreover, in conjunction with such filling tube rotors, attempts have already been made to attach tube material arriving directly from the storage roller to the filling tube, which does not necessarily occupy the filling position (French Patent No. 239 336 and German Pat. Patent No. 2721392 specification). In this case, negative pressure was initially used to open the flat tube material and attach it to the filling tube. Therefore, in this case the tube material is first guided through a vacuum chamber for opening and then gripped by a controlled, pivotable, longitudinally movable suction gripper, which transfers the tube material onto the filling tube. Pull it over. However, devices known on the basis of such overlays can be used, in connection with routine use, to attach relatively short single sausage casings, possibly no longer than the filling tube, but hollow Apart from the tube material section for the production of continuous sausage rows, which has to be used on a filling tube which is pivoted into the filling position with a bellows configuration, it is unsuitable for long sausage casings.

This explains all the reasons why, despite the above-mentioned disadvantages, the ready-made production of single sausage casings as well as the production of hollow bellows for the production of continuous sausage rows has traditionally been left to casing manufacturers. Although this ultimately reduces the additional costs and costs that the sausage factory or butcher has to bear directly or indirectly in relation to the price of the hollow bellows, it is also possible to There is also the risk of damage to the tube material during handling.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to avoid the above-mentioned disadvantages and to significantly save mechanical and labor costs as well as the packaging and storage costs required between production and processing in the filling machine, and to achieve this by: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus for automatically manufacturing continuous sausage rows, thereby enabling economical sausage manufacturing.

Starting from a method of the type mentioned at the outset, which is carried out in two working steps, the task according to the invention is achieved in a direct successive working step by collecting the ready-to-fill dampening state arriving from the storage roller. The tube material in the tube is kept in place during the pleating process and kept open at all times near the filling position via a guide separate from and coaxially extending with respect to the receiving member, so that the tube material is folded during the filling tube cycle. At the same time, the previously pleated hollow bellows body is filled and closed after the hollow bellows body is moved to a filling position by the receiving member. It was resolved by this.

The invention is therefore resolved according to the interpretation generally advocated heretofore, and that the production of continuous sausage rows is only by preparing hollow bellows bodies which are compacted as tightly as possible in a high-power folding machine. The crimping process is improved and the crimping process takes place immediately after the filling and closing process, ie the crimping takes place directly in time and in the same cycle as the filling and closing process. The filling and closing process, which is by nature very slow, determines the time unit for the production of sausages, so that several times as much time is required for the folding as compared to the previously known production of hollow bellows bodies on high-power folding machines. This makes it possible to process the tube material with great care using a significantly simpler pleating machine, and in particular to ensure a particularly intensive and reliable transfer of the tube material to the filling position. Folding becomes completely unnecessary. By using a receiving element for subsequent transport to the filling position, the housing material can be very well protected. This is because the casing material is mechanically held at all times from the start of pleating until processing in the filling machine. This makes it possible to moisten the material arriving from the storage rollers even in the case of casing materials that are not naturally flexible enough for filling, so that they are tightly compacted. It becomes unnecessary to soak the hollow bellows body with water over a long period of time, as was previously required. In addition, the housing material is already in a damp state ready for filling prior to the pleating.
This is because the guidance and shape retention of the tube material is ensured by the receiving element until processing in the filling position.

The opening of tube material using guides separate from and coaxial with the receiving member is known per se in conventional ruggers (U.S. Pat. No. 3,209,398). In the case of this known machine, the receiving element is already part of the rotating body; however, it is not used for transferring the tube material to the filling station of the filling machine for sausage stuffing; It is used to temporarily hold the hollow bellows during multiple post-compression processes, and then the bellows is scraped from the receiving member. This known rugger therefore also only serves to produce perfectly compacted bellows bodies as dense as possible in a quick and efficient manner.

Therefore, by the method according to the invention, tube material can be wound flat on rollers while temporarily pleating it with a device that is simpler than known pleating machines, and at the same time handling the tube material with care. The production of continuous sausage rows using fresh tube material can be carried out completely automatically.

Starting from a device of the type mentioned at the outset, which is already known from the above-mentioned device, the opening and closing of the tube material is carried out by means of negative pressure (French Patent No. 2 390 336), the object is solved by the invention. According to US Pat. The folding device is adapted to be folded directly toward the member and formed into a hollow bellows body, and the folding device further includes a guide body that is separate from the receiving member and extends in the longitudinal direction coaxially with respect to the receiving member. The tube material can be pulled out during pleating with the guide held in place to release the tube material through the guide, and a cutting device is provided between the guide and the transfer device. The solution is that the guide body and/or the transport device are arranged and can be moved axially away from each other in order to form the cutting gap.

It is furthermore advantageous if the transfer device has at least two filling tubes which can be moved alternately in front of the sausage stuffing outlet of the filling and closing machine, and the rugging device has at least two filling tubes which can be moved in front of the sausage stuffing outlet of the filling and closing machine. It is located in front of a filling tube separate from the filling tube it occupies.

It is furthermore advantageous if the transfer device consists of a rotary head with preferably two receiving tubes offset by 180° in the circumferential direction, which rotary head gradually adjusts the offset angle of the folding tubes. of the two successive switching positions, in which in the first switching position the rugging tube is aligned with the axis of the rubbing device and in the second switching position the rugging tube is immovable in the filling machine. Each is aligned with a single fill tube provided.

It is furthermore advantageous if the transfer device has longitudinally extending cylindrical cavities which serve as receiving elements, which cavities are alternately arranged immovably in front of the creasing device or in the filling and closing machine. Each of the bellows is movable in front of a single fill tube and axially slidable to fit the bellows over the fill tube at a position in front of the fill tube.

The invention will now be explained with reference to the illustrated embodiment.

In the three embodiments shown, the sausage filling machine 10 is equipped with a feed hopper 12 for the meat to be ground in the filling machine, the meat being stuffed into a synthetic tube material and closed with a clasp closure known per se. The device closes it with a closing catch and separates it into sausages, which leave the filling machine again under pressure via the lateral stuffing outlet as so-called sausage stuffing.

In the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, on the stuffed meat discharge side of the filling machine 10, there is disposed a rotary disk 14 which is provided with two filling tubes 16 and 18 and which can be switched 180 degrees by a drive device (not shown). In the respective switching position of the filling tubes, one of the filling tubes, e.g. While pulling out the combined tube bellows body 20 through the so-called casing braking member 22,
A continuous row of sausages can be produced by filling the tube bellows with stuffed meat for sausages,
Said sausage rows are separated by closing each two clasps 28 between each two sausages by means of a schematically illustrated clasp closing device 24 to form sausages 26 .

The other filling tube 18 is located in the position shown in front of a rugging device, generally designated 30, and is made of synthetic tube material fed by the rugging device from a winding drum 32 via a water tank 34. The continuous flat tube material 36 is axially pleated on the fill tube 18 to form a bellows 38 and, once the desired length is reached, the remaining continuous tube material 36 is cut by a cutting device 40. be separated from For this purpose, the rugging device has a carriage 46 which can be slid over an elongated bed 42 by means of a power cylinder 44, on which a pair of squeezing rollers 48, two pairs of feeding rollers are mounted in a manner known per se. A guide roller 50 and a pair of rug rollers 52 forming a rug tool are arranged, which roller pairs are driven by a drive, not shown, for conveying and rugging the continuous tube material 36. It is possible. In the area of the feed guide roller 50 and the rugging roller pair 52, inside the continuous tube material 36 there is a rugging tube 54 shown in phantom in floating arrangement.
is located, and when the desired bellows length is reached on the filling tube 18, the crimping tube is moved by a clamping jaw mechanism 56 consisting of two or more clamping jaws operated by pneumatic or hydraulic forces. It can then be tightened through the pleated tube material.

As shown in FIG. 2, the rotating disk 14 has a perforation 58 radially outside each filling tube 18 through which a cannula 59 is inserted into a power cylinder 61 arranged in the filling machine 10. With this, it is possible to run from the back side of the rotary disk 14 to a position outside the filling tube 18, even within the range of the floating crimping tube 54, thereby preventing the tube material 36 from being crushed during crimping. It is possible to supply air under the slight overpressure necessary for inflation, which air is supplied to the cannula 59 by a hose 64. When the piston rod 66 of the power cylinder 61 is moved out, the cannula 59 assumes a retracted position, in which it is withdrawn from the rotary disk, so that the rotary disk can be switched unimpeded. It is possible.

The apparatus shown in FIG. 1 works as follows. First of all, the continuous tube material 36 is inserted into the roller pair 4
8, 50, 52 and floating rug pipe 54
is introduced into the rugger 30 until the left end of the rugger tube 54 is reached, and an empty filling tube is located in front of the rugger. Then, by operating the power cylinder 44, the carriage 4
6 is moved to the left so that the rugging tube 54 with its conical step 68 comes into contact with the correspondingly hollow conically shaped end of the filling tube 18 . At this time, the tightening mechanism 56 is opened. The drive of the roller pair is now started and the feed guide rollers 50 draw the tube material from the winding drum 32 past the water tank 34, in which the tube material receives the necessary moisture for pleating and filling. Given. Folding roller 52
The drawn tube material is axially compressed together while creating folds, thereby forming a tube bellows 38 on the filling tube 18. Once the filling tube 18 has been supplied with the corrugated tube material over its entire length, the roller pair drive is stopped and the clamping jaw mechanism 56 is closed. Furthermore, the carriage 46 is pulled back by operating the power cylinder 44 while entraining the rugging tube 54 over a relatively short distance, thereby causing the rugging tube 54 to
4 and the filling tube 18, the tubular bellows is stretched out and closed with a closing catch 62 by means of another schematically illustrated catch closing device 60 arranged in said region, and with which the tightening jaw is connected. The tube material can be cut by the cutting device 40 between the mechanism 56 and the tube material. At the same time, the cannula 59 is moved out of the area of the rotary disk 14 by the power cylinder 61.

If now the filling tube 16 also no longer supports tube material, i.e. the tube bellows previously located on the filling tube 16 has been completely machined, the casing brake located on the side of the filling tube 16 The catch closure device 24 with the member 22 is moved out of the area of the filling tube 16 and the rotary disk 14 is then pivoted through 180 DEG. As a result, the empty filling tube 16 is now located in front of the folding device 30 and the filling tube 18 carrying the new tube bellows 38 occupies a position in front of the stuffing outlet of the filling machine 10. The catch closing device 24 is then moved towards the filling tube 18 and the tube bellows 38 supported thereon, with the casing braking member 22 closing the tube bellows 38 closed by the catch 62. Engage the end and fill the machine 1
0 can be started to fill a new tube bellows. At the same time, the rugging device is in the above-mentioned starting position, with carriage 46 and cannula 5
With a new feed of 9, a new pleating process can be started. The pleating process is generally completed more quickly than the processing of the tube bellows 38 on the filling tube 18 with sausage stuffing.

In the case of the apparatus shown in Fig. 3, sausage filling machine 1
0 is equipped with only one filling tube 70 fixedly arranged on the filling machine, and in front of this filling tube,
A catch closing device 72, which also has a housing brake member 74, is located. Clasp closing device 72
is movable in the longitudinal direction of the filling tube 70 on a carriage 78 by means of a power cylinder 76, and the carriage 78 itself is movable by means of a power cylinder 80 on a machine board 82 in a direction perpendicular to the filling tube 70. be. On the machine board 82, a frame 84 is further mounted.
is movable in the longitudinal direction of the filling tube 70 by a power cylinder 86 . The pedestal 84 supports a rotary disk 88 and carries a drive, not shown, for shifting the rotary disk stepwise through 90 DEG. Two folding tubes 90 and 92 are fixed to the rotary disk 88 so as to face each other in the diametrical direction. It is located in front of the rugging device shown in . When the rotary disk 88 is switched 90 degrees in the direction of the arrow 96, the crimp tube 92
reaches a position in alignment with fill tube 70.

An elongated power cylinder 98 is fixed to the catch closing device 72, and a piston rod 100 of the power cylinder supports a scraping member 102, so that the piston rod 100 is extended and the carriage 78 is moved to the catch closing device 72. 72, the scraping member 1 is moved laterally from the area of the filling tube 70.
02 reaches the orbit of the filling tube 92, and the rotating disk 88 moves 90 in the direction of the arrow 96 from the position shown in FIG.
When swiveled, the tube bellows body 10 formed on the crimping tube 92 by the crimping device 94
Grasp the end of 4.

Since the rugging device 94 is basically constructed in the same manner as the rugging device 30, only the pair of rollers are shown in FIG. It is being In this case too, a cutting device 108 is provided, with which the tube material can be cut between the crimping tube 92 and the crimping device 94 after the crimping process has been completed. The tube material 109 is a winding cylinder 110
and in this case, similar to the device shown in FIG. It is possible.

The apparatus shown in FIG. 3 works as follows.

First, the crimping tube 92 is empty and the tube bellows 112 is located on the filling tube 70. The catch closure device 72 occupies the position shown in which the casing brake member 74 engages the end of the fill tube 70 and the tube material of the bellows 112 passes through the casing brake member 74. ,
The sausage stuffing supplied by the filling machine 10 is drawn out under pressure and closed with clasps to separate the sausages into individual sausages 114.

Regardless of this, the pedestal 84 is connected to the power cylinder 8
6, the tube is sent together with the empty crimping tube 92 toward the crimping device 94, and a new tube bellows body 104 is formed on the crimping tube 92.
As can be seen from the drawing, the other folding tube 90 is in this case located laterally and below the filling tube 70, so that the production of the sausages 114 is not impeded. When the tube bellows body 104 is completed, the frame 84 is returned together with the rotary disk 88 and the folding tubes 90, 92, and the tube bellows body 104
is separated from the remaining continuous tube material 109 by cutting device 108 . Now filling tube 70
When the upper tube bellows body 112 is also consumed by filling with sausage stuffing, the catch closing device 72
is caused to travel away from the filling tube 70 firstly in the axial direction and then in a direction perpendicular to said filling tube 70 by successively operating the power cylinders 76, 80. , the raking member 102 occupies a position within the orbit of the rutting tube 92 when the piston rod 100 moves out. Next, when the rotating disk 88 is switched 90 degrees,
The raking member 102 grips the end of the tubular bellows body 104 on the rugging tube 92. The cradle 84 is now moved again by the power cylinder 86 so that the rug tube 92 is brought into aligned contact with the fill tube 70. Next, by operating the power cylinder 98, the piston rod 100 moves in and scrapes the scraping member 1.
02 slides the tube bellows body 104 from above the crimping tube 92 onto the filling tube 70. Immediately thereafter,
The frame 84 is moved back again by the reverse operation of the power cylinder 86, and the rotating disk 88 is further moved.
90°, which brings an empty rug tube 90 to the front of the rug device. The catch closing device 72 is then moved back into the working position by sequentially operating the power cylinders 80, 76;
In this position, the casing braking member 74 engages with the end of the tube bellows 112 and the sausage filling machine 1
0 is started anew.

As is clear, in the illustrated device the starting end of the tubular bellows 112 cannot be closed immediately after the bellows has been manufactured. This is because the end to be closed is located on the fixed end side of the rugging tube 92. In this case, therefore, in a suitable manner, after the tube bellows 104 has been transferred onto the filling tube 70 and before the catch closing device 72 is brought into the working position together with the casing brake member 74, the tube bellows 104 is first removed. It is necessary to close the ends of the bellows body.

In the case of the device according to FIG. 3, the air required for the folding is supplied via a hose 116 to the pedestal 84 and to the rotating disk 88, and is constantly supplied to the rotating disk via a distribution device (not shown). It is supplied to a rugging tube located in front of the rugging device 94.

In the case of the device shown in Fig. 4, sausage filling machine 1
0 has only one filling tube 120, which is also fixedly mounted, and a rugging device 122, otherwise configured as in the previous device, has a floating rugger parallel to the rugger. The crimping tube 124 has a crimping tube 124 that can be provided with a constriction 126 that is engaged by a pair of rollers 128 through tube material (not shown). , the pair of rollers prevents undesired axial sliding of the rugging tube 124.

In contrast to the above-mentioned device, the bellows formed by the folding rollers 130 is not forced onto a fixed tube, but is delivered into a hollow chamber, which consists of two halves that can be pivoted relative to each other. Outer shell part 13
2,134, the half-shell parts can be pivoted oppositely by a power cylinder 136,
As a result, the two half shells form a cylindrical hollow chamber. The ends of the half shells 132, 134 remote from the folding device 122 are provided with semicircular stoppers 138, 140, which prevent the bellows from falling off the half shells. do. The half shells 132, 134 are secured by a common pivot 142 to a lever 144 which is pivotably mounted on a carriage 146. By the power cylinder 148, the half shell part 1
The cavity assembly comprising 32 , 134 is pivotable between the illustrated position in which the cavity is aligned with the rutting device 122 and a second position in which the cavity is aligned with the fill tube 120 . The carriage 146 carries the filling tube 1
20 is supported in the longitudinal direction on a guide bed 150 and is slidable towards the filling machine 10 by means of a power cylinder 152.

Folding device 122 for hollow chamber mechanisms 132, 134
Further, a twisting device 154 is disposed at the end remote from the square material 156, which includes a square material 156 that can be rotated and is slidable in the axial direction in a controlled manner. It is directed toward hollow chamber mechanisms 132, 134 to engage within the hollow chamber. The square timber 156 also has a hole 158 through which the pressurized air necessary for rutting can be supplied via a hose 160.

Furthermore, at the ends of the hollow chamber mechanisms 132, 134 remote from the crimping device 122 there is a catch closing device, indicated schematically at 162, and at the other end of the hollow chamber mechanisms there is a cutting device 164, respectively. It is located.

The device shown in FIG. 4 works as follows: When the parts of the hollow chamber mechanism occupy the positions shown, the crimping device 122 is supplied with tube material, not shown, which It is gripped by the pleating roller 30. The two half shells 132, 134 are now closed by operating the power cylinder 136 and the torsion device 154
is inserted between the half shell parts 132 and 134 together with the square timber 156. Next, the folding device 122
is started, and the folding roller 130 moves to the hollow chamber mechanism 1.
A bellows body (not shown) is formed in 32, 134, and the front end of the bellows body is gripped by a square member 156. When the hollow chamber mechanisms 132 and 134 are filled with the bellows bodies formed over the entire length, the twisting device 15
4 is started and simultaneously caused to run back, so that the squares 156 twist the tube material at the ends of the bellows and the hollow chamber mechanisms 132, 134
be extracted from. Said twisted end is closed with a catch 164' by a catch closing device 162. At the same time, the cutting device 164 is activated;
The bellows formed within the hollow chamber mechanism is separated from the rest of the continuous tube material.

The twisting device 154 is further moved back to the position where the end of the bellows body is released, and the hollow chamber mechanism 13
2,134 is swiveled forward of the filling tube 120 by operating the power cylinder 148 and sent toward the filling machine 10 by operating the power cylinder 152, thereby causing the bellows located within the hollow chamber mechanism. The body is pushed over the filling tube 120. The power cylinder 136 is then actuated to open the half-shells 132, 134, so that even if the carriage 146 continues to travel back under the action of the power cylinder 152, the bellows again closes the filling tube 12.
It cannot be extracted from 0. At the end of the carriage movement, the power cylinder 148 moves the hollow chamber mechanism back into the folding device 122 in order to repeat the process described above.
rotate in front of the

In the case of the illustrated device, a catch closing device, not shown, is also provided, which is now brought forward of the filling tube 120 and which controls the casing brake element arranged in the device. The part is then slid onto the filling tube. The filling machine 10 is thereby ready to process the tube material located on the filling tube 120 in order to produce a new continuous sausage row.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an apparatus for automatically producing continuous sausage rows using synthetic tube material; FIG. a cross-sectional view; FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing another embodiment of the sausage manufacturing device;
and FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view showing a third embodiment of the sausage manufacturing apparatus. 10... Sausage filling machine, 12... Supply hopper, 14, 88... Rotating disk, 16, 18, 7
0,120...filling tube, 20,38,104,1
12...Tube bellows body, 22,74...Casing braking member, 24,60,72,162...Latch closing device, 26,114...Sausage, 2
8,62,164'...clasp, 30,94,1
22... Folding device, 32,110... Winding trunk,
34...water tank, 36,109...tube material,
40, 108, 164... Cutting device, 42... Bed, 44, 61, 70, 76, 80, 86, 9
8,136,148,152...power cylinder,
46, 78... Carriage, 48... Pressing roller pair, 50... Feeding guide roller, 52, 106,
130...Fluffing roller, 54, 90, 92, 1
24...Folding pipe, 56...Tightening jaw mechanism,
58... Perforation part, 59... Cannula, 64,1
16,160... Hose, 66,100... Piston rod, 68... Conical stepped portion, 82... Machine board, 84... Frame, 96... Arrow, 102... Scraping member, 126... Reducing portion , 128...Roller pair, 132, 134...Half shell portion, 138,
140...stopper, 142...swivel axis, 144
...Lever, 150...Guide bed, 154...
...Twisting device, 156... Square timber, 158... Hole.

Claims (1)

Claims: 1. The sausage casings are mechanically folded in a relatively long length towards a receiving member in a first working step to form a hollow bellows, and then individually folded in a second working step. automatic production of continuous sausage rows of synthetic tube material for sausage casings, which are brought to a filling position of a sausage filling machine, where they are filled section by section with sausage stuffing and closed; In the method, in direct successive working steps, the filled, dampened tube material arriving from the storage rollers is moved during the rucking process to a stationary and separate and coaxial to the receiving member. The previously creased hollow is kept open at all times near the filling position via a longitudinally extending guide and is creased during the filling cycle and then separated between the guide and the receiving member. automatically forming a continuous row of sausages using a synthetic tube material for sausage casings, characterized in that the bellows bodies of the invention are filled and closed after the bellows bodies have been transferred to the filling position by means of a receiving member. How to manufacture. 2. A method as claimed in claim 1, in which a rotary head 14 carrying a number of filling tubes 16, 18 as receiving members is folded over a filling tube 18 which does not occupy a filling position. 3 Sleeve 1 opened on one side as receiving member
32,134. The method according to claim 1 or 2, in which folding is carried out within the inner chamber of the cell. 4. A filling and closing machine 10 with one or more filling tubes 16, 18, 70, 120, one of which occupies a filling position, a closing device 24, 72, and a transfer device 14, 18, 88, 90, 92, 132. ,13
4,136,138,140,142,144,
146, 148, and the cutting device 40, 108, 16 is assigned to the transfer device.
4, of the type adapted to transfer, cycle by cycle, segments of tube material separated from the continuous tube material to a filling tube located at a filling position;
In an apparatus for automatically producing continuous sausage rows with synthetic tube material wound on storage rollers for sausage casings, the rutting device 30, 94, 12 operates in the cycle of a filling and closing machine.
2 is provided, in which the tube material which can be drawn from the adjacently placed storage rollers 32, 110 by means of the rubbing device is directed towards the receiving member 18, 92, 132, 134 arranged in the transfer device. It is adapted to be directly crimped to form a hollow bellows body, and the crimping device further has guide bodies 54, 124 which are separate from the receiving member and extend in the longitudinal direction coaxially with respect to the receiving member. The tube material can be pulled out during folding with the guide held in place to release the tube material through the guide, and a cutting device 40 is provided between the guide and the transfer device. 108, 164 are arranged and the guide body and/or the transfer device are movable axially away from each other in order to form a cutting gap, wound on a storage roller for sausage casings. Equipment for automatically producing continuous sausage rows using synthetic tube material. 5. The transfer device 14 has at least two filling tubes 16, 18 which can be alternately used as receiving members and can be moved for this purpose selectively in front of the sausage stuffing outlet of the filling and closing machine 10. 5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the rutting device 30 is arranged in front of a filling tube that is different from the filling tube that occupies the front of the sausage stuffing outlet. 6. Device according to claim 5, in which the filling tubes 16, 18 are arranged in a switchable rotary head (rotary plate 44). 7. The folding device 30 is capable of controlled axial sliding toward the filling tubes 16, 18, and the cutting device 4
7. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that 0 is combined with a further closing device 60. 8. A cannula 59 is provided outside the filling tube 18 which occupies the front part of the rugging device 30 and can extend into the rugging area in order to supply air into the tube material 36 to be rugled by applying a slight overpressure. 8. Device according to any one of claims 5 to 7, characterized in that the cannula 59 is provided and can be withdrawn from the area of the filling tube when changing the filling tube. 9. The crimping device 30 includes a controllable tightening mechanism 56, in which the pleated tube material 36, 38 is removed from the crimping tube before the crimping device 30 slides back. 8 . The tube material 36 , 38 can be clamped onto the cutting device 54 so that the folded tube material 36 , 38 is stretched out relative to each other in the region of the cutting device 40 during the return movement. equipment. 10 The transfer device consists of a rotating head (rotary disk 88) equipped with two rugging tubes 90, 92 offset by 180° in the circumferential direction, and the rotary head moves the rugging tubes in stages. In the first of the two successive switching positions, the shirring tube 92 is aligned with the axis of the shirring device 94 and in the second switching position. 5. Apparatus according to claim 4, in which the folding tubes (90) are each aligned with a single filling tube (70) fixedly mounted on the filling machine (10). 11. A longitudinally slidable raking member 102 is provided for pushing the bellows 104 located on the switched rugging tube onto the filling tube 70 aligned with the bellows. 10th
Apparatus described in section. 12 a longitudinally extending cylindrical hollow chamber 132, 134 in which the transfer device serves as a receiving member;
, the hollow chambers being movable alternately in front of the rugging device 122 or in front of a single filling tube 120 fixedly mounted on the filling and closing machine 10, and in which the hollow chambers In the front position
5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the bellows is axially slidable for fitting over the filling tube. 13 The hollow chamber has at least two half shells 132, 13 which are movable away from each other in order to release the bellows fitted over the filling tube 120;
13. The apparatus of claim 12, comprising: 4. 14 The hollow chambers 132 and 134 form the folding device 1
At the end remote from 22 there is an air supply and closing device 1
54, 156, 158, 160, 162. Apparatus according to claim 12 or 13, comprising: 54, 156, 158, 160, 162. 15 The air supply and closing device is connected to the hollow chamber 13
Twist device 154, 15 that can run into 2,134
6. Air supply member 15 held by the twisting device
8,160 and a closing device 162. 16. A water tank 34, through which the tube material 36 runs, is provided in front of the rugging device 30, and the tube material 36 is provided with moisture necessary for rugging and filling in the tank. The device according to any one of items 4 to 15.