US 7,591,717 B2
	Device and method for manufacturing sausages
Manfred Bächtle, Schemmerhofen (Germany); Siegfried Reutter, Eberhardzell (Germany); and Markus Schliesser, Wain (Germany)
Assigned to Albert Handtmann Maschinenf Abrik GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach (Germany)
Filed on Jun. 26, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/147,152.
Claims priority of application No. 07014354 (EP), filed on Jul. 20, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2009/0023373 A1, Jan. 22, 2009
Int. Cl. A22C 11/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 452—30

18 Claims

1. Device for the manufacture of sausages from a paste mass, in particular sausage meat, comprising a coextrusion head for coextruding the paste mass and a casing material for the sausage casing, the coextrusion head having a filling tube for the ejection of the paste mass and an extrusion die assigned to the filling tube, the extrusion die having an extrusion gap for ejecting the casing material, the filling tube protruding beyond the annular gap by a distance X such that the casing material is extruded through the annular gap onto the filling tube and can solidify along the filling tube, and a device for feeding fixing solution onto the ejected casing material, the feeding device being at least arranged in a partial region of the distance X.