Title: Process for the production of edible wreath-shaped food casings

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1. In a process for the production of a wreath-shaped food casing by blow extrusion from an extrusion nozzle, wherein the extruded inflated casing is led in the form of a spiral, the improvement of producing an edible wreath-shaped food casing wherein said casing in led in the form of a spiral by extruding it tangentially onto the peripheral surface of the first of a succession of truncated conical carrier elements, mounted one after another on a common axis, said carrier elements being simultaneously rotated with a peripheral speed substantially equal to the discharge speed of the casing from the extrusion nozzle, the casing being conveyed from one carrier element of the succession to the next with the aid of guide means arranged obliquely to the axis of rotation of said elements.

2. A process according to claim 1, wherein the said conveyor guide between each pair of adjacent carrier elements comprises roller means.

3. A process according to claim 1, wherein the transport from carrier element to carrier element is assisted by guides disposed at the side of the spiral.

4. A process according to claim 3, wherein the lateral guides comprise roller means.

Other info:

Inventors: Winkler, Bruno (Oberflockenbach, DT)

Application Number: 647977
Filing Date: 1976-01-09
Publication_date: 1978-03-28
Assignee: Naturin-Werk Becker & Co. (Badenia-Strasse, DT)
Primary Class(es): 426/390 426/138, 426/140, 426/277, 426/513, 426/514
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

2246236	Jun, 1941	Becker	426/140.
3535125	Oct, 1970	Fagan	426/277.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Golian, Joseph M.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Brumbaugh, Graves, Donohue & Raymond