Global Patent Index - EP 0230795 A3

EP 0230795 A3 19881221 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PACKING SAUSAGE LINKS

Title (en)

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PACKING SAUSAGE LINKS

Publication

EP 0230795 A3 19881221 (EN)

Application

EP 86401053 A 19860516

Priority

CA 500641 A 19860129

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0230795A2] Method and apparatus for automatically packing sausage links in containers. A high speed feed conveyor (11) feeds a plurality of spaced apart sausage links (13), in a lengthwise orientation, to a further conveyor having a plurality of transverse compartments. A sausage link is received in each compartment and they are conveyed transversewise, in side-by-side relationship, to a group forming station. Sensing devices are provided to determine when a predetermined quantity of sausage links are at the forming station. A movable platform then displaces the sausage links from the group forming station to an unloading station where they are reoriented in side-by-side contact relationship and unloaded into a container by a pusher mechanism. While the group of sausage links is being unloaded, another group is being formed at the forming station.

IPC 1-7

B65B 19/34; B65B 35/44

IPC 8 full level

B65B 19/34 (2006.01); B65B 35/30 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

B65B 19/34 (2013.01); B65B 35/30 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0230795 A2 19870805; EP 0230795 A3 19881221

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 86401053 A 19860516