US 12,256,746 B2
Sausage sticking system
Tatsuo Nakamura, Yokohama (JP); Takayuki Fujimaki, Yokohama (JP); Hideaki Oikawa, Yokohama (JP); Hirokatsu Harasawa, Yokohama (JP); and Takashi Arai, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to HITEC CO., LTD., Yokohama (JP)
Filed by HITEC CO., LTD., Yokohama (JP)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/120,813.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-129179 (JP), filed on Aug. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0049733 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. A22C 15/00 (2006.01); B65G 47/36 (2006.01)
CPC A22C 15/002 (2013.01) [A22C 15/001 (2013.01); B65G 47/36 (2013.01); B65G 2811/095 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sausage sticking system for hanging, on a stick, a chain of sausages whose casing having a predetermined length is filled with ingredients, the sausage sticking system comprising:
a hook conveying unit including a plurality of pivoting hooks pivotable and arranged at predetermined intervals, and conveying the plurality of pivoting hooks at a predetermined speed, the hook conveying unit being configured such that the chain of sausages is hooked on each of the plurality of pivoting hooks to form a loop respectively and that the loop of the chain of sausages hooked on each of the plurality of pivoting hooks is dropped onto the stick passing through the loop by pivoting each of the plurality of pivoting hooks;
a stick holding unit holding both ends of the stick on which the chain of sausages hooked on the plurality of pivoting hooks of the hook conveying unit is to be hung, and including a fixed arm and a pair of actuating arms, the fixed arm holding a vicinity of one end of the stick on a side further from a conveying direction of the plurality of pivoting hooks, and the pair of actuating arms holding a vicinity of another end of the stick on a side closer to the conveying direction of the plurality of pivoting hooks, wherein the pair of actuating arms alternately performs a holding operation in which a first actuating arm of the pair of actuating arms holds the stick when a second actuating arm of the pair of actuating arms avoids the loop of the chain of sausages and an avoiding operation in which the first actuating arm of the pair of actuating arms avoids the loop of the chain of sausages when the second actuating arm of the pair of actuating arms holds the stick in order to sequentially pass the stick through each the loop of the chain of sausages hooked on the plurality of pivoting hooks; and
a pivoting imparting unit configured to sequentially pivot the plurality of pivoting hooks at a predetermined pivoting imparting position while moving in a direction opposite to the conveying direction of the plurality of pivoting hooks of the hook conveying unit such that each the loop of the chain of sausages hooked on the plurality of pivoting hooks of the hook conveying unit is dropped at a predetermined position and a predetermined interval onto the stick.