Method and apparatus for transporting sausage to a treatment room
A method is for transporting one or more sausages provided with a suspension member into a treatment room. The sausages are placed in a holder in a desired position. A number of holders with the sausages therein are disposed adjacently of each other in the desired position, so that a stick or tube can be inserted through the holders in order to allow the sausages to be transported to the treatment room and to remain there adjacently of each other.
1. A method comprising:
placing sausages in respective holders to provide loaded holders;
disposing a number of the loaded holders adjacently of each other; and
inserting at least one of a stick and tube through the number of the loaded holders.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein placing the sausages comprises moving the sausages into the holders via a slide chute.
3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , further comprising holding the sausages out of centers of the loaded holders using decentering means.
4. The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the sausage decentering means comprise suction means substantially at the position of the top part of each of the holders.
5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the suction means include an air pump.
6. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each of the loaded holders is provided with suction channels which draw the sausage against side walls of the loaded holder.
7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the suction channels include an air pump.
8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising carrying the loaded holders to a first conveyor belt where the loaded holders are disposed adjacently of each other up to the number.
9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising carrying the number of loaded holders to a second conveyor belt, whereafter the stick or tube is placed through the loaded holders.
10. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the holders is provided with a slot for inserting at least one of the stick and tube therethrough.