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Abstract

A method of removing the skin casing from a sausage by slitting the sausage (2) in its one end region comprises the steps that a flap of the skin casing is gripped by a gripper (15) in the immediate proximity of the slit. The gripped flap is displaced in relation to the sausage (2) in a direction transversely of the longitudinal direction of the sausage, preferably approximately tangential. The gripper and the sausage undergo a relative displacement in the longitudinal direction of the sausage. The sausage will, at least during a part of the removal operation of the skin casing, be caused to rotate approximately about its longitudinal axis. An apparatus for removing the skin casing from a sausage comprises a support arrangement (1) for the sausage, a rotation unit (6), which, by engagement with the sausage (2), is disposed to rotate the sausage approximately about its longitudinal axis on the support arrangement, a gripping unit (3) which has a knife for realizing a slit in the end region of the sausage, and at least one first gripper for gripping a flap of the skin casing in the immediate proximity of the slit. The apparatus also includes guides (4, 5) along which the rotation unit (6) and the gripping unit (3) for removing the skin casing of the sausage are movable in opposite directions approximately parallel with the longitudinal direction of the sausage.

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