Sausage making machine

Claim 1

IN A MACHINE FOR SHAPING SAUSAGE TYPE MEAT PRODUCTS, AN ENDLESS CONVEYOR HAVING A HORIZONTAL RUN WITH POCKETS THEREON FOR SUPPORTING A PLURALITY OF ROUGHLY SHAPED LINKS WITH THEIR LONG AXIS IN PARALLEL SPACED RELATION AND FOR ADVANCING THE LINKS IN A DIRECTION LATERALLY OF THEIR LONG AXIS, A MOLDING HEAD HAVING A PLURALITY OF HORIZONTAL OPEN ENDED MOLDING CAVITIES ARRANGED WITH THEIR LONG AXES IN SPACED, PARALLEL RELATION, MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID MOLDING HEAD AT ONE SIDE OF SAID CONVEYOR RUN SO THAT LINKS POSITIONED IN THE CONVEYOR POCKETS ARE AXIALLY ALIGNED BY MOVEMENT OF THE CONVEYOR WITH THE CAVITIES IN THE MOLDING HEAD, PUSHER MEMBERS MOUNTED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID CONVEYOR RUN IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE CAVITIES IN THE MOLDING HEAD AND MOVABLE ACROSS THE CONVEYOR TO PUSH THE LINKS INTO THE MOLDING CAVITIES, END SHAPING AND EJECTOR MEMBERS MOUNTED ON TH OPPOSITE SIDE OF MOLDING HEAD AND HAVING THE END SHAPING PORTIONS MOVABLE AXIALLY IN THE CAVITIES, MEANS TO MOVE THE PUSHER MEMBERS INTO THE CAVITIES TO COMPRESS THE LINKS BETWEEN THE PUSHER MEMBERS AND THE END SHAPING AND EJECTOR MEMBERS, AND MEANS TO MOVE THE END SHAPING AND EJECTOR MEMBERS THROUGH THE CAVITIES TO RETURN THE SHAPED LINKS TO THE CONVEYOR POCKETS.