Sausage stuffing machine

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR STUFFING COMMINUTED MATERIAL INTO TUBULAR CASINGS TO FORM SAUSAGES OR THE LIKE, COMPRISING, A RECEPTACLE ARRANGED TO ACCOMMODATE A SUPPLY OF COMMINUTED MATERIAL; A STUFFING CHAMBER COMMUNICATING WITH SAID RECEPTACLE AND HAVING AN OPEN END; STUFFING MEANS MOVABLE IN SAID STUFFING CHAMBER TO STUFF COMMINUTED MATERIAL THROUGH SAID OPEN END OF SAID STUFFING CHAMBER, CLOSING MEANS ARRANGED SPACED OUTSIDE OF AND OPPOSITE TO SAID OPEN END OF SAID STUFFING CHAMBER; EXPELLING MEANS ARRANGED TRANSVERSELY SPACED FROM SAID STUFFING CHAMBER; AT LEAST TWO TUBULAR SPOUTS HAVING OPPOSITE OPEN ENDS; INTERMITTENTLY OPEABLE CARRIER MEANS CARRYING SAID TWO TUBULAR SPOUTS MOVABLE BETWEEN A FIRST POSITION IN WHICH ONE OF SAID SPOUTS IS LOCATED WITH AN OPEN END THEREOF IN REGISTRY WITH SAID OPEN END AND SAID STUFFING CHAMBER AND WITH THE OTHER OPEN END THEREOF CLOSED BY SAID CLOSING MEANS AND THE OTHER OF SAID SPOUTS IS LOCATED WITH ONE OPEN END THEREOF IN REGISTRY WITH SAID EXPELLING MEANS AND THE OTHER OPEN END THEREOF UNCOVERED BY SAID CLOSING MEANS, AND A SECOND POSITION, IN WHICH THE LOCATION OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND TUBULAR SPOUTS IS REVERSED; AND MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID STUFFING MEANS AND SAID EXPELLING MEANS WHEN SAID SPOUTS ARE IN SAID FIRST AND SECOND POSITIONS THEREOF, WHEREBY DURING EACH OF SAID OPERATIONS THAT SPOUT WHICH IS IN REGISTER WITH SAID STUFFING CHAMBER IS FILLED WITH COMMINUTED MATERIAL BY SAID STUFFING MEANS WHILE SAID COMMINUTED MATERIAL IS RETAINED THEREIN BY SAID CLOSING MEANS AND FROM THE OTHER SPOUT WHICH IS IN REGISTER WITH SAID EXPELLING MEANS, COMMINUTED MATERIAL IS EXPELLED BY SAID EXPELLING MEANS THROUGH THE OPEN UNCOVERED END THEREOF SO AS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO A SAUSAGE CASING.