Sausage making machines such as that shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,115,668 include a meat emulsion pump connected to an elongated stuffing tube which extrudes into a shirred casing thereon a strand of sausage into the rotatable chuck of a twister housing. The strand then moves through a conventional linker and the linked strand discharged therefrom typically moves into a rotatable looper horn and deposits on the hooks of a moveable conveyor.
It would be advantageous to use such machines in spaced parallel relationship, to be attended by a single operator. However, conventional sausage making machines do not make this possible because the chuck and the looper horn can only be rotated in a single direction.
It is therefore the principal object of this invention to provide a sausage making machine which has power means associated with both the twister housing and the looper horn to permit the chuck in the twister housing and/or the looper horn to be rotated in both clockwise or counterclockwise directions.