Apparatus and method for filling a canning container with a shaped foodstuff product, such as tuna fish.

摘要

An apparatus for filling two cylindrical canning containers (11) with cylindrically compacted and shaped tuna chunks. The apparatus has a flared compression channel (6) for relieving excessive compression in the compacted tuna chunks, a movable shaping wall (32) for controlling the density of the tuna chunks by changing the volume of the channel, and a movable blade (10) between two semi-cylindrical cavities in the shaping wall for splitting the relieved compacted tuna chunks into two streams which then flow easily into the cavities for forming semi-cylindrical ends prior to cutting the formed ends into cylindrical cakes for injection into the canning containers. <IMAGE>