manual forcing of this edible material through the tube and out of the tube outlet application_number US 92483804 A description referring now to fig1 and 2 there is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention suitable for stuffing meat products into tubular casing including a tube 10 having a tube inlet 20 and tube outlet 30 as would be appreciated by those skilled in the art the invention may be used to stuff other edible materials having a similar physical consistency tube 10 in this preferred embodiment is constructed from 3 mm stainless steel but other material equally suitable for handling food such as various plastics may be employed in addition whilst tube 10 in this preferred embodiment has a circular cross section other non regular cross sections that allow for the transferring of material through the tube are considered to be within the scope of the invention tube 10 has a diameter of 150 mm and a length of 850 mm tube inlet 20 includes a section 21 having a length of 200 mm and depth of 30 mm cut away from a top area of the cylinder as the length of the tube is longer than that of the average arm cut away section 21 allows the operator of the stuffing tube to gain greater penetration with a hand or any other manually operated plunger device attached to the periphery of section 21 is a lip 60 of 20 mm width.