Patent ID: 8696415
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: A22C,B65G

Abstract:
1. A clip machine for the manufacturing of sausage-shaped products, which receive a flowable filling material in a tubular wrapper material, said clip machine comprising: at least two sealing tools, movable relative to one another between an opening position and a closing position for the placing and closing of clips on a sausage-shaped product; at least one clip storage device from which clips can be fed to at least one of the sealing tools; a storage device for storing a supply of wrapper material; a separation device for separating an individual sausage product from the supply of wrapper material; a filling pipe for said feeding of filling material; a delivery device for delivering sausage-shaped products to which a suspension element is attached from said clip machine along a delivery path for said sausage-shaped products; and a feeding device for flexible suspension elements from which suspension elements to be attached to a sausage-shaped product can be fed, the delivery path for said sausage-shaped products including a first transport path for said sausage-shaped products and, parallel to said first transport path for said sausage-shaped products, a transport path, separate from said first transport path for said sausage-shaped products, for said suspension elements directly connected to a sausage-shaped product, where said first transport path for said sausage-shaped products and said transport path for said suspension element directly connected to a sausage-shaped product ends in a transfer position, in which a sausage-shaped product can be kept ready in a defined manner for the transfer for further processing.