Patent ID: 6875100

Claim:
Device for pulling a front end of a tubular casing from a filling tube of an apportioning filling machine, over which said casing is placed, away from an orifice of said filling tube and through a casing brake and closing elements of said filling machine, said device comprising a pull-through rod having a clamping hook on one end thereof for damping said front end of said casing, said pull-through rod having a semicircular shape and being swivelable about an axis which is perpendicular to the axis of said filling tube, from a first position, in which it passes through the casing brake and closing device and in which position said clamping hook on said one end of said pull-through rod is located proximate said orifice of said filling tube, to a second position in which the pull-through rod is swiveled and said clamping hook is moved away from said orifice and through said casing brake and closing device.