Patent ID: 8911284

Claim:
A transportation device for transporting sausage-shaped products, like sausages, with suspension elements from a clipping machine to a handling device for said sausage-shaped products including a bar-shaped storing element, the transportation device comprising: a conveying unit for conveying a sausage-shaped product just produced out of the clipping machine in a transportation direction, a catching unit for catching the suspension element attached to one end of the sausage-shaped product, and a guide unit for guiding the suspension element caught by the catching unit to said handling device, and comprising a longitudinally extending guide element and supporting means for supporting the guide element, wherein the supporting means provide a passage way for the suspension element to be guided along the guide element, where the supporting means includes gear wheels arranged rotatably about an at least substantially horizontally aligned axis and engaging the guide element; and where ratchets are provided for engaging the gear wheels and adapted to position a gap between two subsequent teeth of said gear wheels in the passage way of said suspension element.