Patent ID: 8308533

Claim:
A system for allowing a quality check of sausage shaped products comprising: a filling tube for feeding filling material in a feeding direction into a tubular packing casing provided on the filling tube and closed at the front end by a closure means, a clipping machine having a displacer unit with at least two pairs of displacer elements for gathering the filled tubular packing casing and for providing a plait-like portion which is at least approximately free from filling material, and at which two closure means have to be applied, a first closure means for closing an actually filled tubular packing casing for forming a sausage-shaped product to be produced presently, a second closure means for closing the front end of the tubular packing casing provided on the filling tube and forming the following sausage-shaped product to be produced next, and a feeding unit for feeding flexible suspension elements for attachment to the sausage-shaped product by means of the first or second closure means, wherein the feeding unit includes a positioning device for positioning the flexible suspension element to be attached to the sausage-shaped product, and further comprising a transportation unit for transporting the sausage-shaped product out of the clipping machine to a storing device, wherein the system comprises a discharge device for by-passing the transportation unit by at least one of the sausage-shaped products and for discharging the by-passed sausage-shaped product out of the clipping machine.