Patent ID: 8579682

Claim:
Clipping machine for partitioning and closing a tubular packaging casing accommodating a filing material, in particular sausage meat, the machine comprising: at least a first and second displacer element pair which in relation to an axis of the tubular packaging casing are arranged axially one after the other, and, which comprise each an upper displacer element and a lower displacer element wherein each pair of the displacer elements are linearly reversibly movable in a first and second plane from an open position, in which the displacer elements are in a maximum displacement to each other, to a closed position, in which the displacer elements are in a nearly minimum displacement to each other, a first linear guidance comprising at least a first and second guiding rod for guiding the two pairs of the displacer elements in the first and second plane during their reversible linear movement from the open position to the closed position, and a first drive mechanism for reversibly moving both first and second pairs of the displacer elements from the open position to the closed position, where the first and second guiding rods are positioned in a plane parallel to the first and second plane of the first and second pairs of the displacer elements, and where the second pair of the displacer elements is linearly reversibly movable between the closed position and the spread position in a third plane perpendicular to the first and second plane.