Patent ID: 7762874

Claim:
Shaping device for forming rounded tips on the ends of sausages and for tying off and/or parting a continuously produced sausage skein filled with paste material into single portions, the device comprising: two oppositely located displacement assemblies, which move towards one another and between which the filled sausage skein can be moved in a transport direction, the displacement assemblies being formed such that two opening sections, which widen out in the transport direction like a funnel, and opposite to the transport direction, respectively, are formed in a tying off and/or parting position between the two displacement assemblies, the displacement assemblies each comprising at least three flat displacement elements, wherein the displacement elements each exhibit a scissors-shaped side profile at their front end and which are located adjacently in the transport direction, and the displacement assemblies being aligned with respect to one another such that the respective displacement elements are arranged offset to one another such that the respective displacement elements engage in one another when the assemblies are moved towards one another, wherein the displacement elements of each displacement assembly are aligned to one another such that the displacement elements of one displacement assembly protrude further toward the other displacement assembly the closer the displacement elements are positioned to a central axis of the respective displacement assembly, the central axis being transverse to the transport direction and positioned substantially centered along the displacement assemblies in the transport direction.