Patent ID: 8870634

Claim:
A casing brake and filling tube combination for an apparatus for filling and closing said tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing, like a clipping machine, wherein the casing brake and filling tube combination is provided for applying a frictional force to a tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing being arranged on said filling tube, and for limiting the movement of said tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing at least while being filled, and wherein the casing brake and filling tube combination comprises a filling tube and a casing brake assembly, wherein the filling tube includes a brake section with which the casing brake assembly comes reversibly into engagement for applying a frictional force to the tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing, wherein the casing brake assembly includes three brake bodies, wherein at least two brake bodies are at least approximately radially reversibly movable towards the brake section of the filling tube between a release position in which the at least two brake bodies are at least partially moved away from the filling tube, and a brake position, in the brake position, the three brake bodies at least approximately completely surround the brake section of the filling tube, and wherein the filling tube has an at least approximately polygonal cross-section, and the three brake bodies each enclose a corresponding polygonal shaped clearance facing to the filling tube and matching with the polygonal cross-section of the brake section of the filling tube when in the brake position.