Patent ID: 8366522

Claim:
A system for producing sausage-shaped products, comprising: a filling machine for filling a tubular casing with viscous or granular stuff, in particular sausage meat; a clipping machine for dividing the filled tubular casing into sausage-shaped products and closing the sausage-shaped products by closing means; a transportation device for discharging the sausage-shaped products out of the clipping machine and transporting the sausage-shaped products along a transport path for storing them on rod-like elements, in particular smoking rods, being positioned in an automatic hanging line for accommodating the rod-like elements, wherein the transport path extends from the clipping machine to the distal end of said smoking rod, and a weighing device for sensing the weight of at least one of the sausage-shaped products, wherein the weighing device is positioned along the transport path of sausage-shaped products for receiving a sausage-shaped product to be weighed and wherein the weighing device is adapted to transfer the weighed sausage-shaped product to the rod-like element being positioned in the automatic hanging line.