Patent ID: 8641485

Claim:
A manually operable clipping-machine for producing sausage-shaped products with a plait-like portion on a tubular packaging casing accommodating a filling material, wherein the plait-like portion is at least approximately free of filling material and comprises a longitudinal extending plait-axis, comprising: a first displacer unit with a first pair of upper and lower displacer elements wherein at least the upper displacer element is reversibly movable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal extending plait-axis between an opened and a closed position, with the opened position being the maximum displacement between the upper and lower displacer elements and the closed position being the minimum position between the upper and lower displacer elements, a second displacer unit with a second pair of upper and lower displacer elements wherein at least the upper displacer element is reversibly movable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal extending plait-axis between an opened and a closed position, with the opened position being the maximum displacement between the upper and lower displacer elements and the closed position being the minimum position between the upper and lower displacer elements, and wherein the second displacer unit is being further reversibly movable parallel to the longitudinal extending plait-axis between a narrow position in which the second displacer unit is adjacent to the first displacer unit, and a spread position in which the second displacer unit is moved away from the first displacer unit, closing means for fitting at least one clip onto the plait-like portion, and an adjustment assembly for adjusting the position of at least the upper displacer elements of the first and second displacer units in the opened position.