Patent ID: 7997045

Claim:
An apparatus for filling packaging casings with a stuffing and subsequently closing the packaging casings section-by-section comprising a filling machine which, on a rotary plate, has at least one pivotable filling tube onto which can be drawn a packaging casing which has been shirred to form a strand, a closing device for closing the filled packaging casing section-by-section, and a magazine in which shined packaging casings are stored as individual strands, wherein a control device controls the removal of an individual strand from the magazine as and when required, and transporting devices, deflecting rollers and a feed path are provided for transporting the strand from the magazine to the filling-machine filling tube located in a receiving position, wherein the magazine comprises a hopper-like configuration with conically tapering side walls, and the side walls open out into an elongate gap-like outlet opening, the feed path runs between the outlet opening of the magazine and the free end of that filling tube which is located in its receiving position, in which a strand is drawn onto the filling tube, the feed path is an open tube section or a channel and the feed path is curved in arcuate fashion.