PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR THE MECHANIZED SUSPENSION OF SAUSAGES

摘要

A process for the mechanized suspended on smoking or cooking rods of individual sausages produced in an automatic filling installation with teardrop-shaped suspension loops fastened to their ends is characterized in that following the picking up by a first pair of conveyor elements from the discharge area of the filling pipe the teardrop-shaped suspension loops are raised up and are simultaneously flared, whereupon the flared teardrop-shaped suspension loops are picked up by a second pair of conveyor elements, are moved away over the smoking or cooking rod which is chucked at one end and finally are placed on the point provided for that purpose on the smoking or cooking rod. Thus a sequential alignment of sausages of desired length is facilitated with standard size teardrop-shaped suspension loops on conventional smoking or cooking rods, and the sausages cut from the string of sausages are immediately lifted out of the area in front of the filling pipe opening to a higher level, so that the area in front of the filling pipe opening remains free and the pinching off or swaging and sealing tools as well as the casing brake ring can be removed unhindered for realignment and reuse of the filling pipe with tubular casing material.