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A machine for consecutively metering individual quantity portions of a stuffing substance such as sausage meat. The machine includes a nozzle through which the substance is stuffed into a casing, and feeding apparatus for feeding the substance under presssure into the nozzle. The machne also includes cut off apparatus operable to divide the substance into individual quantity portions. In preferred form, recirculation apparatus is provided to permit continuous recirculation of the stuffing therethrough when no substance is being fed into the nozzle, recirculation of the stuffing being prevented when it is being fed into the nozzle. Also, and in preferred form, a metering device, that preferably includes a magnetic/inductive flow meter capable of making velocity or flow measurements, and capable of determining stuffing quantity form those measurements, is connected with the cut off apparatus for metering the stuffing to be provided in each individual quantity portion. This metering device is located upstream of the cut off apparatus.
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