Abstract: A method and a vacuum filler for filling a pasty filling material, in particular sausage meat, with the sausage meat being filled into a vane-type conveying mechanism by means of rotatably supported vane cells and a negative pressure being produced in a region of the vane-type conveying mechanism for supporting the intake of sausage meat into the vane-type conveying mechanism. The production of negative pressure is efficient in that it is substantially produced while the vane cells are rotating, which is made possible by installing a closure element for the at least partial opening and closing of a vacuum opening in the housing of the conveying mechanism.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for processing meat, particularly sausage meat, comprising a supply hopper disposed on top of the machine, a lift arm pivotably mounted on a horizontal axle fixedly connected to the machine, a horizontal tipping shaft rotatably mounted on said lift arm, and a carrier frame for a mobile sausage meat container secured to said tipping shaft.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for drawing off deformable masses containing air, such as sausage masses. The mass is transferred in a stream from a supply space into a filling cylinder where a vacuum is generated relative to the space to remove air from the mass, and the transferred mass is then ejected from the filling cylinder by means of a piston. To transfer the mass quickly and remove air from it completely, the mass stream is guided, during its transfer into the filling cylinder in such a way that, as it enters the filling cylinder, it first moves towards the cylinder wall at an angle to the direction of the piston. Moreover, during filling the level of mass in the filling cylinder is maintained at an essentially constant filling height so that a constant volume of free space remains above the mass in the filling cylinder.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatic continuous or stepwise delivery of sausage loops hanging adjacent to one another from a receiver under which a smoking rod is arranged that is slidable in the feed direction of the receiver relative thereto.