Abstract: A device for closing packages made of flexible material, wherien a portion of the flexible material is gathered into a neck, the neck is inserted into and overlaps a U-shaped clip, the overlapping portions of the neck are formed in a direction perpendicular to the base of the clip to hold the neck against the base, and the legs of the clip are closed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a sealing clip (10) for bags, foil tubes or the like, said sealing clip (10) comprising a wire section, a pre-curved clip base (12) and two clip legs (14) adjoining the latter on both sides. The two clip legs taper constantly from their clip base ends to their free ends. The invention also concerns a wire section for sealing clips of this type which tapers constantly towards both ends. The invention finally concerns a matrix (30) for sealing the sealing clip and having two slide channels (36, 38) which each narrow conically from an inlet point.

Abstract: Method and closing device for producing sausage-like products with a flexible tubular or pouch-like wrapper, wherein the various stages of the closing process include constriction of the wrapper, elongation of the braid, setting and closure of the clamp fastener, which can be controlled in a partially autonomous manner by means of a programmable control unit.

Abstract: A magazinable strip of sealing clips (10) for bags and tubes, whose individual clips each consist of a clip bottom (14) and two legs (16, 18) and are connected with each other at the ends of the legs, is formed such that the sealing clips (10) are widest adjacent the clip bottom (14), and the width of the adjoining legs (16, 18) of two adjacent sealing clips (10) unilaterally decreases to less than half the maximum width alternatingly towards the one and the other longitudinal side.The longitudinal sides (32", 34") of the two legs (16", 18") resting against each other upon closure of the sealing clip can have locking teeth which restrict a springing back of the legs of the sealing clip when the same has been closed.

Abstract: A device for crimping a flexible tubular container filled with a dividable filling to form portion packs thereof, which comprises an outer ring, a concentric inner ring, at least four crimping elements in the form of strips, each of which elements is pivotally mounted at one end thereof to said inner ring and engaged at the other end in recesses radially extended in said outer ring, said crimping elements cooperating to form an aperture of variable size, which can be closed upon rotation of said outer ring to crimp a flexible tubular container inserted therein.

Abstract: The invention relates to a chain of interconnected closure clips, designed for the necks of bags or film tubes, having a uniform cross-sectional profile and two free ends lockable together to close the closure clip, which chain is characterized in that the closure clips comprise projections located in mutual alignment between the ends on the outer contour and are connected only in the region of these projections, such that the projections form a through-web.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process of producing sausages, wherein a tubular sausage casing closed at one end and provided with a figurative print is filled with sausage meat by pressing the sausage meat through the open end of the sausage casing into the same, where the sausage casing is carried along against the resistance of a casing brake and, corresponding to markers on the sausage casing, filled partial lengths of the sausage casing are divided off by compressing and closing them and are subsequently cut off from the remaining sausage casing, which process is characterized in that each filled partial length (sausage) is weighed after having been cut off, and the weight difference between a predetermined desired weight and the actual weight of the partial length is determined, and that the braking force of the casing brake is increased when the actual weight of the filled partial length is smaller than its desired weight, but is decreased when the actual weight is larger than the desired weight, until th