Abstract: A motor driven machine for compactly coiling a chain of sausages prior to delivering the sausages to a smoking room. The machine comprises an arcuate first arm and a second, channel-like arcuate arm; an elongated drive shaft is disposed within the second arm. A pneumatic piston joins the arms together, and conduits deliver pneumatic pressure to the piston from the bore of the drive shaft. One end of a rope of sausages is clamped to one arm, and a smoke stick is temporarily retained in the other arm. The piston is then pressurized to force the arms apart, and the drive shaft and the arms are rotated rapidly, as a unit, to form a coil of sausage about the expanded arms. When the coil reaches the desired length, the piston is then retracted so that the arms are drawn toward each other, and the smoke stick is removed with the sausages depending therefrom for processing.