Abstract: A twisting apparatus comprising a loading device intended to load a food product into a casing, and a braking device, is described. The loading device comprises two tubular filling bodies, or filling tubes, intended to support the casing and a twisting device intended to rotate each filling tube about its axis, and a movable frame or carriage able to support the loading device. The twisting apparatus includes a rotation unit intended to cause rotation of the loading device and angularly displace the two tubular filling bodies with respect to the braking device. Also provided is a displacement drive member connected to said movable frame or carriage so as to move with an approaching and separating displacement, or to-and-fro movement, the two tubular filling bodies away from and towards the braking device. The rotation unit includes a rotation drive member fixed to said movable frame or carriage and is able to be moved by said displacement drive member together with the loading device.

Abstract: A twisting apparatus is disclosed. The twisting apparatus has a path for loading a food product extending from a loading device to a braking device. The loading device has a tubular filling body or filling cone adapted to assume at least one position in which the filling cone is in a spaced relationship or is detached from the braking device.

Abstract: A twisting apparatus is described. The twisting apparatus has a loading device adapted to load a food product inside a casing and a braking device. A filling assembly is adapted to support the casing. An inlet conduit is provided for feeding the food product into the filling assembly. The inlet conduit is structurally separate from the passage duct of the filling assembly and configured to assume at least one first operative position in which the filling assembly is connected to the braking device and the inlet conduit is in fluid communication with said passage duct and a second operative position in which the filling assembly is displaced in a spaced relationship or detached from the braking device.