Abstract: An apparatus for closing pasty-substance-filled tubular casings to form products, in particular for closing sausage-meat-filled casings is disclosed. The apparatus includes a filling tube with an outlet opening, having a brake and having clipper blades, which can be moved toward one another in a direction transverse to a filling direction, and which includes a measuring device, which establishes the caliber of the products in a contactless.

Abstract: An apparatus for closing pasty-substance-filled tubular casings to form products, in particular for closing sausage-meat-filled casings is disclosed. The apparatus includes a filling tube with an outlet opening, having a brake and having clipper blades, which can be moved toward one another in a direction transverse to a filling direction, and which includes a measuring device, which establishes the caliber of the products in a contactless.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a device and a method for the automated monitoring of packaging machines for the production of sausages, the packaging machines having a filling machine (F), a filling pipe (1), a skin brake (2) and a sealing machine (V). The device according to the invention is characterized in that it has a camera (6, 6?, 6?) which supplies an electric image signal, an evaluation unit (7) for the image signal and a switching-off unit (8), which is activated by the evaluation unit, for the filling machine (F). The invention permits automated monitoring of malfunctions of packaging machines for the production of sausages.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a packaging machine for sausage production, with a filling pipe (1) and a skin brake (2) with at least one active component, the skin brake (2) being releasable from its working position and having a metallic component (5). The packaging machine is distinguished in that an inductive sensor (6a) with a measuring field is provided which is oriented in such a manner that it detects the metallic component (5) of the skin brake (2) in its working position. This makes it possible in a simple manner to automatically ascertain whether the skin brake (2) is in its working position.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a sausage packaging apparatus for filling pasty stuffing material into tubular casing material, with a filling pipe (1) which opens at a filling zone (5) and, on its outside, has a receptacle for gathered tubular casing material (80), SO that, in order to fill a sausage (8), the casing material (80), which is sealed on one side, is pulled off from the filling pipe (1) under the pressure of the stuffing material (85) and, when a certain size is reached, is sealed by a sealing device (2), and with a removal device (4), which comprises a moving belt (40), for the sausage (8) filled in this manner.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a packaging machine for sausage production, with a filling pipe (1) and a skin brake (2) with at least one active component, the skin brake (2) being releasable from its working position and having a metallic component (5). The packaging machine is distinguished in that an inductive sensor (6a) with a measuring field is provided which is oriented in such a manner that it detects the metallic component (5) of the skin brake (2) in its working position. This makes it possible in a simple manner to automatically ascertain whether the skin brake (2) is in its working position.