Abstract: A stock assembly is provided for storing a mass of individual closed loops used in suspending sausages and for successively supplying the loops to an automatic sausage-sealing machine. Each loop compries a piece of yarn arranged in an elongated loop configuration with the ends thereof knotted together at one end of the loop. The stock assembly includes a long strip member of resilient material adapted to be wound onto a reel. The loops are detachably affixed to the strip member lengthwise thereof one after the other in closely spaced relationship so that each loop member overlaps the adjacent loop member at one end thereof and is overlapped by the adjacent loop member of the other end thereof.