Abstract: A device for closing sausage casings or the like contains plate-shaped constricting components for the purpose of forming a braid and a power-driven device for fastening a closure clip around the braid. It is distinguished according to the invention through the fact that the power source for closing the closure clip is fastened to one of the constricting components and can swivel with it, whereby the punch of the device is guided in this constricting component across its entire advance path.

Abstract: A device for partitioning portion packages from a filled casing string by constricting it and applying at least one closing clip onto the casing string, which consists of two sets of displacement elements and a clipping apparatus consisting of two interacting elements that can move between the displacement element sets in mutually opposite directions, wherein he displacement elements and the elements of the closing apparatus are connected via rotating joints to the cranks driven in the same direction and are guided via a joint guiding element, which is seated in a swiveling manner about the (virtual) casing axis on a carrier holding also the cranks.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing sausages, including a mechanism for automatically drawing new sausage casings onto a filling tube.

Abstract: Wire erosion machine in portal construction comprising a machine bed with two lateral columns and a portal bridge, a workpiece clamping table frame, an upper cantilever arm above the latter comprising a wire deflecting guide, a lower cantilever arm below the latter comprising a wire deflecting guide, guide carriage and slide provided with controllable forward feed drives for the relative displacement of the cantilever arms in the x, y and z axes relative to the workpiece clamping table frame, as well as a portal column comprising one or more pieces and forming a first structural component unit, a portable bridge comprising one or more pieces which forms a second autonomous structural unit, is exchangeable, can be placed on the portal column and is rigidly connectable with the latter, exchangeable guide carriages above and below the portal bridge in each instance which are displaceable in the x axis in guides and form a third and a fourth autonomous structural component group, guide slides which are arranged a