Abstract: The present invention relates to a guide device for guiding a suspension element, like a loop, being attached to one end of a sausage-shaped product, like a sausage, from a first apparatus, like an apparatus for producing sausage-shaped products, in a guide direction to a second apparatus, like a handling device for said sausage-shaped products. The guide device comprises a guide unit for guiding the suspension element and support means for radially and axially supporting the guide unit. According to the present invention, the support means comprise a first support unit and a second support unit for a functional separation of the axial support and the radial support of the guide unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a discharge device for discharging sausage-shaped products comprising suspension elements from the discharge end of a clipping machine to a handling device for said sausage-shaped products. The discharge device comprises a first guide means for said suspension elements, having a first end and a second end as well as an upper guide surface and two side surfaces and extending from the discharge end of said clipping machine towards the handling device, and second guide means arranged at said side surfaces and extending at least approximately between the first and second end of said first guide means. The discharge device further comprises transportation units for transporting said suspension elements along said first guide means, including transportation elements with engagement elements which engage the second guide means and which are guided through said second guide means in a transportation direction by said transportation elements.

Abstract: A system for producing sausage-shaped products that includes a filling machine for filling a tubular casing with viscous or granular stuff, a clipping machine for dividing the filled tubular casing into sausage-shaped products and closing the sausage-shaped products by closing means; and a transportation device for discharging the sausage-shaped products out of the clipping machine and transporting the sausage-shaped products along a transport path for storing them on rod-like elements, being positioned in an automatic hanging line for accommodating the rod-like elements; wherein the transport path extends from the clipping machine to the distal end of said smoking rod.

Abstract: The location of a subscriber device in a wireless cellular communications system is established by transmitting digital data signals to a cellular digital data receiver of the subscriber device from at least three different cellular cell site transmitters at known locations. Each data signal has a time-synchronized synchronization signal, preferably synchronized through the time signals of the global positioning system. The time of arrival of each of the time-synchronized synchronization signals is determined with respect to an internal clock of the receiver. The location of the subscriber device is established from the locations of the cell sites and the times of arrival of the synchronization signals relative to the internal clock.