Device for the input and carrying away of smoking or cooking rods for automatic suspension of a plurality of sausages

A device for the inputting and carrying away of smoking rods or cooking rods to and from a loading station at which one rod at a time is tightly chucked at one end and supported whereby sausages on loops are automatically loaded on the rod, comprising:

• a magazine for storage and supply of a number of unloaded smoking rods or cookings rods,
• a controllable separating device which causes a movement of each rod separately out of the magazine to the loading station,
• a clamping device by which the rod in the loading station is tightly chucked at one end in a loading position, said clamping device also subsequently releasing the one end,
• a transport device by which the rod, suspended in the loading position and loaded with sausages, is engaged after release by said clamping device at two points on the rod and is fed to a collection station, and
• wherein said magazine includes two conveyor belts circulating continuously and arranged at some transverse spacing from one another and on which the rods are carried to said separating device.

A device for the inputting and carrying away of smoking rods or cooking rods to and from a loading station at which one rod at a time is tightly chucked at one end and supported whereby sausages on loops are automatically loaded on the rod, comprising:

• a magazine for storage and supply of a number of unloaded smoking rods or cooking rods,
• a controllable separating device which causes a movement of each rod separately out of the magazine to the loading station,
• a clamping device by which the rod in the loading station is tightly chucked at one end in a loading position, said clamping device also subsequently releasing the one end, and
• a transport device by which the rod, suspended in the loading position and loaded with sausages, is engaged after release by said clamping device at two points on the rod and is fed to a collection station,
• wherein said transport device comprises two conveyor belts which are driven synchronously and are parallel and at some spacing from each other, and on which said conveyor belts are arranged guide elements for supporting the rods at uniform spacing in pairs and in alignment with one another.