Apparatus for producing sausages

An apparatus for producing packages filled with filling, by filling and subsequently closing tubular or bag-shaped sausage casings, comprising

• a filling machine (12) which has at least one filling tube (26, 28) with an orifice (30, 32) onto which a sausage casing (34) can be drawn and be passed through the filling, in order to fill the sausage casing (34),
• a closing machine (14) for closing filled sausage casings or sausage casing sections, which with respect to the filling stream is disposed in the filling tube (26, 28) downstream of the orifice (30, 32) of the filling tube (26, 28),
• a residual casing remover (70) for removing the unfilled remainder of a sausage casing (34) from the filling machine, the closing machine or from both,
• a magazine (80) for unfilled sausage casings (34'), and
• a movable gripper (82) for withdrawing an unfilled sausage casing (34') from the magazine (80) and for drawing the same onto the filling tube (26).