Transportation assembly with separation device

A transportation assembly for transporting sausage shaped products, like sausages, out of a clipping machine for producing sausage-shaped products in a transportation direction to a rod-like storing element, like a smoking rod, wherein each sausage-shaped product comprises a filled tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing closed on at least one end by a closing means, like a closure clip, and a suspension element, like a suspension loop, attached to the end closed by said closure means,

• the transportation assembly comprises a guiding device having a bar-shaped guiding element along which the sausage-shaped product is guided by its suspension element, and a transportation device for transporting the sausage-shaped product along the guiding element by engaging the suspension element of the sausage-shaped product, wherein the suspension element is held in an open configuration by the weight of the filled tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing to which it is attached by the closure means, and
• wherein a separation device is provided at the guide element, for removing a suspension element from the guiding element, which is transported by the transportation device without a tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing attached thereto.