Device for packing foodstuffs in cans

1,097,114. Packaging machines. TSEN. TRALNOE KONSTRUKTORS KOE BJURO MINISTERSTVA RYBHOGO KHOZYAISTVA. Feb. 14, 1966, No. 6371/68. Heading B8C. In a device for canning fish, individual fishes are conveyed down vibrating feeding pipes 12, Fig. 2, which converge at a sleeve 3, and into pockets 8 on an intermittently rotating table 7, a rotating cutting disc 6, intermittently introduced between the lower end of the sleeve and the table, cutting off lengths of fish. After a pocket has been filled, the table 7 is rotated through 90 degrees to position the filled pocket below an inverted can held on an intermittently rotating table 26, the cans having been fed from a conduit 27. In this position, a clamp 9 holds the can over the pocket while the contents are pushed upwards by a spring- loaded piston into the can. The table 26 is then rotated through 180 degrees and the can is pushed into a turnover device 11, from which the cans are removed the right way up. The pipes 12, shaped to accommodate a single fish, are movably linked with a shoot 5 and are vibrated by an attachment (2), Fig. 1 (not shown). Their lower ends are received in a tapering sleeve 4.