Provided is a sausage sticking system capable of changing a position and an interval at which a chain of sausages is hung on a stably held stick according to a length of a casing. The sausage sticking system includes a hook conveying unit, a stick holding unit, and a pivoting imparting unit. A loop of a chain of sausages hooked on each of the pivoting hooks of the hook conveying unit is configured to be dropped onto a stick passing through the loop by which pivoting hooks are pivoted. The stick holding unit holds both ends of the stick, and includes a fixed arm and a pair of actuating arms, wherein the pair of actuating arras alternately holds the stick and avoids the loop of the chain of sausages. The pivoting imparting unit sequentially pivots the plurality of pivoting hooks at a predetermined pivoting imparting position.

A magnetic lifting device for bodies (Z) comprises an input transport device (10) for transporting lying bodies (4), a transport device (12) for transporting lifted bodies (9) hanging at the transport device (12) and arranged above the input transport device (10) and a control device (13). A first magnet arrangement (1) which is activated and deactivated by the control device (13) is arranged below the input transport device (10) in such a way that a body (4) lying on the input transport device (10) is magnetically held in a releasable way on the input transport device (10). A second magnet arrangement (2) is arranged above an area of the input transport device (10), in which the bodies are transported, and is formed in such a way that a body lying on the input transport device (10) is lifted by the magnetic field of the second magnet arrangement (10) when the magnetic field of the first magnet arrangement (1) is deactivated. A third magnet arrangement (3) is provided above the transport device (12) and is formed and arranged in such a way that a partially lifted body (4a) is lifted more and is lifted off the input transport device (10) and is transported in an upright position hanging magnetically at the transport device (12). The control device (13) is adapted to activate the first magnet arrangement (1) when a front edge of a body (4) lying on the input transport device (10) has passed the second magnet arrangement (2) and to deactivate the first magnet arrangement (1) when a trailing edge of this body (4) comes to lie below the second magnet arrangement (2).

A magnetic lifting device for bodies (Z) comprises an input transport device (10) for transporting lying bodies (4), a transport device (12) for transporting lifted bodies (9) hanging at the transport device (12) and arranged above the input transport device (10) and a control device (13). A first magnet arrangement (1) which is activated and deactivated by the control device (13) is arranged below the input transport device (10) in such a way that a body (4) lying on the input transport device (10) is magnetically held in a releasable way on the input transport device (10). A second magnet arrangement (2) is arranged above an area of the input transport device (10), in which the bodies are transported, and is formed in such a way that a body lying on the input transport device (10) is lifted by the magnetic field of the second magnet arrangement (10) when the magnetic field of the first magnet arrangement (1) is deactivated. A third magnet arrangement (3) is provided above the transport device (12) and is formed and arranged in such a way that a partially lifted body (4a) is lifted more and is lifted off the input transport device (10) and is transported in an upright position hanging magnetically at the transport device (12). The control device (13) is adapted to activate the first magnet arrangement (1) when a front edge of a body (4) lying on the input transport device (10) has passed the second magnet arrangement (2) and to deactivate the first magnet arrangement (1) when a trailing edge of this body (4) comes to lie below the second magnet arrangement (2).

A lath placer configured to dispose a lath perpendicular and over a row of lumbers comprises a conveyor assembly and a lath-transfer assembly. The conveyor assembly includes at least one lath-supporting lug to move the lath seized at a lath pick-up position. The lath-transfer assembly comprises a unit frame including a transient lath store, a lath-capturing finger movable to capture the lath from one of the at least one lath-supporting lug located at a lath-transferring position and release the lath on the transient lath store, a lath-pushing finger movable to push the lath away from the transient lath store, a rotatable lath-transfer arm including a lath-supporting segment and rotatable between a lath-grasping configuration and a lath-delivering configuration, and a lath-grasping finger movable to grasp the lath located on the lath-supporting segment of the rotatable lath-transfer arm at the lath-grasping configuration and to release the lath at the lath-delivering configuration.

A lath placer configured to dispose a lath perpendicular and over a row of lumbers comprises a conveyor assembly and a lath-transfer assembly. The conveyor assembly includes at least one lath-supporting lug to move the lath seized at a lath pick-up position. The lath-transfer assembly comprises a unit frame including a transient lath store, a lath-capturing finger movable to capture the lath from one of the at least one lath-supporting lug located at a lath-transferring position and release the lath on the transient lath store, a lath-pushing finger movable to push the lath away from the transient lath store, a rotatable lath-transfer arm including a lath-supporting segment and rotatable between a lath-grasping configuration and a lath-delivering configuration, and a lath-grasping finger movable to grasp the lath located on the lath-supporting segment of the rotatable lath-transfer arm at the lath-grasping configuration and to release the lath at the lath-delivering configuration.