Device (1) for changing the height level of sausage chains (2) between a filling pipe (4) and a suspension unit (5), the device having a transport device (3) with opposing, revolving conveyor belts (3a, b), characterized in that the conveyor belts (3a, b) are arranged in such a way that the second transport direction (TR2) of the sausage chains (2) transported between the conveyor belts (3a, b) are consistently oblique to a first transport direction (TR1) in which the filling tube (4) is extends, runs.
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