Package making – Partial cover application – Band or tube
Patent
1993-04-13
1995-05-02
Johnson, Linda B.
Package making
Partial cover application
Band or tube
531372, B65B 1304, B65B 2710
Patent
active
054108616
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for banding groups of elongated items, including a conveyor for propelling trough-like carriers of groups of items to be banded. Each group of items passes through two sets of rotating spoked wheels positioned two above the conveyor and two below the conveyor with the two upper spoked wheels positioned in spaced relationship to one another so as to position one over each of the two oppositely disposed ends of the groups of items and over the lower spoked wheels. The spoked wheels are timed so that spoke tips of the upper wheels will contact spoke tips of the lower wheels as the ends of the grouped items pass between the spokes. Each of the spoked wheels carries a continuous strip of banding material spanning across the tips of the spokes. As the carriers pass the groups through the spokes of the wheels, the banding material is laid over the top and the bottom surfaces of each end of the grouped items, and the upper and lower spokes are brought together to draw the banding material tightly across the top and bottom of the items, whereat contact between the top and bottom banding material strips is made and secured, such as with adhesive, so as to define a loop of banding wrapped tightly around each of the ends of the bundled items. Cutting blades then sever the contacting and affixed top and bottom banding strip, thus separating the connected bundles into individual units.
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