Package making – Wrapping machines – Cover-wiping passage or pocket for initial wrap
Patent
1985-11-18
1986-12-16
Sipos, John
Package making
Wrapping machines
Cover-wiping passage or pocket for initial wrap
53223, 53228, 53230, B65B 1106, B65B 4908
Patent
active
046286640
ABSTRACT:
An ice cream sandwich wrapping apparatus includes an elevator which raises the ice cream sandwich to a wrapping position at which the wrapper extends over the top of and is draped along the sides of the ice cream sandwich, the elevator including a platform having a supporting surface for supporting the ice cream sandwich; a conveyor positioned adjacent the platform and including a conveying surface substantially coplanar with the supporting surface such that the ice cream sandwich can be pushed from the supporting surface to the conveying surface, the conveying surface including at least one recessed section open at an end thereof adjacent the platform; and a shoe movable in a direction toward and into abutment with the ice cream sandwich when the latter is on the supporting surface of the elevator, the shoe including a rear tucker for wrapping a rear buttom tuck panel of the wrapper about the ice cream sandwich as the shoe travels in the direction toward the ice cream sandwich, and a pusher fixedly connected with the rear tucker for pushing the ice cream sandwich from the supporting surface onto the conveying surface during continued movement in the direction toward and into abutment with the ice cream sandwich, the rear tucker extending into the at least one recessed section during such continued movement, wherein a single movement and a single shoe is used for both wrapping the ice cream sandwich and pushing the ice cream sandwich onto the conveyor.
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Burry-Lu, Inc.
Jackson David A.
Sipos John
Studebaker Donald R.
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