Package making – Methods – With contents treating
Patent
1998-05-18
1999-08-10
Moon, Daniel B.
Package making
Methods
With contents treating
53116, 53450, 53553, 53555, 2425334, 242538, B65B 6304
Patent
active
059340460
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed apparatus and method for packaging individual strand segments of a strand material, such as dental floss, including apparatus for carrying out a method of supplying strand material to a rotatable strand positioning element through a hollow shaft thereof positioned to wind the strand material around a selected mandrel of a circular array of mandrels together with controlling the moving of mandrels within and removing mandrels from within the circular path of the rotating strand positioning element and for counting the rotations of the strand positioning element and using that rotation count to control the advance of the array of mandrels wherein the mandrels having openings for entry of a pick-off element and are caused to be lowered to leave the coil of strand material on the pick-off element, following which the coil of strand material is urged forward by an air jet to be captured between two sheets of packaging film and transported to a stage where the packaging film sheets are sealed together around the coil to form a package in a chain of packages which then may be separated to form individual packages.
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