Package making – Wrapping machines – Cover-wiping passage or pocket for initial wrap
Patent
1992-12-30
1995-08-22
Johnson, Linda
Package making
Wrapping machines
Cover-wiping passage or pocket for initial wrap
B65B 1128
Patent
active
054428947
ABSTRACT:
A packaging device wherein a thermoplastic packaging sheet is supplied to a peripheral part of a pocket opening of a winding wheel while a box-like item, transported into the pocket, is continuously transferred, the item being transported out of the pocket and delivered whereby the sheet is wound in a U-shape along the surface of the item, and both free ends of the sheet are folded, along the surface of the item while the item is continuously transferred, and then overlapped to thermally adhere to each other, wherein an applying wheel continuously rotating synchronously in a direction opposite to that of the winding wheel, is disposed on a downstream side of the winding wheel with each of the outer circumferences of the winding wheel and the applying wheel being provided with a plurality of pockets having the items transported therein, the winding and applying wheels, being equally spaced apart in a rotational direction and being continuously oppositely rotated in a synchronous manner, with both pockets being kept on a linear line over a predetermined segment across a delivery position where the pockets in the winding wheel and the applying wheel are opposite to each other in a linear line with pushers being utilized for pushing the items in the winding wheel pockets the applying wheel pocket, a sheet supplying mechanism supplying the sheet to the winding wheel outer circumference and a holding mechanism for temporarily holding the sheet around the opening of the winding wheel pocket.
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Hanazawa Yuji
Iwata Yasuo
Ogata Taizo
Shigeta Toshio
Johnson Linda
Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works Ltd.
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