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US 12,291,361 B2Granted
Strapping tool
AssigneeSignode Industrial Group LLC
InventorsMirco Neeser, Kurt Bolliger, Andreas Keller
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Abstract
A strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.
Claims16
A strapping tool comprising:
- a support;
- a tensioning assembly mounted to the support and pivotable relative to the support and about a tensioning-assembly pivot axis between a strap-tensioning position and a strap-insertion position;
- and
- a rocker lever mounted to the tensioning assembly and pivotable relative to the tensioning assembly and about a rocker-lever pivot axis between a home position and an intermediate position, wherein the tensioning-assembly pivot axis is different from the rocker-lever pivot axis, wherein the rocker lever comprises a body defining a slot therethrough;
- a travel pin fixedly connected to the tensioning assembly and extending through the slot to enable the rocker lever to pivot relative to the tensioning assembly from the home position to, but not past, the intermediate position and from the intermediate position to, but not past, the home position;
- wherein the rocker lever is pivotable relative to the support and about the tensioning-assembly pivot axis from the intermediate position to an actuated position to move the tensioning assembly from the strap-tensioning position to the strap-insertion position.
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