System and apparatus for strapping packaging articles or packaging materials, and methods of use
AssigneeEam-Mosca Corporation
InventorsMichael Eugene Cornett, Christopher Edmund Grymko, Michael Anthony Hoover
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Abstract
Apparatus, system and process useful for bundling packaging articles particularly in a stack thereof. The apparatus and system includes at least a first bundling apparatus and second bundling apparatus, wherein the relative linear displacement of the first bundling apparatus and the at least second bundling apparatus is variable, and which further includes a reconfigurable bridge between the first bundling apparatus and the second bundling apparatus. A process of utilizing the apparatus and system is also disclosed. Also disclosed is a bidirectional strap magazine which may be used with one or more of the bundling apparatus.
Claims16
An apparatus for bundling packaging articles, which comprises:
- a first bundling apparatus,
- at least a second bundling apparatus, wherein the relative linear displacement of the first bundling apparatus and the at least second bundling apparatus is variable,
- a reconfigurable bridge between the first bundling apparatus and the second bundling apparatus which spans between an exit edge of the first bundling apparatus and an entrance edge of the second bundling apparatus, wherein the span of the bridge may be re-dimensioned in order to maintain a substantially contiguous and continuous transport surface between the exit edge of the first bundling apparatus and the entrance edge of the second bundling apparatus whose dimensions can be varied in response to the lateral positioning and changes thereto between the first bundling apparatus and the second bundling apparatus.
A bidirectional strap magazine having:
- an interior reservoir to temporarily contain part of the strap in an untensioned state,
- a guide block defining a first guide channel configured to receive a strap which enters from a first feed end, a second guide channel configured to receive a strap from an opposite, second feed end, wherein the first and second guide channels continue to a strap exit, and a strap feed gate which, when in a first position allows for entry of a length of strap into the interior reservoir and therein to be held in an untensioned state, but when in a second position guides strap within the first guide channel or second guide channel towards a diverter adjacent to the strap exit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.