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US 12,330,829 B2Granted
Case sealer configurable into a bypass configuration
AssigneeSignode Industrial Group LLC
InventorsDiana Jarrell, Michael Trevor Wolf
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Abstract
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a random case sealer configurable into a bypass configuration in which a tape cartridge is out of the path of a case so the tape cartridge does not apply tape to the case as the case moves past the tape cartridge.
Claims20
A case sealer comprising:
- a frame;
- a lower drive element supported by the frame;
- a lower-drive-element actuator operably connected to the lower drive element and configured to drive the lower drive element;
- a tape cartridge comprising a mounting plate, a roller arm supported by the mounting plate, and a roller supported by the roller arm, wherein the tape cartridge is supported by the frame and movable relative to the lower drive element between a home position and a bypass position, wherein when the tape cartridge is in the home position, the roller is positioned to engage a leading surface of a case as the lower drive element moves the case toward the tape cartridge;
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- a tape-cartridge mover operably connected to the tape cartridge and configured to move the mounting plate and the roller arm relative to the frame such that the tape cartridge moves from the home position to the bypass position to lower the roller.
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A method of operating a case sealer to move a case past a tape cartridge of the case sealer without applying tape to the case, the method comprising:
- providing the case sealer in a home configuration in which the tape cartridge is in a home position in which a roller of the tape cartridge is positioned to engage a leading surface of the case as a lower drive element of the case sealer moves the case toward the tape cartridge, wherein the tape cartridge further comprises a mounting plate and a roller arm supported by the mounting plate, wherein the roller arm supports the roller;
- responsive to a case-bypass condition being met, switching the case sealer from the home configuration into a bypass configuration to move the mounting plate and the roller arm such that the tape cartridge moves from the home position to a bypass position to lower the roller;
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- actuating the lower drive element to move the case past the tape cartridge when the case sealer is in the bypass configuration such that the tape cartridge does not apply tape to the case.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.