Feeding device for guiding and providing one-piece ties
AssigneeHellermannTyton Corporation
InventorsOliver Dohrmann, Carsten Scheel
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a feeding device for guiding and providing one-piece ties, with a hose unit and a funnel unit. The hose unit is designed to guide a respective one-piece tie in a hose inner via an air flow along the hose unit towards an outlet end of the hose unit and subsequently in an outlet direction out of the outlet end of the hose unit to the funnel unit. The funnel unit is arranged at the outlet end of the hose unit on the hose unit and is designed to receive the respective one-piece tie guided through the hose unit.
Claims20
A feeding device for guiding and supplying one-piece ties comprising:
- a hose unit designed to guide a respective one-piece tie along the hose unit in a hose inner via an air flow toward an outlet end of the hose unit and subsequently in an outlet direction out of the outlet end of the hose unit to a funnel unit;
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- the funnel unit arranged at the outlet end of the hose unit and on the hose unit, the funnel unit designed to receive the respective one-piece tie guided through the hose unit,
- wherein the hose unit has a bend in an end region encompassing the outlet end, and
- wherein the funnel unit has a funnel element arranged rotatably about an axis of rotation running along the outlet direction via a drive element of the funnel unit relative to the outlet end of the hose unit, the funnel element includes a slit at the end region remote from the outlet end of the hose unit in the outlet direction, and the slit is formed to receive a band of the respective one-piece tie.
A system comprising:
- an automatic bundling tool for bundling a bundle good with one-piece ties;
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- a feeding device for guiding and supplying the one-piece ties, the feeding device comprising:
- a hose unit designed to guide a respective one-piece tie along the hose unit in a hose inner via an air flow toward an outlet end of the hose unit and subsequently in an outlet direction out of the outlet end of the hose unit to a funnel unit;
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- the funnel unit arranged at the outlet end of the hose unit and on the hose unit, the funnel unit designed to receive the respective one-piece tie guided through the hose unit,
- wherein the hose unit has a bend in an end region encompassing the outlet end, and
- wherein the funnel unit has a funnel element arranged rotatably about an axis of rotation running along the outlet direction via a drive element of the funnel unit relative to the outlet end of the hose unit, the funnel element has a slit at the end region remote from the outlet end of the hose unit in the outlet direction, and the slit formed to receive a band of the respective one-piece tie.
A method for guiding and providing one-piece ties comprising:
- guiding a respective one-piece tie along a hose unit in a hose inner of the hose unit towards an outlet end of the hose unit via an air flow;
- guiding the respective one-piece tie through an end portion of the hose unit that has a bend;
- guiding the respective one-piece tie in an outlet direction out of the outlet end of the hose unit to a funnel unit;
- receiving the respective one-piece tie by the funnel unit, wherein a band of the respective one-piece tie is received by a slit in a funnel element of the funnel unit;
- checking an orientation of the respective one-piece tie received by the slit to determine if the orientation is a first orientation or a second orientation;
- responsive to determining the first orientation, providing the respective one-piece tie in the first orientation;
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- responsive to determining the second orientation:
- rotating the respective one-piece tie received by the slit about an axis of rotation extending along the outlet direction from the second orientation to the first orientation;
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- providing the respective one-piece tie in the first orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.