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AssigneeRanpak Corp.
InventorsRaimond Demers, Erwin Riga, Dan Coppus, Patrick Klemke, Kristien Varrewaere
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A tabletop converter has a conversion assembly that inwardly gathers and crumples a stock material to form a strip of dunnage. The conversion assembly includes a feeding assembly that moves the stock material and a controller that controls the feeding assembly to operate in both a forward direction and a reverse direction. To automatically separate a discrete dunnage product from the strip, a holder grabs and holds the strip of dunnage at a holding location downstream of the feeding assembly. The feeding assembly then operates in a reverse direction and urges the strip away from the holding location. This causes the strip to separate at or between the holding location and the feeding assembly, leaving a discrete dunnage product ready for use. The converter is mounted to a stand that allows the converter to rotate relative to part of the stand about both a horizontal axis and a vertical axis.
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A dunnage converter that converts sheet stock material into relatively lower density dunnage products, comprising:
A dunnage converter that converts a sheet stock material into a relatively lower density dunnage product, comprising:
For use in a dunnage conversion machine having a feed assembly that engages a sheet stock material and moving the sheet stock material through the conversion machine to produce a relatively less dense dunnage product, a check valve mountable adjacent to and upstream of the feed assembly,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.