# US 2014/0151357 A1 · Tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0151357 A1 - Document ID: US20140151357A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/705,812 - Filed: 2012-12-05 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2012-12-05 - Inventors: TZU-CHIN HUNG - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140151357A1 ## CPC - B65B 53/063: {Tunnels} - B65B 53/066: {Mobile frames, hoods, posts or the like} - F24H 3/004: {with a closed circuit for a heat transfer liquid} - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) - F24H: FLUID HEATERS, e.g. WATER OR AIR HEATERS, HAVING HEAT-GENERATING MEANS, e.g. HEAT PUMPS, IN GENERAL (steam generation F22) ## Abstract A tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film has a chassis, a heating chamber, air blowers, and high-temperature airstream ejectors. The heating chamber is mounted on the chassis and the heating channel is under the heating chamber. The air blowers are mounted to a bottom of the chassis. The high-temperature airstream ejectors are respectively fit into the mounting holes of the heating chamber. Heated air is discharged through a high-temperature airstream discharging opening of the air blade section under a respective high-temperature airstream ejector. A high-temperature airstream discharging opening is located inside the heating channel of the heating chamber. Each high-temperature airstream ejector can be rotationally adjusted so that the high-temperature airstreams are supplied along routes defined by different tangents at different angles along the circumference of a film-packaged article. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film, comprising: a chassis; at least a heating chamber, which is mounted on the chassis, a heating channel being arranged under the heating chamber to allow a film-packaged article to pass, the heating chamber having a top wall in which a plurality of mounting holes and a high-temperature air collection section are formed; a plurality of air blowers, which is mounted to a bottom of the chassis, the air blowers each comprising an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening and functioning to pressurize air drawn in through the air inlet opening for discharging through the air outlet opening, the air inlet opening of each of the air blowers being connected through a collection pipe to the high-temperature air collection section of the heating chamber; and a plurality of high-temperature airstream ejectors, which is respectively fit into the mounting holes of the heating chamber and is rotatable, either clockwise or counterclockwise, along a circumferential track of the mounting hole, each of the high-temperature airstream ejectors having an upper end forming an intake opening, the intake opening being connected through a connection tube to the air outlet opening of the respective air blower in order to supply the air pressurized by the air blower to the airstream ejector for heating, the high-temperature airstream ejector having a lower end forming a high-temperature airstream discharging opening, the high-temperature airstream discharging openings being located at two sides of the heating channel of the heating chamber, the high-temperature airstream discharging opening of each of the high-temperature airstream ejectors having a high-temperature airstreams discharging route located on a different tangential route of a circumference of a film-packaged article at different angles. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 1, wherein the chassis comprises an enclosure mounted thereon, the enclosure enclosing the heating chamber. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounting holes of the heating chamber are each provided with at least an indicator at a circumference thereof. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 3, wherein the indicator is triangular. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 1, wherein the high-temperature air collection section of the heating chamber forms a plurality of connection holes, the connection holes being respectively connected to the collection pipe of the air inlet opening of the air blower. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 1, wherein the high-temperature airstream ejectors comprise: a casing, which forms, in an outside wall thereof, at least an opening, the casing having a lower end being inserted into the respective mounting hole of the heating chamber; an air intake tube, which is arranged inside the casing, the air intake tube having an upper end forming an intake opening, the intake opening being connected through the connection tube of the air outlet opening of the air blower, in order to supply air that is pressurized by the air blower into the air intake tube; a heater, which is mounted outside the air intake tube to heat the air contained in the air intake tube, the heater having two power wires extending out through the opening of the casing for connection with an external power supply; and an air blade section, which is coupled under the casing, whereby the air blade section, after inserted into the mounting hole of the heating chamber to be located at two sides of the heating channel, the air blade section each forming a high-temperature airstream discharging opening, the air blade section being connected to the lower end of the air intake tube to allow the heated air contained in the air intake tube to be discharged through the airstream discharging opening. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 6, wherein the casing has a lower end circumferential flange forming an angular indexing disk, the angular indexing disk having a surface forming a plurality of angle markings, each of which indicates a corresponding reference for identifying clockwise or counterclockwise rotational angle and position of the casing. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 6, wherein the heater comprises an electrical heating filament. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 6, wherein the air blade section forms therein an air discharge tube, the air discharge tube having an end connected to a lower end of the air intake tube. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The tangential airstream heat shrinking device of plastic film as claimed in claim 9, wherein the air discharge tube comprises a stop bar arranged therein.