# US 2020/0086599 A1 · Packaging station for producing cushioning material > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2020/0086599 A1 - Document ID: US20200086599A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/746,953 - Filed: 2016-07-22 - Published: 2020-03-19 - Earliest claimed: 2015-07-24 - Assignees: Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co. - Inventors: Bastian Schalk; Oliver Schmidt - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200086599A1 ## CPC - B31D 5/0043: {including crumpling flat material} - B31D 5/0056: {involving belts} - B31D 2205/0023: as web from a roll - B31D 2205/0035: as fan folded web - B31D 2205/0047: Feeding, guiding or shaping the material - B31D: MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSES B31B OR B31C (manufacture by dry processes of articles made from particles or fibres consisting of wood or other lignocellulosic or like organic material B27N; making layered products not composed wholly of paper or cardboard B32B; making articles from cellulosic fibrous suspensions, e.g. wood pulp, D21J) ## Abstract A packaging station comprising a deformation device for converting a web of packaging material drawn from a supply of packaging material web, such as a leporello folded stacked web, into a dunnage material and a conveyor structure for receiving the drawn web of packaging material and for feeding the drawn web of packaging material into the deformation device, wherein the conveyor structure comprises a conveyor track extending from a reception of the conveyor structure to the deformation device and being dimensioned such that, after passing the reception, the web of packaging material is able to bear over its entire surface on the conveyor track in the conveying direction for at least the twofold of the width of the web. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A packaging station comprising a deformation device for converting a web of packaging material drawn from a supply of packaging web, such as a leporello folded stacked web, into a dunnage material and a conveyor structure for receiving the drawn web of packaging material and for feeding the drawn web of packaging material into the deformation device, wherein the conveyor structure comprises a conveyor track extending from a reception of the conveyor structure to the conversion device and being dimensioned such that, after passing the reception, the web of packaging material is able to bear over its entire surface on the conveyor track in the conveying direction for at least the twofold of the width of the web. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The packaging station according to claim 1, wherein the conveyor track is formed by a sheet or a mesh, particularly having a plane, preferably concavely-planar, sliding support facing the web of packaging material, particularly a sliding surface, which is in particular shaped in a curved manner, wherein in particular the reception of the conveyor track is formed by an essentially rectilinear edge extending essentially perpendicular with respect to the conveying direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The packaging station according to claim 1, wherein a plane, preferably concavely-planar, sliding support of the conveyor track comprises a sliding support width of at least one width of the web of packaging material or a sliding support length of at least two widths of the web. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The packaging station according to claim 1, wherein the conveyor track comprises the form of a bridge arc connecting the supply of packaging material web with the deformation device, wherein the radius of curvature of the bridge arc, in particular in the course of the conveyor track from the reception until the deformation device, is larger than the width of the web, preferably larger than the twofold width of the web, in particular larger than 50 cm or 100 cm, and/or wherein a raise of the bridge arc decreases from the reception until the deformation device, in particular a disposal to the deformation device, preferably constantly sinks until an apex of the delivery track, particularly starting at which the conveyor track sinks towards the deformation device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The packaging station according to claim 4, wherein a tangent direction forms an angle of reception smaller than 20°, 15° or 10°, preferably being larger than 0°, 1° or 5°, relative to the vertical direction at the reception of a concavely-planar sliding support of the conveyor track, particularly of the bridge arc, wherein in particular a tangential direction of a disposal of the concavely-planar sliding support relative to the vertical direction forms an angle of disposal smaller than 20°, 15° or 10°, preferably being larger than 0°, 1° or 5°. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The packaging station according to claim 1, wherein deformation device comprises a channel shaped deformation device that connects to the conveyor track, wherein the channel-shaped deformation device particularly comprises a concavely-planar channel bottom surface, the radius of curvature of which particularly corresponding to that of the conveyor track and/or a width (transverse to the conveying direction) of the channel cross section in the conveying direction particularly continuously decreases and a height of the channel cross section in conveying direction particularly continuously increasing. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The packaging station according to claim 1, wherein the deformation device comprises a tapering channel corridor opening into a disposal opening, wherein within the channel corridor a deformation of the web of packaging material is exclusively realized by the walls of the channel. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The packaging station according to claim 1, wherein the conveyor track is dimensioned such that, after passing the reception, the web of packaging material can bear, along the entire width of the web in the direction transverse to the conveying direction, on the conveyor structure with its entire surface. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The packaging station according to claim 1, wherein the deformation device is oriented relative to a vertical direction, in particular rigidly and in a fixed manner or adjustable in its inclination angle, such that the dunnage material leaving deformation device is oriented vertical downwardly at a disposal opening and/or wherein the conveyor structure, in particular a major portion of the conveyor structure connecting to the deformation device is positioned in the direction of gravity above the disposal opening, wherein in particular the reception of the conveyor structure is arranged essentially on the same height as the disposal opening.