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US 2022/0063850 A1Published application
Strapping tool
AssigneeSignode Industrial Group LLC
InventorsAndreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
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Abstract
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.
Claims10
A strapping tool comprising:
- a support;
- a sealing assembly mounted to the support and movable relative to the support between a sealing assembly home position and a sealing assembly sealing position, the sealing assembly comprising multiple jaws pivotable from respective jaw home positions to respective jaw sealing positions,
- a conversion assembly comprising a linkage operably connected to the sealing assembly and configured to move the sealing assembly between the sealing assembly home position and the sealing assembly sealing position and configured to move the jaws between their jaw home positions and their jaw sealing positions, wherein the conversion assembly is configured to change an effective length of the linkage while moving the sealing assembly from the sealing assembly home position and the sealing assembly sealing position;
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- a drive assembly operably connected to the conversion assembly and configured to drive the linkage.
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