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US 4,566,378 AGranted
Apparatus for hooping a fiber bale in a fiber bale press
AssigneeVepa AG
InventorGerold Fleissner
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InventorGerold Fleissner
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A fiber bale press is equipped with a hooping mechanism for applying wire-hoops to a fiber bale produced by the press. The press has at least one pressing plate and a counter pressure plate as well as a hoop material supply device. The hoop material is steel wire cut to suitable lengths for forming hoops. The steel wire ends are secured to each other by a sealing member, such as a tubular metal sleeve, which receives one steel wire end in each of its ends. The tubular metal sleeve is rigidly secured to the ends of the hoop forming wire by a crimping mechanism. Preferably the steel wires are hooped around a bale in a cross-over relationship so that at least the wire-hoops close to and in parallel to a bale edge are held in place by wire-hoops running perpendicularly to the bale edge. This mechanism avoids loops at the ends of the baling wire.
A fiber bale wire hooping apparatus for surrounding a fiber bale in a baling press with a metal wire the ends of which are held together by a crimped metal sleeve, comprising a strapping mechanism including wire supply means (16) having wire feeding and tensioning means (17, 25) for supplying lengths of wire, wire guide means (21, 31, 41, 44) forming a guide channel along at least three sides around said fiber bale for guiding a length of wire around said fiber bale, wire end holding means (22) at an end of said guide channel for temporarily holding a forward free end of a wire, wire clamping and bending means (20) arranged downstream of said wire feeding and clamping means (17, 25) as viewed in a wire feed advance direction from said wire supply means (16) to said holding means, wire cutting means (18) arranged downstream of said feeding and tensioning means (17, 25) and upstream of said wire clamping and bending means (20) for cutting a wire after a wire has been first tensioned by said feeding and tensioning means (17, 25) and then clamped by said clamping and bending means (20), means (51) for automatically applying a metal sleeve (6) onto a cut end of a wire, means (19, 36, 35) for tilting said clamping and bending means (20) holding a wire end with a sleeve on said wire end toward said holding means (22), whereby a wire end protruding from said holding means is also inserted into said sleeve alongside said cut wire end, and means (70, 71) arranged for crimping said sleeve for tightly securing said wire ends to each other.
A fiber bale wire hooping apparatus for surrounding a fiber bale in a baling press with a metal wire the ends of which are held together by a crimped metal sleeve, comprising first and second carriage means movable relative to said baling press, a first plurality of strapping mechanisms on said first carriage means, a first corresponding plurality of guide means on said first carriage means arranged for cooperation with said first plurality of strapping mechanisms for tying wire hoops around said fiber bale in a first direction, a second plurality of guide means on said first carriage arranged substantially at right angles to said first plurality of guide means, a second plurality of strapping mechanisms arranged on said second carriage means for cooperation with said second plurality of guide means on said first carriage means for tying wire hoops around said fiber bale in a second direction extending substantially at right angles to said first direction, (FIG. 5).
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