Apparatus for bundling elongate articles
AssigneeYoshida Kogyo K.K.
InventorsKozo Watanabe, Masashi Kawada, Yozo Okada
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Abstract
A number of elongate articles such as slide fasteners are discharged from a discharging mechanism and placed on a length of a band web which has been supplied from a reel on a bundle tray by means of a feed mechanism. The length of the band web has a free end and an opposite end gripped by a gripper mechanism. End portions of the length of the band web are ultrasonically fused to each other by a fusing mechanism constituted by an ultrasonic horn and an anvil. The opposite end of the length as it is gripped by the gripper mechanism is cut off by a cutter mechanism to form a band bundling the elongate articles, which are then discharged by the bundle tray.
Claims14
An apparatus for bundling a number of elongate articles with a band, comprising:
- (a) a bundle tray;
- (b) a reel for the band web;
- (c) a feed mechanism for supplying a length of the band web from said reel onto said bundle tray;
- (d) a discharger for discharging a number of elongate articles onto said length on said bundle tray;
- (e) a gripper mechanism disposed on one side of said bundle tray for gripping a free end of said length;
- (f) a presser mechanism disposed on an opposite side of said bundle tray for pressing an opposite end of said length so as to be gripped by said gripper mechanism with said length surrounding said elongate articles;
- (g) a fusing mechanism for fusing end portions of said length to each other;
- (h) a holder mechanism for holding said elongate articles when said opposite end of said length is gripped by said gripper mechanism;
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- (i) a cutter mechanism for cutting said length off said band web at said opposite end of said length as it is gripped by said gripper mechanism, thereby producing a band bundling said elongate articles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.