Automatic seal machine for bank bags and the like
AssigneeEdge Technology
InventorsErnest D. Scott, Gregory W. Scott, Donald L. Tedder
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Abstract
A hand-held apparatus for tensioning a bundling strap about an item to be bundled having a motor and a rotatable output shaft coupleable to one end of an elongated external screw threaded shaft supported for rotation at its opposite end by an end cap. A guide block is adapted for linear reciprocal movement along the shaft between the hand-held unit and the end cap and has threads corresponding to screw threads on the shaft, the guide block having connected thereto means for gripping the bundling strap. A reversible power means energizes the hand-held unit and reverses or halts the direction of rotation of the output shaft upon exertion of a predetermined force upon the guide block.
Claims7
An apparatus for tensioning a bundling strap about an item to be bundled, comprising:
- (a) a reversible hand-held unit having a motor and a rotatable output shaft means coupleable to one end of an elongated external screw threaded shaft supported for rotation at its opposite end by an end cap means;
- said end cap means being integrally connected to said handheld unit;
- (b) a guide block means adapted for linear reciprocal movement along said shaft between said hand-held unit and said end cap means and having threads corresponding to screw threads on said shaft, said guide block means having connected thereto means for gripping said bundling strap;
- (c) power means for energizing said hand-held unit and reversing or halting the direction of rotation of said output shaft means upon the exertion of a predetermined force upon said guide block.
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said second indicia means is integrally connected to said end cap means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.