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US 6,883,297 B2Granted
Apparatus for enclosing material in a net
AssigneePoly-clip System GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsEdward Kirk, Robert Pinto, Eggo Haschke
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Abstract
An apparatus and method of enclosing material in a net and supplying a handle for ease of carrying the netted material, comprising clippers, irises, and a handle maker. A conveyor carries the material to a pair of irises. The irises gather the netting around the material, the first clipper cuts and closes the netting, and the handle maker forms a loop out of the severed netting. The second clipper attaches the loop back to the netting to form a handle. A scale can be used to weigh the material and a printer can create a label, with the weight or whatever other information is desired, for attachment to the netting.
Claims31
An apparatus for enclosing material in a net, comprising
- a roll of netting, said roll having an open end and a closed end,
- means to place material in said netting through said open end of said roll,
- first means to gather said netting around said material,
- second means to gather said netting around said material,
- means for moving said second means to gather relative to said first means to gather,
- whereby said netting is stretched between said first means to gather and said second means to gather,
- a first clipper to close and sever said netting at said first means, to create a new closed end on said severed roll,
- a handle maker to form a loop from said stretched netting, and
- a second clipper to close said loop at said second gathering means.
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An apparatus for enclosing material in a net, comprising:
- a frame;
- a product tube carried by said frame, and adapted for receiving a net and for maintaining a first end of said net in an open position, a second end of said net being in a closed position, whereby the material to be enclosed can be conveyed from a first end of said product tube to engage said second end of said net at a second end of said product tube and unfurl a portion off said net from said product tube;
- a first iris held by said frame adjacent to said second end of said product tube and adjustable from an open position forming an aperture larger than the material, to a substantially closed position, whereby the material and said portion of engaged and unfurled net can be conveyed from said second end of said product tube through said first iris aperture and whereby first iris gathers said engaged and unfurled net in said substantially closed position;
- a second iris mounted on said frame and movable from a first position adjacent said first iris, to a second position remote from said first iris;
- said second iris being adjustable from an open position forming an aperture larger than the material, to a substantially closed position, whereby said second iris gathers said engaged and unfurled net in said substantially closed position;
- a tray mounted on said frame and movable from a first position protruding through said first iris and said second iris, to a second position remote from said first iris;
- a first clipper attached to said first iris and positioned to clip and sever the net gathered by said first iris and said second iris when said second iris is in said second position remote from said first iris, to form said closed position of said second end of said net on said product tube and a gathered strand of net on the material;
- a clamp rotatably attached to said frame to grasp said gathered strand and to rotate to form a loop in the gathered and severed net;
- a second clipper attached to said second iris and positioned to clip said loop to form a handle on the net on the material.
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An apparatus for enclosing material, comprising:
- a net;
- a frame;
- a product tube carried by said frame, receiving said net, and maintaining a first end of said net in an open position, a second end of said net being in a closed position, whereby the material to be enclosed can be conveyed from a first end of said product tube to engage said second end of said net at a second end of said product tube and unfurl said net from said product tube;
- a first iris held by said frame adjacent to said second end of said product tube and adjustable from an open position forming an aperture larger than the material, to a substantially closed position, whereby the material and said portion of engaged and unfurled net can be conveyed from said second end of said product tube through said first iris aperture and whereby first iris gathers said engaged and unfurled net in said substantially closed position;
- a second iris mounted on said frame and movable from a first position adjacent said first iris, to a second position remote from said first iris;
- said second iris being adjustable from an open position forming an aperture larger than the material, to a substantially closed position, whereby said second iris gathers said engaged and unfurled net in said substantially closed position;
- a tray mounted on said frame and movable from a first position protruding through said first iris and said second iris, to a second position remote from said first iris;
- a first clipper attached to said first iris and positioned to clip and sever the net gathered by said first iris and said second iris when said second iris is in said second position remote from said first iris, to form said closed position of said second end of said net on said product tube and a gathered strand of net on the material;
- a clamp rotatably attached to said frame to grasp said gathered strand and to rotate to form a loop in the gathered and severed net;
- a second clipper attached to said second iris and positioned to clip said loop to form a handle on the net on the material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.