# US 7,607,277 B2 · Work piece wrapping apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,607,277 B2 - Document ID: US7607277B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 10/598,668 - Filed: 2004-03-12 - Published: 2008-09-04 - Granted: 2009-10-27 - Earliest claimed: 2004-03-12 - Assignees: Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd. - Inventors: Akihiro Tsuchiya; Toshio Yoshinari - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7607277B2 ## CPC - B65B 11/10: to fold the wrappers in tubular form about contents - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) ## Abstract A work piece wrapping apparatus for wrapping a work piece being transported along a transporting path of the work piece is provided with: a wrapping sheet supply device that supplies the wrapping sheet onto a transporting path of the wrapping sheet intersecting the transporting path of the work piece; a delivery guide device that causes the work piece to be wrapped by pushing the wrapping sheet with the work piece; and a spreading guide provided on the periphery surface of a transit aperture of the delivery guide device, and whose center area in the transverse direction protrudes toward the rear in a transporting direction of the work piece so as to gradually spread the wrapping sheet out from a center area in the transverse direction of the work piece towards both edges thereof with the work piece advances through the transit aperture. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A work piece wrapping apparatus for wrapping a work piece being transported along a transporting path of the work piece in a wrapping sheet, comprising: a wrapping sheet supply device that supplies the wrapping sheet onto a transporting path of the wrapping sheet intersecting the transporting path of the work piece; a delivery guide device that includes a pair of delivery guides and causes the work piece to be wrapped by pushing the wrapping sheet with the work piece which is pushed on the transporting path of the work piece so as to cause the work piece to pass through a transit aperture that is provided between the pair of delivery guides; and a spreading guide provided on a periphery of the transit aperture on a surface of each of the pair of delivery guides facing to the rear in a transporting direction of the work piece of the delivery guide device, and whose center area in a transverse direction of the work piece protrudes toward the rear in the transporting direction of the work piece so as to gradually spread the wrapping sheet out from a center area in the transverse direction of the work piece towards both edges thereof with the work piece advances through the transit aperture. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 1, wherein smoothing pads that cause the wrapping sheet to contact tightly to a surface of the work piece are provided on surfaces of the delivery guides facing each other across of the transit aperture, and the smoothing pads are formed by a plurality of bristles and a space between a pair of the smoothing pads that face each other across the transit aperture is set so as to be less than the thickness of the work piece. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The wrapping apparatus according to one of claim 2, wherein a correction guide that elastically presses the work piece is provided upstream side from the delivery guide device in the transporting path of the work piece. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of suction belts that feed the wrapping sheet forward between the transporting path of the work piece and the delivery guide device while suctioning the wrapping sheet are provided in the wrapping sheet supply device, and the spacing between the plurality of suction belts gradually widens on the transporting path side of the wrapping sheet such that tension is placed on the wrapping sheet. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 4, wherein at least three suction belts are provided, and in the suction belt located in the center, a non-suction area is provided in the vicinity of the transporting path of the work piece. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 4, wherein an air guide that discharges de-electrification air towards the wrapping sheet being transported by the suction belts on the transporting path of the wrapping sheet onto the wrapping sheet is provided. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of suction belts that feed the wrapping sheet forward between the transporting path of the work piece and the delivery guide device while suctioning the wrapping sheet are provided in the wrapping sheet supply device, and the spacing between the plurality of suction belts gradually widens on the transporting path of the wrapping sheet such that tension is placed on the wrapping sheet. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 7, wherein at least three suction belts are provided, and in the suction belt located in the center, a non-suction area is provided in the vicinity of the transporting path of the work piece. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 7, wherein an air guide that discharges de-electrification air towards the wrapping sheet being transported by the suction belts on the transporting path of the wrapping sheet onto the wrapping sheet is provided. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a correction guide that elastically presses the work piece is provided upstream side from the delivery guide device in the transporting path of the work piece. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a plurality of suction belts that feed the wrapping sheet forward between the transporting path of the work piece and the delivery guide device while suctioning the wrapping sheet are provided in the wrapping sheet supply device, and the spacing between the plurality of suction belts gradually widens on the transporting path of the wrapping sheet such that tension is placed on the wrapping sheet. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 11, wherein at least three suction belts are provided, and in the suction belt located in the center, a non-suction area is provided in the vicinity of the transporting path of the work piece. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 11, wherein an air guide that discharges de-electrification air towards the wrapping sheet being transported by the suction belts on the transporting path of the wrapping sheet onto the wrapping sheet is provided. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of suction belts that feed the wrapping sheet forward between the transporting path of the work piece and the delivery guide device while suctioning the wrapping sheet are provided in the wrapping sheet supply device, and the spacing between the plurality of suction belts gradually widens on the transporting path of the wrapping sheet such that tension is placed on the wrapping sheet. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 14, wherein at least three suction belts are provided, and in the suction belt located in the center, a non-suction area is provided in the vicinity of the transporting path of the work piece. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The wrapping apparatus according to claim 14, wherein an air guide that discharges de-electrification air towards the wrapping sheet being transported by the suction belts on the transporting path of the wrapping sheet onto the wrapping sheet is provided.