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US 9,849,646 B2Granted
Dunnage forming machine and method of forming dunnage
AssigneeEasypack Limited
InventorJonathan Townsend
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Abstract
A driven crimping gear (10) cooperates with the first idler crimping gear (12) and the second idler crimping gear (14). The gears pull paper of a roll (12) which paper has had the edges curled over. The paper is guided through the gears by plates (28) and (30).
Claims23
A dunnage forming machine comprising:
- cooperating dunnage forming gears including a sun gear arranged to cooperate with at least two planet gears, and in which material being transformed into a dunnage is arranged to travel around the sun gear between the at least two planet gears;
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- a first pair of spaced guides arranged to cooperate with the dunnage being formed and arranged to face one side of the dunnage, wherein the first pair of spaced guides are configured to deflect the material from one of the two planet gears to another of the two planet gears.
A dunnage forming machine, comprising:
- a first rotating member having teeth;
- a second rotating member having teeth that meshes with the first rotating member;
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- a third rotating member that engages with the first rotating member such that the third rotating member rotates with the first rotating member;
- wherein the first rotating member and the second rotating member are configured to receive a multi-layer material in between the first rotating member and the second rotating member, wherein the first rotating member and third rotating member are configured such that the material travels around the first rotating member and between the engagement between the first rotating member and third rotating member.
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A dunnage forming machine comprising:
- a first rotating member;
- a second rotating member that engages with the first rotating member such that the second rotating member rotates with the first rotating member;
- a third rotating member that engages with the first rotating member such that the third rotating member rotates with the first rotating member;
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- wherein the first rotating member and the second rotating member are configured to receive material and drive the material via engagement in between the first rotating member and the second rotating member with the material entering along a first direction as it is received at the second rotating member, wherein the first rotating member and third rotating member are configured such that the material travels around the first rotating member and between the engagement between the first rotating member and third rotating member exiting the engagement with the third rotating member in a second direction;
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- wherein the first direction is defined by the overall material path received by the second member and the second direction is defined by the overall material path after the third rotating member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.