Stretch foil wrapping arrangement

US4711069A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• B. Hagemann Gmbh & Co. · DE

Inventor

• Peter Silbernagel · Ochtrup, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 25, 1986
• Grant date: Dec 8, 1987
• Expiry date: Jul 25, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B11/008
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A stretch foil wrapping arrangement for wrapping objects. The objects are conveyed to a transition bridge around which a stretch foil tube is wrapped. As the objects are conveyed through the transition bridge they pass inside of the tube which is out after the object and tube portion in which it is wrapped leave the transition bridge. The transition bridge includes upper and lower conveyors each having an outer actively driven belt and an inner passively driven roller plane in contact with the objects.