Apparatus for hooping a package

US5577371A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Georg Lang · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Berthold Buehrle · Blaubeuren, DE
• Gerd Mosca · Fahrenbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 25, 1995
• Grant date: Nov 26, 1996
• Expiry date: Apr 25, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B13/06
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for hooping a package is described, in which the band in its end position, applied to the package and tensioned, defines a hooping plane which extends in the conveying direction. A band guide channel in the form of a plane, rectangular frame intersects the hooping plane at an acute angle in an intersection line at right angles to the conveying direction. The otherwise customary binding head has a stationary device for holding fast and joining the band loop ends and for separating the oncoming band, and a pivotable device separate therefrom for the insertion and pulling-back of the band. The pivotable device has a pivot axis substantially coinciding with the intersection line. On the insertion of the band into the band guide channel said pivotable device is situated in the frame plane and is pivoted into the hooping plane before or during the pulling-back of the band.