Drinking straw attachment device and method

US6990785B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• INDAG GESELLSCHAFT FUR INDUSTRIEBEDARF MBH & CO. BETRIEBS KG · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Peter Wild · Eppelheim, DE
• Eberhard Kraft · Neckarbischofsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 2002
• Grant date: Jan 31, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 2, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D77/28
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A drinking straw attachment device for attaching drinking straws to beverage containers, wherein the drinking straws are fed in the form of a drinking straw band provided with a glue layer, with a feeder device having, at least the point where the cutting device severs two drinking straws from each other, a recess matched in its height position with the glue layer and the height extension of which corresponds at least to the width of the glue layer. A method for attaching drinking straws to beverage containers includes cutting device drinking straw band into pieces between each of the two drinking straws with a cutting device in the area of the feeder device, and piercing the cutting device through the glue layer and the drinking straw band into a recess provided on the feeder device in a height position corresponding to the glue layer, and whereby the height extension of the recess corresponds at least to the width of the glue band.