Method and device for strapping packagings, products for packaging or grouped items

US9493256B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Michael Hartl · Unterhaching, DE
• Manuel Kollmuss · Raubling, DE
• Kurt Perl · Rimsting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 28, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 15, 2016
• Expiry date: Jul 16, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B65/006
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for strapping groups, bundles, packaged goods, and/or grouped articles or grouped packaged goods, having at least one strapping band, which is placed and/or tensioned approximately horizontally and/or vertically and/or diagonally around the exterior of the bundles, packaged goods, or groups of articles, or groups of packaged goods, the strapping band forming either an open or a closed ring, which is tensioned to form a firm assembly of the bundles, packaged goods, etc. A magazine feeds the strapping band to at least one application head for applying the strapping respectively to a group, to a bundle, to at least one packaged good, and/or to the grouped articles or grouped packaged goods. In addition, the strapping band extends and is conveyed largely without being guided and/or in a free-floating manner, at least within an operating range of the application head.