Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
053556000 | APPARATUS FOR CONTRACTION OF COVER BY STRETCHING OR SHRINKING | 30 |
20090049806 | Mandrel for disposing a stretchable wrapper around an object - A mandrel ( | 02-26-2009 |
20090241486 | Belt Driven Clamping Arrangement For Gripping And Advancing Web Material In A Packaging Machine - A packaging machine includes a clamping arrangement, composed of a series of clamps designed to grip and release a web of flexible material, and which are coupled to a belt that is advanced along a predetermined path to advance the web of flexible through the machine. The belt is made up of side-by-side belt portions that are spliced together in axially spaced locations by the clamps, to withstand the forces and stresses placed thereon as the web material is advanced. Each clamp is formed of an upper jaw member and a lower jaw member that are pivotably interconnected together, in combination with a guide member the guides movement of the belt through the machine. The belts are independently driven by operation of a pair of motors, which are synchronously operated in order to advance the opposite edges of the web material at the same rate of speed through the machine. | 10-01-2009 |
20110067364 | Carriage For A Stretch Wrapping Machine - A stretch wrap assembly comprising a base, a turntable mounted on the base, a column on the base and a carriage movable upon the column. The carriage includes a first, second, third and fourth nip rollers and first and second pre-stretch rollers. The carriage is configured to have stretch wrap threaded through the carriage from a roll of stretch wrap, around a portion of a circumference of the first nip roller, the first pre-stretch roller, the second pre-stretch roller, and the fourth nip roller and to the package. The nip rollers can be on a chassis to be able to move rotationally and laterally relative to the first pre-stretch roller and the second pre-stretch roller. | 03-24-2011 |
20110072764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEALING CONTAINERS - A sealing system configured to receive a container and seal the container with a lidding. The system comprises an in-feeder that is configured to receive a plurality of containers and transport a batch of containers that are selected from the plurality of containers; and a modular seal assembly that is configured to seal the batch of containers with a lidding, wherein the modular seal assembly comprises: a docking station that is configured to hold a plurality of sealing modules; and a sealing module that is configured to be removable from the docking station without removing any other one of the plurality of sealing modules. | 03-31-2011 |
20110185687 | APPARATUS FOR WRAPPING A STACK OF OBJECTS WITH A FILM - An apparatus for wrapping an object with a film has a film-feed head having a drive for pulling the film from a supply and feeding it in a feed direction through the head toward an object to be wrapped with the film and a pull-down device downstream in the direction from the head for drawing the film around the object. A blower directs a stream of air in the feed head parallel and immediately adjacent to the film and in the feed direction so as to entrain the film in the direction. | 08-04-2011 |
20130192176 | SHRINK PACKING SYSTEM - A packing unit of a shrink packing system which shortens time required for a packing process. For this purpose, the packing unit includes four supporters arranged at both sides of a transfer conveyer, two elevators combined with the four supporters so as to be upwardly and downwardly movable, and four telescopic arms combined with the two elevators so as to be movable in the moving direction of the transfer conveyer and to be extensible and retractable in the lengthwise direction. | 08-01-2013 |
20130227919 | STRETCH WRAP CARRIAGE THREADING DEVICE - A carriage for a stretch wrap assembly including a threading assembly for moving a front end of the stretch wrap through the housing. The threading assembly includes a manually movable system moving the front end of the stretch wrap, the manually movable system comprising an endless link moving about a plurality of rotating members and being located at a bottom surface of the top of the housing. The threading assembly includes a handle extending through the top of the housing. Roller axes and thread axes are parallel and spaced from each other such that none of the roller axes are collinear with the thread axes. | 09-05-2013 |
20140230380 | Apparatus for Packaging an Object with a Tubular Film - An apparatus for packaging an object with a tubular film, includes: a main frame, a stretch frame for stretching the tubular film and to applying the tubular film to the object, and a top frame having a feeding device for delivering a tubular film from a film magazine to the stretch frame and having a cutting device to cut the tubular film to a predetermined length. The top frame is moveable at the main frame between a working position and a maintenance position. In the maintenance position the top frame is located outside the work space. | 08-21-2014 |
20150033679 | Packaging Device - A packaging device includes a conveyance mechanism, a guide portion and a control portion. The control portion is configured to cause a first section of a film to be bonded to a base, cause the conveyance mechanism to convey the base toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction, move the guide portion along a movement path, cause the conveyance mechanism to convey the base toward the upstream side, cause a second section of the film to be bonded to the base, and cause the film to be moved in an opposite direction to a feeding direction at any time during a period after the first section is bonded to the base and before the second section is bonded to the base, the feeding direction being a direction in which the film is fed out when the base is conveyed. | 02-05-2015 |
20150047301 | ROTARY WRAPPING MACHINE FOR PACKAGING OBJECTS - A rotary wrapping machine ( | 02-19-2015 |
20150075120 | STRETCH FILM WRAPPING SYSTEM - A stretch film wrapping system for wrapping film about loads includes a wrap location for receiving loads to be wrapped; a film dispensing system including a film roll support mandrel assembly supported on a load cell that provides an output indicative of weight of the film roll support mandrel assembly and any film roll mounted thereon; and a control system for receiving the output of the load cell and configured to utilize load cell output to determine amount of film used for wrap operations. | 03-19-2015 |
20150298836 | Stretch Wrapping Machine Structure - A stretch wrapping machine structure contains: a rotary disc including a column on which a guide way is arranged; an abutting plate including a rotating stem and a pushing portion adjacent to the rotating stem; a hot pressing sheet including a cutter seat, a driven bar, and a press segment; a holder including a V-shaped cross section and formed in a plate shape, the holder also including an actuation member, an actuating post, an operating segment, and a third cylinder; a biasing rod including a driving peg and a push segment; a controlling unit secured on a predetermined position of one side of the column; an air blowing unit located at a predetermined position of the holder. Thereby, an object is held on the rotary disc and is packed by a plastic film quickly and easily. | 10-22-2015 |
20160039552 | STRETCH PACKAGING MACHINE - A stretch packaging machine is provided with a lift mechanism and a tray movement mechanism. The lift mechanism has a plurality of loading members on which a tray is loaded and which lift up the tray toward film such that the tray contacts the film sealing an opening at the top of the tray. The tray movement mechanism is configured to move the tray slidingly over the loading members of the lift mechanism to a predetermined position on the loading members. A frictional coefficient of at least first loading members is such that contact between the tray and the loading members disposed on the near side in the moving direction in which the tray is moved by the tray movement mechanism is smaller than the frictional coefficient of second loading members disposed on the far side in the moving direction. | 02-11-2016 |
20160122053 | EASY THREAD CARRIAGE FOR STRETCH FILM WRAPPING SYSTEM - A stretch film wrapping machine includes a wrap location and a film carriage that is movable during wrap operations. The film carriage includes a first driven roller, a second driven roller and a drive a drive arrangement for the driven rollers. The carriage includes a primary frame part and a secondary frame part. A film path runs between the primary frame part and the secondary frame part and passes between the driven rollers. The secondary frame part moves relative to the primary frame part between an open position for film threading and a closed position for operation. The second driven roller is mounted to the secondary frame part for movement therewith and has a driven gear that engages with a drive gear of the drive arrangement when the secondary frame part is in the closed position. In the open position the driven gear dis-engages from the drive gear. | 05-05-2016 |
20160200467 | PORTABLE STRETCH WRAPPING MACHINE | 07-14-2016 |
053557000 | By heat shrinking | 15 |
20100126122 | Packaging machine for packs of beverage containers and related conveying device - A conveying device and a packaging machine for beverage containers are disclosed. The beverage containers are grouped as packs and wrapped with film, comprising a horizontal conveying device including an endlessly circulating conveyor chain whose movable members and/or meshes each have a supporting structure and contact areas for the packs and/or coatings that include significant portions of PTFE plastic. The contact areas of plastic have a thickness corresponding to at least 10% of the thickness of the supporting structure covered and/or coated therewith | 05-27-2010 |
20100293901 | Shrink Systems for Labels - A shrink system for a labelling system includes a return duct and a make up duct connected to the inlet of a fan. A valve regulates the temperature of air supplied to the inlet by varying the proportion of air flow between the return and make up ducts. The output of the fan is supplied to a nozzle configured to entrain ambient air with the outlet from the nozzle. | 11-25-2010 |
20120137639 | CHAMBER SHRINK WRAPPING MACHINE - A chamber shrink wrapping machine having a longitudinal body defining a lower portion of a chamber, a hood with an integral L-sealer transversely hinged to the body to define an upper portion of the chamber when lowered, an air heater to supply heated air to the chamber, a roller conveyor mounted to the body to initially support a product to be wrapped in the chamber longitudinally and transversely closely adjacent the L-sealer during sealing and cutting of heat-shrinkable film around the product when the hood is lowered, wherein the body defines longitudinal and transverse horizontal air ducts in the lower portion of the chamber to direct heated air toward the L-sealer and around the product. | 06-07-2012 |
20120222393 | Machine for the Automatic Packaging of Loose Products or Products Placed in Trays, with a Usually Heat-Weldable Stretch Film - A machine for the automatic packaging of loose products or products placed in trays, with a usually heat-weldable stretch film, comprises means for unrolling sections of stretch film from a supply reel, separating said sections of film (F) into lengths appropriate for the dimensions of the product to be packaged, by transverse cutting, and positioning the sheet of film thus obtained, horizontally, in a packaging station (C), holding said sheet by the opposite longitudinal sides by means of parallel pairs (G | 09-06-2012 |
20130167488 | HOT WIND SUPPLYING APPARATUS FOR PACKAGING PRODUCT - A hot wind supplying apparatus having high energy consumption efficiency for packaging a product by use of a heat shrink film, capable of promoting the economics of a packaging work, the hot air supplying apparatus including at least one hot wind unit configured to discharge hot wind to a packaging surface of the product, wherein the hot wind unit includes a body having a discharging hole, at least one blower fan configured to blow air to the discharging hole, at least one fan motor configured to drive the blower fan, a heater configured to heat air that is to be discharged from the discharging hole, and at least one recycling flow path configured to collect the air discharged from the discharging hole and to supply the air collected to an intake side of the blower fan. | 07-04-2013 |
20130255201 | PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SEALING DEVICE - The invention relates to a packaging machine including a sealing device, said sealing device comprising at least a first and an individually controllable second sealing tool for producing a first and a second seal uniting a lower web with a top web. | 10-03-2013 |
20140020343 | TANGENT STREAM THERMAL SHRINKING DEVICE - A tangent stream thermal shrinking device includes a chassis, along two side of which two position adjusting mechanisms are arranged. Each position adjusting mechanism has at least one mounting section, of which the position is adjustable. Mounting seats that are respectively mounted to the mounting sections of the position adjusting mechanisms each form at least one track slot. Hot air dispensers are respectively coupled to the track slots of the mounting seats and are thus angular position adjustable along the track slots to discharge hot air streams along paths that are tangential to a circumference of an article outside which a heat shrink film wraps. A hot air supply device supplies hot air to the hot air dispensers to have the heat shrink film fast and uniformly heated and shrunk for packaging. | 01-23-2014 |
20140020344 | SHRINK FILM HEATING DEVICE - A shrink film heating device includes a chassis above which a hood is arranged. A conveyor belt and a driving belt are arranged between the chassis and the hood. The hood has an upper wall to which at least one heating assembly is mounted to supply hot air into a hollow interior space of the hood. The hood has front and rear walls forming openings that define a heating channel through the hood. Two heat homogenization assemblies are respectively set at opposite sides of the heating channel inside the hood and include a conduit coupled to an air supply source in order to supply regulate temperature air into the hood for mixing with and uniformly distributing high temperature air uniformly through the interior space of the hood so as to achieve uniform heating of a packaged object moving through the heating channel. | 01-23-2014 |
20140053515 | APPARATUS FOR HEAT SHRINKING A FILM WRAPPING AN OBJECT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE APPARATUS - The invention relates to an apparatus for heat shrinking a film wrapping an object and a method for operating such an apparatus. The apparatus includes a heat treatment chamber and a transport device for supporting and moving the object through the heat treatment chamber. Steam is supplied to a fluid outlet device including one or more nozzles. The apparatus further includes a window arranged to allow an operator to look inside the heat treatment chamber. To improve continuous viewing capabilities the apparatus further includes a blurring reduction system. A fluid flow is generated along an inner side of the window. | 02-27-2014 |
20140130463 | Packaging Device - A packaging device includes a conveyance mechanism, a first guide portion, and a processor. The conveyance mechanism is configured to convey, along a conveyance path, a base on which an object is placed. The first guide portion is configured to guide a film and to move along a movement path. The processor is configured to cause the conveyance mechanism to convey the base toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction. The processor is further configured to cause the first guide portion to move along the movement path from above to below the conveyance path after the base is conveyed toward the downstream side to a first position. The processor is further configured to cause the conveyance mechanism to convey the base toward the upstream side to a second position after the first guide portion is moved to below the conveyance path. | 05-15-2014 |
20140130464 | Packaging Device - A packaging device includes a conveyance mechanism, a guide portion, a heating portion, and a processor. The conveyance mechanism is configured to convey, in a conveyance direction along a conveyance path, a base on which an object is placed. The guide portion is configured to guide a film for packaging and to move along a movement path. The heating portion is provided below the conveyance path, is configured to heat the film, and includes a plurality of heating units that are arranged parallel to the conveyance path and that are arranged side by side in a direction intersecting the conveyance direction. Each of the plurality of heating units includes a heater and an urging portion. The urging portion is configured to urge the heater upward toward the conveyance path. The processor is configured to cause the heating portion to heat the film guided to a lower side of the base. | 05-15-2014 |
20140208700 | Heat isolation apparatus for heat-shrinkable packaging - Heat isolation apparatus for capturing a specific area of heat-shrinkable plastic film used for packaging objects suitable for packaging as a heat-shrinkable package to prevent heat from reaching a specific area of the heat-shrinkable plastic film; a slotted track for transporting the heat-shrinkable plastic film and object to be packaged throughout the heat isolation apparatus; means for inserting the heat-shrinkable plastic film in an area of the heat isolation apparatus for capturing a portion of the heat-shrinkable plastic film that forms a designated area removed from the application of heat; means for propelling the heat-shrinkable plastic film and object to be packaged through the heat isolation apparatus; heat tunnel means for applying heat to the heat-shrinkable plastic film surrounding the object to be packaged and not to the plastic film captured by the apparatus; the means for propelling moving the object and heat-shrinkable plastic film to the heat tunnel; and means for securely capturing the designated area of heat-shrinkable plastic film to be isolated from the heat within the heat tunnel. | 07-31-2014 |
20140260122 | THERMAL SHRINK PACKAGING MACHINE - A thermal shrink packaging machine is revealed. A receiving base is disposed on a machine plate. Two slide rails are respectively arranged at two sides of the receiving base while a slide unit is set between the two slide rails. A power source is arranged at the receiving base and an output shaft of the power source is connected to the slide unit. The slide unit is disposed with a cutter and a vacuum nozzle. A curved guiding piece is set on the machine plate. A tear part cutter is arranged over the cutter. Thereby a tear part is formed by the tear part cutter cutting correspondingly to a tear line of thermal shrink film when the cutter is cutting the thermal shrink film. Thus users can tear apart the thermal shrink film along the tear line easily by holding the tear part. | 09-18-2014 |
20150291299 | Heat Shrink Device for a Bottom of a Sleeve Label - A heat shrink device includes a front conveyor, a baker, and a rear conveyor mounted on a frame in sequence. Left and right conveyors are respectively located on two sides of the frame and are located above the front and rear conveyors. Each of the left and right conveyors gradually declines from a front end thereof towards a rear end thereof. A container wrapped with a sleeve label can be conveyed rearward by an upper run of the front conveyor. The left and right conveyors together clamp and convey the container and the sleeve label rearward. The left and right conveyors gradually push a bottom of the sleeve label beyond a bottom face of the container. The baker bakes the bottom of the sleeve label to cause the bottom of the sleeve label to heat shrink and envelope a peripheral area of the bottom face of the container. | 10-15-2015 |
20160122058 | SHRINK WRAP TUNNEL - A heat shrink tunnel with width adjustment includes a pair of opposing side wall assemblies, each including an outer wall and an inner perforated wall defining a plenum therebetween. The opposing side walls define a product path with the side wall assemblies being movable toward and away from each other. A heater/blower assembly disposed in each of the opposing side walls and has an outlet directed into the product path. A shroud extends over the side wall assemblies and an open top space between the side all assemblies. The side wall assemblies extend upwardly toward an inside of the shroud so as to define a small gap between tops of the side wall assemblies and the inside of the shroud. The shroud has a bottom wall. A conveyor is configured to convey items through the heat shrink tunnel. A tunnel includes a side wall assembly width adjusting assembly to move the side walls toward and away from one another by actuation of a single actuator. | 05-05-2016 |