Packaging machine

• US 3,146,695 A
• Filed: 12/26/1961
• Issued: 09/01/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: De Bilt Pieter Arnoldus Van
• Original Assignee: De Bilt Pieter Arnoldus Van
• Inventors: DE BILT PIETER ARNOLDUS VAN
• Application Number:
  US04/161,914
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• US Class Current: 100/4
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 13/02 Applying and securing binding material around articles or groups of articles, e.g. using strings, wires, strips, bands or tapes
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 13/06 Stationary ducts or channels
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 13/28 by twisting

Claims

1. A PACKAGING MACHINE FOR APPLYING WIRE AROUND A PACKAGE OR THE LIKE, SAID MACHINE HAVING A TOP PLATE FOR SUPPORTING A PACKAGE, A FRAME OF LOOP FORMATION PROVIDED WITH A WIRE TRACK FOR GUIDING A WIRE AROUND THE PACKAGE, SAID FRAME HAVING A LOWER HORIZONTAL BEAM IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE TOP PLATE, FIRST AND SECOND VERTICAL MEMBERS EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM THE ENDS OF THE LOWER HORIZONTAL BEAM, AN UPPER HORIZONTAL BEAM EXTENDING BETWEEN THE UPPER ENDS OF THE VERTICAL MEMBERS, SAID LOWER BEAM HAVING A FIRST WIRE-RECEIVING CHANNEL EXTENDING THERETHROUGH, THE FIRST VERTICAL MEMBER HAVING A VERTICAL CHANNEL CONNECTED AT ITS LOWER END TO THE FIRST CHANNEL OF THE LOWER BEAM AND FORMING A CONTINUATION THEREOF, SAID UPPER BEAM HAVING A CHANNEL EXTENDING THERETHROUGH CONNECTED AT ONE END TO THE UPPER END OF THE CHANNEL OF SAID FIRST VERTICAL MEMBER, THE SECOND VERTICAL MEMBER HAVING A CHANNEL CONNECTED TO THE OTHER END OF THE CHANNEL IN THE UPPER BEAM AND EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY, SAID LOWER BEAM HAVING A SECOND CHANNEL CONNECTED TO THE LOWER END OF THE CHANNEL IN SAID SECOND VERTICAL MEMBER AND EXTENDING THROUGH THE LOWER BEAM IN OFFSET OVERLAPPING RELATION TO THE FIRST CHANNEL IN SAID LOWER BEAM, SAID CHANNELS IN THE VERTICAL MEMBERS AND THE UPPER BEAM BEING SERIALLY CONNECTED BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND CHANNELS IN THE LOWER BEAM TO PROVIDE A WIRE-GUIDING TRACK OF LOOP FORMATION, REVERSIBLE MEANS TO FEED WIRE THROUGH SAID WIRE-GUIDING TRACK TO FORM A LOOP WITH THE PORTION ADJACENT THE LEADING END OF SAID WIRE IN THE SECOND CHANNEL OF THE LOWER BEAM OVERLAPPING A PORTION OF THE WIRE IN THE FIRST CHANNEL OF THE LOWER BEAM AND TO RETRACT THE WIRE FROM SAID TRACK, A TILTABLE CLAMP AT THE END OF THE SECOND CHANNEL OF THE LOWER HORIZONTAL BEAM, SAID CLAMP HAVING WIRE-GRIPPING MEANS MOVABLE BETWEEN OPENED AND CLOSED POSITIONS AND ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE LEADING END OF THE WIRE FED THROUGH THE TRACK OF THE FRAME AND TO TILT IN THE DIRECTION OF FEED MOVEMENT OF THE WIRE WHEN ENGAGED BY SAID LEADING END OF THE WIRE, A PNEUMATIC CYLINDER FOR MOVING THE WIRE-GRIPPING MEANS BETWEEN OPENED AND CLOSED POSITIONS, MEANS FOR RELEASING A LOOP OF WIRE FROM THE TRACK IN THE FRAME UPON REVERSAL OF SAID FEED MEANS TO EMBRACE THE PACKAGE, MEANS FOR TENSIONING THE LOOP OF WIRE ABOUT THE PACKAGE, MEANS FOR HOLDING THE TENSIONED WIRE, MEANS FOR CONNECTING THE ENDS OF THE TENSIONED LOOP OF WIRE ABOUT SAID PACKAGE, A PNEUMATIC CIRCUIT FOR AIR UNDER PRESSURE, A PNEUMATICALLY OPERATED SLIDE VALVE FOR CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF AIR INTO AND FROM THE PNEUMATIC CYLINDER, A PILOT VALVE IN SAID CIRCUIT, AND MEANS OPERABLE BY TILTING MOVEMENT OF THE TILTABLE CLAMP PRODUCED BY THE LEADING END OF THE WIRE FOR ACTUATING THE PILOT VALVE TO ADMIT AIR TO A PILOT PORT OF THE SLIDE VALVE TO ACTUATE SAID SLIDE VALVE TO SUPPLY AIR TO SAID CYLINDER.