Abstract: A package of goods having a lower surface is wrapped by first pulling a bag down over the stack until a lower edge of the bag hangs past the stack, then grabbing the hanging lower edge and pulling the grabbed edge down to pull the bag snugly over the package. This grabbed edge is then pressed against the lower package surface and is attached to the lower package surface. The lower edge is grabbed at at least two opposite locations and is there pulled, pressed, and attached. The grabbed edge is pulled down by gripping the grabbed edge and lifting the package. The edge can be attached by gluing it to the surface or by welding it to the surface.

Abstract: A generally parallepipedal package comprised of a stack of goods sitting on a pallet has four horizontally directed sides, vertically oppositely directed top and bottom faces, and upper and lower horizontally extending edges meeting at upper and lower corners. It is wrapped by first securing an end of a stretch foil to the package adjacent the bottom face, then drawing the foil from one of lower corners of one of the sides diagonally across the one side to the diagonally opposite upper corner of the one side while maintaining the foil taut, and then laying the foil on and along the upper edge of the adjacent side extending perpendicularly from the one side to the opposite upper corner with the foil contacting both the top face and the one side.

Abstract: A pallet unit consisting of a stack of articles on a pallet is wrapped both vertically and horizontally with a foil band by orbiting a wrapping satellite in a vertical plane while the unit is supported on a pair of support arms which pass through the orbit for vertical wrapping and the orbit is swung into a horizontal position and raised and lowered for horizontal wrapping of the unit. The vertical wrapping is only effected along two vertical sides of the stack and the foil wrap passes between the skids of the pallet.

Abstract: An apparatus for wrapping a stack of articles with a stretch foil in which the satellite has a deflecting roller over which the foil passes and which is braked by a hydraulic motor in proportion to the speed of the deflecting roller. An arm can swing out and carries a mirror to monitor breakage of the foil, the mirror intercepting a light beam from a stationary force on the machine frame. For both the brake and the foil-break monitor, no slip rings are required.