Abstract: A tension wrap packaging machine has a supporting frame and a driving assembly mounted in the supporting frame, a main drive shaft is mounted in the supporting frame and at one end has a combined supporting member and safety closure disc fixedly connected thereto to be rotated by the drive shaft when the driving assembly is in operation. Mounted and rotatable with the combined supporting member and closure disc are a package supporting assembly for supporting a package to be wrapped thereon and in spaced relation thereto a wrapping material supporting assembly for the material to wrap the package. Package supporting assembly and wrapping material supporting assembly in addition to rotating with the closure disc are independently rotatable, the package supporting assembly being rotated by a planetary driving means, and the wrapping material supporting assembly being rotated by an auxiliary driving means operatively connected between the driving assembly and wrapping material supporting assembly.

Abstract: A material supporting assembly preferably for holding material for wrapping a package in packaging machinery has an elongated rotatably mounted inner supporting mandril, an elongated hollow outer support shaft slidably mounted on said inner support mandril for longitudinal telescopic movement relative the same and to provide means for mounting a roll of wrapping material thereon, an inner shoulder formed on said outer support shaft having a beveled face thereon disposed to engage the inner end of said wrapping material roll, and a gripping element threadably connected to the end of said outer support shaft remote from said beveled face including angled gripping members for engaging and holding the outer end of the wrapping material roll on said outer support shaft.

Abstract: A tension wrap packaging machine has a supporting frame and a driving assembly mounted in the supporting frame, a main drive shaft is mounted in the supporting frame and at one end has a combined supporting member and safety closure disc fixedly connected thereto to be rotated by the drive shaft when the driving assembly is in operation. Mounted and rotatable with the combined supporting member and closure disc are a package supporting assembly for supporting a package to be wrapped thereon and in spaced relation thereto a wrapping material supporting assembly for the material to wrap the package. Package supporting assembly and wrapping material supporting assembly in addition to rotating with the closure disc are independently rotatable, the package supporting assembly being rotated by a planetary driving means, and the wrapping material supporting assembly being rotated by an auxiliary driving means operatively connected between the driving assembly and wrapping material supporting assembly.