Abstract: In a machine for strapping a skid and a supported load by the use of a strap passing through aligned openings in the skid runners, a conveyor is provided for conveying the skid through a feeding zone. A turntable including powered rollers is provided for receiving the skid and the supported load from the conveyor, for positioning same within a strapping zone, and for rotating same within. A vertical scanner comprising a vertical array of photoelectric transmitters spaced from one another, on one side of the feeding zone, and a vertical array of photoelectric receivers spaced from one another, on the other side of the feeding zone, is provided for scanning the skid being conveyed. Two horizontal scanners, each comprising a single photoelectric transmitter and a single photoelectric receiver on each side of the strapping zone, are provided for scanning the skid being conveyed after it has been scanned by the vertical arrays.

Abstract: A strap-guiding mechanism is disclosed for guiding a strap through aligned openings in spaced stringers of a shipping pallet. A supporting beam defines a longitudinal track, along which a carriage is arranged to be longitudinally moved. An elongate channel is supported by the carriage, from the proximal end of the channel, as a cantilever. The channel has a base and two upstanding sides. Each side has an upper, generally tubular portion defining an axis. Two tensioning members are employed, preferably steel bars. Each member extends through the generally tubular portion of the upper side of the channel and is tensioned so as to impart axial compression to the generally tubular portion thereof, and so to counteract tendencies of the distal end of the channel to be downwardly deflected by gravity when the channel is supported as a cantilever. A motor is arranged to drive the carriage along the track via a chain and sprocket drive. Two longitudinal series of strap gates in side-by-side relation are employed.

Abstract: A collimator storage device for a collimator having a certain diameter. The device comprises a support, a first collimator storage member having a first slot for inserting the collimator, and a second collimator storage member having a second slot for inserting the collimator. The first and second collimator storage members are mounted at the support in a distance from each other which is smaller than the diameter of a collimator having smallest size such that the first and second slots combine for bearing a smallest size collimator or a collimator having larger diameter therebetween.

Abstract: A device for attaching a collimator to a radiation detector. A number of cleats are mounted at the radiation detector for cleating the collimator to the radiation detector and a latch means serves for latching the cleated collimator against rotation. Also a collimator cleating detection means is associated with the cleat means for detecting incorrect cleating of the collimator and a collimator latch detection means is associated with the latch means for detecting incorrect latching of the collimator.