Abstract: A strapping machine for palletized loads wherein probes are positioned and held against movement at the upper edges of the load. The strap which secures the load to the pallet is snubbed around the probes as the strap is tautened. After the strap has been tautened and clamped, the probes are removed so that the tautened strap engages the upper edges of the load.

Abstract: A strap feeding and tensioning machine is disclosed wherein strap is fed at a high rate of speed about a package so as to form a loop which is then tensioned and subsequently can be sealed. The loop is formed so that the leading end of the strap is overlapped by a trailing end of the strap and the resulting overlapped strap portions are joined together by means of an external seal, by friction fusion, or in any other convenient manner. The feeding and tensioning mechanism comprises a rotatable winder drum equipped with a pair of arcuate feed guide means, a feed wheel rotatably mounted on the winder drum, and reversible driving means for the winder drum and the feed wheel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for collecting and handling recycleable waste paper wherein paper is formed into a stack, baled, transferred to an intermediate transfer device such as a hand truck and transported to a area where the stack of baled paper is transferred to a primary transfer device such as motor truck vehicle of the common highway or road type.To collect the paper and to form the same into a stack, there is provided a collection box or receptacle that is adapted to receive the paper with sheets or portions of the paper being stacked so as to form an upright stack. The collection box is particularly adapted to allow strapping or banding material to be wrapped and inserted around the stack of paper while still being supported within the box or receptacle, thereby allowing the entire stack of paper to be bound or baled prior to removal from the collection box.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the bundling of both floating and submerged logs. The log bundling apparatus comprises at least one L-shaped frame, each frame including at least one leg portion and at least one base portion extending outwardly from and rigidly connected to the leg portion, each leg portion adapted to be secured to a support structure situated within a body of water, whereby each base portion and a lower section of each leg portion is adapted to be submerged beneath a surface of the body of water. An arm structure is pivotally secured to each base portion adjacent a free end thereof. Actuating means are mounted between each L-shaped frame and each pivotable arm structure, the actuating means adapted to pivot its respective arm structure from an open position in which the arm structure is submerged beneath the surface of the water to a closed position wherein a free end of each arm structure extends above the surface of the water.

Abstract: An automobile tire stacking and strapping machine embodying a stacking station where a predetermined number of tires are upstacked by successive application thereof to the bottom of a stack undergoing erection, and the completed stack is transferred bodily to a strapping station and deposited therein. At the strapping station, lengths of strapping material are passed endwise through the eye of the stack, brought around the outer side thereof in overlapping relationship to provide closed loops, the loops tensioned and the loop overlaps sealed together, the excess strapping severed from the loops, and the thus strapped stack pushed from the machine to a discharge area. The strapping operation is conducted on each stack at the strapping station while a preceding stack of tires is undergoing erection at the stacking station.