Indexing Material Between Successive Placements Patents (Class 100/14)
  • Patent number: 10820525
    Abstract: A banding system for an agricultural baler is configured to move a banding element around a crop package to band the crop package. The banding system includes a support member having a support surface configured to support the crop package. The support member includes a channel defined by an opening in the support surface. The channel is further defined by a first surface opposite a second surface and a third surface extending between the first and second surfaces. The first surface is at least partially defined by an angled surface angled relative to the second surface. The angled surface includes an apex positioned away from the opening. The banding system also includes a bander unit configured to move the banding element within the channel to band the crop package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Timothy J. Kraus
  • Patent number: 10820526
    Abstract: A banding system for an agricultural baler is configured to move a banding element around a crop package to band the crop package. The banding system includes a support member having a support surface configured to support the crop package. The support member includes a channel defined by an opening in the support surface. The channel is further defined by a first surface opposite a second surface and a third surface extending between the first and second surfaces. The first surface at least partially defines an angled surface tapering toward the second surface such that an apex of the angled surface partially forms the opening. The banding system also includes a bander unit configured to move a banding element within the channel to band the crop package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Timothy J. Kraus
  • Patent number: 10806090
    Abstract: A system is configured to prepare and band a crop package. The system includes an agricultural baler configured to move relative to a surface. The agricultural baler includes a formation chamber configured to form the crop package into a substantially cylindrical shape. The agricultural baler also includes a banding mechanism configured to band the crop package within the formation chamber in the cylindrical shape with a first banding element. The system also includes a mobile reconfiguration and bander assembly configured to move relative to the surface. The reconfiguration and bander assembly is configured to form the cylindrical shaped crop package into a substantially different shape and to band the crop package in the different shape with a second banding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Timothy J. Kraus
  • Patent number: 10252823
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for arranging a plurality of foods, in particular different types of cut meat products and sausage products, in at least one base portion of a packaging. The method is characterized in that the base portion receiving the foods is moved on a guide track, wherein magnetic fields are generated for moving the base portion; in that the cart is fed successively to food feeds of the individual foods; and in that at least one food is placed on or in the base portion at each food feed. The apparatus has at least two food feeds whose respective food transfer ends are arranged above a guide track on which carts which have packaging receivers having at least one receiving frame are movable by means of magnetic field sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: WEBER MASCHINEBAU GMBH BREIDENBACH
    Inventor: Marco Bergmann
  • Patent number: 9844844
    Abstract: An example packaging line to pack profiles having a U-shaped or a C-shaped cross-section includes a first conveyor and a second conveyor to transfer profiles. The first conveyor and the second conveyor are spaced from and parallel to each other. The example includes a head block to move upward and downward. The first conveyor and the second conveyor transfer profiles to an area beneath the head block. The example includes a rotor, carried by the head block, to couple to a first profile transferred by the first and second conveyors with a concave side of the first profile facing upwards. The rotor rotates the first profile such that the concave side of the first profile is facing downwards over a second profile, where a concave side of the second profile is facing upward, and the rotor releases the first profile to insert the first profile into the second profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: The Bradbury Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Ricardo Barone, Francisco Ansoain, Andrés Novillo
  • Patent number: 9643526
    Abstract: A horizontal ejection system for a vehicle. An ejector is adapted to travel axially through the interior from the front to the back of the truck body. A hydraulic system includes a hydraulic circuit for moving the ejector, and an ejector signal processing system signals the hydraulic circuit. The ejector signal processing system includes one or more proximity switches for detecting the location of the ejector and triggering the movement of the ejector. The switches are disposed on the truck body to sense the location of both the ejector and the tailgate. As a result, the hydraulic circuit is signaled to control the hydraulic system and thereby move the ejector based on a position of the ejector and the tailgate, wherein, in combination, the ejector and the tailgate control a load of material within the truck body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Somerset Welding & Steel, Inc.
    Inventors: Sydney W. Riggs, Ronald E. Wright, Thomas R. Pletcher, Michael D. Riggs
  • Patent number: 9599544
    Abstract: A method for preparing a bale sample, a bale sampling apparatus, and a bale sample are provided. The method includes the steps of removing a portion from a bale of fibrous material and wrapping an elongated substrate completely around the portion to form a bale sample. The elongated substrate includes identification information. The identification information includes information that associates the bale sample with the bale of fibrous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: LANGSTON COMPANIES INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Harold Hart, Anton G. Holty, Edward D. Mayer
  • Patent number: 9415952
    Abstract: An apparatus for stacking and retaining goods such as Christmas trees on a pallet includes a conveyor moving pallets from one end of the conveyor to an opposite end of the conveyor. The conveyor has a stacking section, a clamping section, and an unload section. The stacking section has a stacking bin receiving trees on a pallet positioned within the stacking section, and the clamping section is positioned between the stacking section and the unload section of the conveyor. The clamping sections provides stabilizers for placing a case about the trees and banding reels for wrapping a band about a pallet of trees within the case. The unload section of the conveyor extends from the clamping section and positions a completely stacked and banded pallet of trees thereon while a different pallet is in the clamping section and yet another pallet is in the stacking section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Paul Shatley, Jeffrey Thomas Badger
  • Patent number: 9315357
    Abstract: A cable bundling assembly and a method of operation is provided for bundling cables. The assembly has a vertical conveyor which is mounted to a frame for advancing cables. The conveyor is driven by a drive unit and has an entrance side and an exit side. At least one fastener is provided on the conveyor. When an end of a set of cables are releasably secured to the fastener, the cables advance upwardly on an entrance side of the conveyor and downwardly on an exit side of the conveyor as the conveyor is driven by the drive unit. An operator control configured to activate the drive unit is provided. When the operator control activates the drive unit to advance the conveyor, the cables are advanced along the vertical conveyor on a substantially vertical axis and the cables advance from the entrance side of the vertical conveyor to the exit side of the vertical conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: CHRISTIE LITES ENTERPRISES CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Dan Souwand, Ray Finkle
  • Publication number: 20100186606
    Abstract: RFID tags pre-installed on bale wrap segments provide location information for a specific area of the bale wrap. RFID tag readers located on the cotton harvester provide signals for use by the module wrapping apparatus for initiating a cutting or separating operation, once a module has been wrapped, and for warning an operator of a situation where the wrapping function has not proceeded in an orderly fashion after a signal for starting the wrapping function has been received. A wrapped module carries the pre-installed RFID tags which are readable by RFID readers carried by module handlers in the field and/or at the gin input which identify the modules and establish a position to which the module may be automatically oriented so that an ideal module wrap cutting location is easily calculated. The RFID tag reading taken in the field or at the gin thus senses the number on the tag as well as the location of the tag, and the module identification is input to an electronic database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: James Thomas Noonan, Donald Lee Goodrich, Jesse Dru Haecker, Jerry Bob Hall, Mark Alan Cracraft, Earl Franklin Canfield
  • Publication number: 20090107349
    Abstract: RFID tags pre-installed on bale wrap segments provide location information for a specific area of the bale wrap. RFID tag readers located on the cotton harvester provide signals for use by the module wrapping apparatus for initiating a cutting or separating operation, once a module has been wrapped, and for warning an operator of a situation where the wrapping function has not proceeded in an orderly fashion after a signal for starting the wrapping function has been received. A wrapped module carries the pre-installed RFID tags which are readable by RFID readers carried by module handlers in the field and/or at the gin input which identify the modules and establish a position to which the module may be automatically oriented so that an ideal module wrap cutting location is easily calculated. The RFID tag reading taken in the field or at the gin thus senses the number on the tag as well as the location of the tag, and the module identification is input to an electronic database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: James Thomas Noonan, Donald Lee Goodrich, Jesse Dru Haecker, Jerry Bob Hall, Mark Alan Cracraft, Earl Franklin Canfield
  • Patent number: 7322168
    Abstract: A dual mode strapper for strapping an article with a strap-forming mechanism is capable of selectively operating in a first mode to pre-form an endless pre-formed strap of a predetermined length at least slightly greater than an initial perimeter of the article to be strapped, and in a second mode to apply strapping material directly to the article to be strapped and thereafter form the strapping material into an endless directly applied strap around the article. The strapper may also include a pre-formed strap holding area adjacent the strap-forming mechanism that extends at least partially around an opening in which the article is received. When the strapper is operating in the first mode, the pre-formed strap holding area receives the pre-formed strap and maintains it in spaced-apart relation from the article before dispensing it from the holding area onto the article to be strapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Cranston Diversified Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert E. Cranston, III, Montgomery Scott Cranston
  • Patent number: 7121195
    Abstract: An apparatus for selectively driving a pivotable knotter includes a rack, a pinion in driving communication with the rack, a knotter drive gear connected to the knotter and a linear actuator. The linear actuator is connected to the knotter and pivots the knotter about a pivot axis. Upon pivot, the knotter drive gear is engaged with the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Bart Daniel, Scott Shepard, Glenn Ellison
  • Patent number: 6705214
    Abstract: A tilt out head for a bulk material baler that includes a bracket for holding a baling wire feed drive, including an electro servo motor and drive wheels, a baling wire knotter including tying cylinders and an electro servo motor and optionally other equipment such as a cutter, a gripper, and tensioning pins. The tilt out bracket of the present invention pivots at its lower extremity so that the equipment on the bracket may rotate outwards and down away from a baler carriage to a stopped position that exposes all of the parts for ease of repair and maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Timothy Stamps
  • Patent number: 6688084
    Abstract: A machine and method for applying reinforcing strapping to bulk boxes. The machine includes a plurality of strapping head assemblies arranged in series, with each adapted to apply a strap in encircling relationship to a box at a predetermined location on the box. As the box advances through successive strapping head assemblies, straps are applied in predetermined spaced relationship on the box, until the desired number of straps have been applied. The number, spacing and tension of the straps may be quickly and easily adjusted. In an embodiment of the invention, the strapping head assemblies are arranged in pairs in individual modules. A recovery strapping head assembly is provided just prior to exit from the machine to apply any strapping missed by a preceding strapping head assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventor: Eric Yarbrough
  • Patent number: 6574941
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and machine for banding groups of bank notes in which a web is projected towards a banding station by a pair of motor-driven rollers, until the end of the web reaches a gripper unit which is mobile, driven by a support and drive device, which draws the web along a closed path defined by a plurality of guide pins until it reaches a final position which coincides with the starting position; upon completion of the feed stage the guide pins move to a position in which they are no longer in contact with the web, which is recovered by the rollers so that the web forms a loop around the group; a cutting device and a sealing device complete the banding stage by cutting and securing a band around the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Currency Systems International
    Inventor: Armando Neri
  • Patent number: 6354197
    Abstract: A device to remove coils of rolled stock from a corresponding coiling machine located downstream of a rolling train is disclosed. The coiling machine includes a mandrel mounted to be rotatable around an axis of rotation. The device includes a coil remover and an actuator. The coil remover is associated with the coiling machine and is movable in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation between a first inactive position, in which the device to remove coils is arranged outside the space occupied by the coiling machine, and a first working position, in which the coil remover cooperates with the coil of rolled stock formed by the coiling machine. The actuator is suitable to move the coil remover between the first inactive position and the first working position and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bordignon, Andrea De Luca, Alfredo Poloni
  • Publication number: 20020005026
    Abstract: A stack of bank notes with substantially parallelepiped shape and a defined stacking axis is formed by a forming machine and fed by a gripper to a banding unit equipped with a part which receives and grips each stack, which operates in conjunction with a banding machine for the application of a pair of first retaining bands, each wrapped around the stack at its opposite ends and at least one second retaining band which is wrapped around the stack in such a way that it is in contact with two transversal surfaces and two lateral surfaces, so that portions of the first bands and second band overlap one another on each of the two opposite transversal surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventor: Armando Neri
  • Patent number: 6308617
    Abstract: Device for binding roasts, sausages and the like, comprising a vertical rod having a clamp and a threaded rod with a control knob for fixing the vertical rod to the table, wherein: a concave element, suitable for containing the “roasts” to be bound by the elastic rings, is fixed on the top of the vertical rod; below being provided a parallel rod iron having an invitation bending; below said element and relative rod iron being provided a device carrying the elastic rings, i.e. three rod irons forming together a bracket, arranged two in the upper part and one in the lower, between said rod irons being provided a fourth rod iron, as an independent spring, for maintaining tidy said elastic rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Inventor: Giuseppe Mignone
  • Patent number: 6305277
    Abstract: A coil handling system, and a method of operating the same, comprises an indexer assembly having a pair of rotatable spindles mounted thereon for supporting a coil of material upon which binding straps are to be placed at predetermined circumferential positions by a strap binding assembly when the rotatable spindles index the coil of material to the predetermined circumferential positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Stanislaw Witczak, Bobby L. Goin
  • Patent number: 6209449
    Abstract: Two per se known cross-strapping devices (10, 11) to which packages or bundles (1, 2 . . . 5) to be strapped are supplied in a conveying direction (F) in which one package or bundle at a time is positioned and crosswise strapped and out of which strapped packages or bundles are conveyed in the same conveying direction (F), are arranged in direct succession and are operated as a “tandem” by supplying two packages or bundles (1, 2), one to each one of the devices, by simultaneously strapping them and by conveying them away again simultaneously. For this purpose, a mutual control mode is necessary in which mutual control mode, in the two devices conveying steps (b) are carried out alternating with strapping steps (a) whereby the conveying stroke (2h) of the conveying steps is twice as long as when operating one only device. Compared to a single cross-strapping device, the arrangement has an increased performance and requires a minimal amount of additional space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Ferag Verpakkingstechniek B.V.
    Inventors: Marcel Otto, Robert Amse
  • Patent number: 5921174
    Abstract: A device for placement of bale ties to effect repair of cotton bales which have been damaged as a result of bale tie failure, includes a base frame structure and a pair of compression platens provided with elongated, generally longitudinally extending bale contacting and compressing surfaces. The platens are mounted on the structure for relative intraplanar movement toward and away from one another, with the compression surfaces disposed in substantial parallelism. The platens are positioned for compressing a damaged cotton bale therebetween as the platens move toward one another. The compression surfaces of the platens have a width which is sufficiently small to compress a damaged cotton bale only in close proximity to a position where a single replacement bale tie is to be placed. A drive mechanism is coupled to the platens for moving the latter relatively toward one another to effect bale compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture
    Inventor: William S. Anthony
  • Patent number: 5471919
    Abstract: Automatic baling press including a plurality of vertical cases 12, intermittently rotating in carousel fashion, with continuous feed device 5 and automatic binding device 18. The cases 12 are open on the top and bottom and rotate by grazing an underlying horizontal fixed plane 6. The fixed plane or plate is provided with an aperture 21 in the pressing region. A cylinder 10 having a vertical axis is provided whose head 11 is intended to fit precisely into the case 12. The pressing station is provided with a horizontal prismatic caisson 7 with an aperture 20 equal and juxtaposed to the aperture 21 of the plane 6. The caisson has a head 15 which is axially movable. A gate 16 is transversely movable to delimit a pressing chamber 24. The caisson has a mouth for the unloading of the bales and is provided with automatic binding means 8 which are fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Dabizzi Valerio & C. S.n.C.
    Inventor: Valerio Dabizzi
  • Patent number: 5415087
    Abstract: A vehicle supports a first roller conveyor having stop members at opposite sides of the vehicle mounted for pivotal movement between the rollers of the first conveyor to assist in stacking ties on the first conveyor from either side of the vehicle. The first conveyor feeds stacks of ties into a horizontal compression means and a vertical compression and banding means for banding stacks of ties. A second roller conveyor feeds banded stacks of ties away from the banding means. Dump arms at opposite sides of the vehicle are mounted for pivotal movement between the rollers of the second conveyor to dump banded stacks of ties to either side of the vehicle. Hydraulic motors drive the conveyors, and a sensor is provided adjacent the second conveyor to sense the position of a stack of ties, the operation of the hydraulic motors being responsive to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Norfolk Southern Railway Co.
    Inventors: Gerard J. Sniffen, Jr., John H. Blanchfield, Kenneth D. Roberts, Randy L. Barnhardt
  • Patent number: 5400706
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Signode Corporation
    Inventors: Allison D. Tipton, Margaret Fialko, Brian H. Hamlin, Ray A. Yeackley
  • Patent number: 5239919
    Abstract: A baler for recyclable materials and any other materials. The baler includes a power unit. An operator console on a deck at a front of a hopper, which provides for operator observation and operation through a high tech control system. Material is fed into the hopper, such as by a conveyor. A compression chamber under the hopper and a bale chamber is at a forward end of the baler for baling of the materials and subsequent discharge by an ejection ram across a bale run-out table for later disposition. A control system provides the capability of automatic control for the baler, as well as diagnostic assistance when necessary. The baler is also the primary building block for a completely automated municipal recycling facility (MRF). The baler can bale such materials as corrugated cardboard, news print, magazines, computer paper, flattened cans, round cans, plastic bottles, scrap aluminum, scrap copper, aluminum radiators, as well as any other miscellaneous materials required for baling on a real time basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Harris Waste Management Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Maki, Forrest Wildes, Chris A. Jefferson
  • Patent number: 5027700
    Abstract: A machine forms pairs of elongated articles, bundles the pairs, and then stacks the bundles. A receiver and inverter function together to hold one of the articles in place and then invert a second article onto the first article to form an article pair. A number of the article pairs, typically about five pairs, are stacked on a vertical lift that controllably moves downwardly as additional pairs are added. An optical sensor senses the position of the top of the topmost pair, and controls the position of the lift so that the measured top is at a preselected position that permits yet another pair to be added to the bundle. After the bundle is formed, it is pushed onto a conveyor where a cradle turns the bundle sideways through 90 degrees. At an intermediate point of the conveyor, a retractable holding stop halts the movement of the bundle to permit a banding machine to band the bundle together with one or more straps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Western Metal, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Tschesche
  • Patent number: 5007337
    Abstract: A horizontal waste material baling machine has a charging passage which leads to a compressing chamber of generally parallelopiped configuration and in which a charging plunger is reciprocably moveable for pushing waste material into the compressing chamber and compressing it into a bale. A discharge passage leads from the compressing chamber at right angles to the charging passage, and an ejection plunger is advanceable through the chamber and the discharge passage to eject the baled waste material. To ease the ejection of an oversize bale, the discharge passage wall adjacent the exit end of the charging passage is a vertically oriented planar surface of a structure that is moveable by a linear motor, such as a hydraulic cylinder, from a normal operative position at which the vertical planar surface and the opposite sidewall of the discharge passage determine the exit width to a position at which the planar surface is displaced by an amount it is desired to increase the exit width of the discharge passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Mosley Machinery Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Horace R. Newsom
  • Patent number: 5001974
    Abstract: A hay bale recompacting system comprises an elongated compression chamber having a generally rectangular cross-section defined by top, bottom, and end walls, an inlet end and an outlet end, an inlet opening at the inlet end in one side of the chamber, an outlet at the outlet end in the other side of the chamber, a ram at the inlet end of the chamber for compressing bales therein, an indexing apparatus for weighing a charge to be introduced into the compressor, a ram for moving a selected amount of a bale into the chamber, a strapping chamber at the outlet disposed at right angle to the compression chamber for receiving compressed bales, an extruder ram for extruding bales from the compression chamber into and from the strapping chamber, and strapping units associated with the strapping chamber for strapping bales in the strapping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: A.C.X., Inc.
    Inventor: John M. Gombos
  • Patent number: 4977827
    Abstract: A signature handling system is provided to form and handle stacks of signatures. The signature handling system includes a stacker which receives signatures and forms stacks of signatures. A plurality of containers have side-by-side cells to hold the stacks of signatures. A conveyor is provided to sequentially move the containers to the stacker. The stacker includes a loader which loads the signatures into cells of the containers. The loader may be extendable through open sides of cells of the containers to move stacks of signatures downwardly into the cells of the containers through open upper end portions of the cells. The containers may be provided with doors which are movable between an open condition and a closed condition. When the doors are in the closed condition, they at least partially block open sides of the cells to retain stacks of signatures in the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: AM International Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohanijit S. Chandhoke, Robert A. Bryson, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4807350
    Abstract: Method and an apparatus for binding coils, for example, of sheet steel, which enable the whole process, from the formation of the coils to the completion of the ready-to-be-shipped bound coils, to be automated. Provision is made so that the strips, produced in a slitting line for example, in each case are coiled in coaxially aligned groups and, while their free severed ends in each case are held down, they are collected. Each collected group of coils, while retaining the coaxial alignment and the holding down of the severed ends, are moved into a transfer position, from which the coils, while the respective severed end continues to be held down, are isolated cyclically and transferred into an operating cycle passing through a first and a second binding position as well as a removal position, one or several additional groups of coils being collected while the coils are being worked off cyclically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Metallverarbeitung Breyell-Dinslaken GmbH
    Inventor: Friederich Hasenkamp
  • Patent number: 4783905
    Abstract: Method and an apparatus for binding coils, for example, of sheet steel, which enable the whole process, from the formation of the coils to the completion of the ready-to-be-shipped bound coils, to be automated. Provision is made so that the strips, produced in a slitting line for example, in each case are coiled in coaxially aligned groups and, while their free severed ends in each case are held down they, are collected. Each collected group of coils, while retaining the coaixal alignment and the holding down of the severed ends, are moved into a transfer position, from which the coils, while the respective severed end continues to be held down, are isolated cyclically and transferred into an operating cycle passing through a first and a second binding position as well as a removal position, one or several additional groups of coils being collected while the coils are being worked off cyclically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Metallverarbeitung Breyell-Dinslaken GmbH
    Inventor: Friederich Hasenkamp
  • Patent number: 4697510
    Abstract: A bale binding machine for waste material has a bale encircling guide track for a band to bind the bale wherein the bottom portion of the guide track under the bale is provided with a pair of deflectors to intercept contaminating liquids and solids falling from the bale and prevent contamination of the guide track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1987
    Assignee: Cranston Machinery Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Albert E. Cranston, III, Mark L. Kudlicka
  • Patent number: 4658719
    Abstract: A waste baling machine having a baling or compression chamber of generally parallelopiped configuration is provided with a charging passage leading thereto with the head of a charging ram reciprocable in the passage and normally forming, in one position, a wall of the chamber. A discharge passage leads from the chamber at right angles to the charging passage and the head of a discharge ram, which when retracted forms a wall of the chamber, is advancable through the chamber and the discharge passage to eject waste material compressed in the chamber by the charging ram, i.e. a bale. If the bale is oversize and protrudes back into the charging passage, a portion of the wall of the discharge passage which forms a part of the charging passage is moved to enlarge the discharge passage sufficiently to permit ejection of the oversize bale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: Harris Press and Shear, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry L. Jackson, Johnny B. Outen
  • Patent number: 4533033
    Abstract: A mechanism for rotating about a vertical axis generally flat-bottomed objects which are moving along the working surface of a conveyor system, the mechanism including at least three rollers which are rotatable about horizontal axes and which are oriented so as to be tangent to the circumference of a circle which is concentric with the vertical axis, a support frame for moving the rollers into an active positioning above the working surface of the conveyor system and downwardly to an inactive positioning therebelow, and a belt drive system for rotating all of the rollers in the same direction with respect to the circumference of the circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Metaverpa B.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus F. S. M. van Wegen
  • Patent number: 4476779
    Abstract: There is disclosed a compression bundling apparatus which can be used to compression pack or bundle such materials as waste paper, hair, cotton, plastics, crude rubber, city rubbish and the like. The apparatus can be used for lateral and vertical binding with polypropylene plastic bands. The apparatus has two main sections, the compression section and the bundling section. The two sections are connected by a guide space in which the compressed material is conveyed to the bundler where it is then bound by vertical and, if desired, lateral bands to form the bundle. There is means to discharge the banded bundle or to discharge the compressed bundle prior to banding. The vertical banding is accomplished by the cooperation of a plurality of band guides external to the compression chamber and movable into the bundling chamber which has a movable bundler for causing the bands to bind the compressed block into a bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Tezuka Kosan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hasebe, Teigo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4419928
    Abstract: A material handling apparatus has a first operational mode for bundling elongated elements having round cross-sectional profiles, and a second operational mode for stacking elongated elements having shaped flat-sided cross-sectional profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Kenneth L. Klusmier
  • Patent number: 4401021
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a stacker tyer for stacking newspapers received in a shingled stream from a printing press. A single centrally located stacker mechanism is flanked by a pair of compensators and outside of the compensators is a pair of tyers. Stacks are built in the stacker and moved laterally first to a compensator and then to a tying mechanism. Outside the tying mechanism is located a pair of delivery mechanisms which deliver the tied stack for further processing. The stacker is able to form either short stacks (bundles) or tall stacks (logs). The tyers are able to tie either a single strap around the midline of a stack or a pair of parallel straps offset to opposite sides of the middle of a stack using a single tie head. Moreover, the tyers are able to tie either bundles or logs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: Harry C. Noll, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4398455
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a stacker tyer for stacking newspapers received in a shingled stream from a printing press. A single centrally located stacker mechanism is flanked by a pair of compensators and outside of the compensators is a pair of tyers. Stacks are built in the stacker and moved laterally first to a compensator and then to a tying mechanism. Outside the tying mechanism are located a pair of delivery mechanisms which deliver the tied stack for further processing. The stacker is able to form either short stacks (bundles) or tall stacks (logs). In the case of bundles, the bundles may be either compensated or uncompensated; compensated logs are not built.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: Richard J. Merwarth
  • Patent number: 4397229
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a stacker tyer for stacking newspapers received in a shingled stream from a printing press. A single centrally located stacker mechanism is flanked by a pair of compensators and outside of the compensators is a pair of tyers. Stacks are built in the stacker and moved laterally first to a compensator and then to a tying mechanism. A shuttle mechanism is used to move the completed stacks from the stacker to one or the other of the compensators and from there to the adjacent tyer. The shuttle mechanism supports the leading and trailing edges of each stack as it is moved, and the back side and bottom of each stack is supported by fixed bottom supports and back supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Merwarth, Joseph P. McGinnis
  • Patent number: 4369088
    Abstract: This invention discloses an apparatus for binding in cross shape an article such as a pack of bank notes with an elongate binding material such as a tape in a binding position. First, the article arranged in a first direction is pushed in the binding position and the article is then bound with the binding material. The trailing end of the binding material is cut and adhered to an adjacent surface of the binding material. When the first binding operation is completed, the bound article is removed from the binding position, being turned through 90 degrees in a manner to be arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The article thus returns to the initial position. The article is pushed again in the binding position. Second binding is performed, accomplishing binding in cross shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1983
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohba, Shigeo Horino
  • Patent number: 4312266
    Abstract: An object is deposited at a strapping station on a high-speed, rapidly accelerating conveyor having a high-friction conveying surface. The object is raised off the high-friction surface by spaced tables having low-friction surfaces. Spaced, vertically downwardly extending bars engage opposite halves of opposite sides of the object and simultaneously move those halves transversely so as to rotate the object ninety degrees on the low-friction tables. A first strap is placed around the object before it is rotated; a second strap is placed around the object after it is rotated ninety degrees; then the conveyor accelerates the cross-strapped object rapidly out of the strapping station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Assignee: Ovalstrapping, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Pasic
  • Patent number: 4301720
    Abstract: A machine for tying a coil of wire with ties comprises a substantially flat support having at least one cutout, wherein the coil and the flat support are movable with respect to each other to place a portion of the coil into the cutout. A clamp is provided in the region between the closed end of the cutout and the adjacent end face of the coil for gripping one end of the tie at a fixed point. A tie guide rotatably mounted on the flat support defines a path about the cutout and carries an element for gripping a point of the tie adjacent the fixed point so that during rotation of the tie guide the tie is wound about the portion of the coil in the cutout. A cutter arranged in the region between the closed end of the cutout and the end face of the coil serves to cut the tie after being wound about the portion of the coil, whereafter the ends of the tie are twisted by twisting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1981
    Assignee: Arbed Societe Anonyme
    Inventor: Hubert Elineau
  • Patent number: 4262587
    Abstract: A conveyor in combination with a strapper for strapping objects on the conveyor automatically as the conveyor is automatically stopped in many pre-selected places.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Inventor: B. Carson Russell
  • Patent number: 4240340
    Abstract: A pack comprising a plurality of superposed layers of unit loads and at least one strap encircling said plurality of superposed layers. The bottom layer of the pack has formed therein at least one elongated free space or channel extending in a direction parallel to the axis of the loop of said at least one strap and capable of accommodating the arms of the fork of a lift truck. The strap or straps have a low tension, but when the arms of the lift truck fork are upwardly engaged into the free spaces, the straps are tightened and firmly hold the load which can therefore be handled safely. The straps slacken when the pack is deposited on top of another pack, thereby allowing the upper pack to chocke itself onto the lower pack and thereby allowing to form columns of stacked packs with a greater number of packs and a higher degree of safety than with hitherto known packs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1980
    Assignee: LOGISAC Groupement d'Interet Economique Regi par l'Ordonnance
    Inventor: Michel Roy
  • Patent number: 4222323
    Abstract: An automotive tire bundling machine having a support framework or base which supports a pair of vertically spaced tire support members. A stack of tires are placed between the tire support members against guide rods on one of the tire support members. The other tire support member is moveable toward and away from the one tire support member for compressing the stack of tires. A strap feeding means position a strap about the peripheral edges of the stack of tires and is cooperative with a strap clinching device to tension the strap, secure the strap and cut off the excess strap material. The stack of tires is rotatable with the tire support members to facilitate the placement of additional straps about the stack of tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: The B. F. Goodrich Company
    Inventor: Troy E. Martindale
  • Patent number: 3965811
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying objects to be bound to an automatic band-binding means in packing boxes or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: Motosuke Umezu
    Inventor: Shinroku Mae
  • Patent number: 3955491
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Assignee: Signode Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. McMahon
  • Patent number: 3948021
    Abstract: In a cotton packaging system including a press section, transfer section, strapping section, bagging section and shrink section in longitudinal alignment, a cotton bale is formed by successive compression of overlapping cotton layers and is thereafter tied and bagged. The press section includes a vertically movable lower platen and stationary upper platens each presenting transient compression and conveyor surfaces that are oscillated during bale formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Cotton Incorporated
    Inventors: George S. Buck, Jr., Roger Russell