Abstract: The invention relates to a device for accumulating flat material in flexible strip form, the device comprising an accumulator box having a bottom on which the strip accumulates, at least during accumulation stages, between two end walls and between two side walls that extend so as to face edges of the strip. The accumulator device includes at least one of the following means: rollers mounted idle close to the bottom and on which the strip rests during accumulation stages; air-flow means for establishing a flow of air within the box towards the bottom of the accumulator box; vibrator means for vibrating at least one of the side walls; and adjuster means for adjusting spacing between the side walls.

Abstract: The device (100) is destined to receive flanked continuous strips (1, 2) from an arrival line (L), and feed them towards a transversal cutting station (SR). The device (100) comprises: a basin (3), associated to a terminal part of the arrival line (L), destined to enable formation, in each of the strips (1, 2) of a free loop (A1, A2) in a downwards direction; deviator organs (4), at a 45° angle, provided downstream of the basin (3), destined to guide the strips (1, 2) such as to orientate them perpendicularly to the arrival direction, horizontally centered and correctly staggered in height such as to enter the transversal cutting station (SR).

Abstract: The present application provides a yarn accumulator for use with a yarn sausage in a heat setting line. The yarn applicator may include a sled in contact with the yarn sausage and a tensioning device in communication with the sled. The tensioning device applies a variable tension to the sled based upon the length of the yarn sausage. The tensioning device may include a sled pulley in communication with the sled, a ratioed pulley set in communication with the sled pulley, a counterweight pulley in communication with the ratioed pulley set, and a counterweight in communication with the counterweight pulley.

Abstract: In a device for supplying a printing substrate web to an internal transport path of the printing substrate web of a printing device, a device accepts the printing substrate web from the printing substrate web source. A drive unit is provided at an output of the device and draws the printing substrate web from the device. A buffer device having a buffer reservoir is provided at an output of the drive unit. The buffer reservoir has a negative pressure device that generates a negative pressure in a buffer reservoir. The negative pressure acts on the printing substrate web to pull the printing substrate web drawn by the drive unit into the buffer reservoir and thereby tensions the printing substrate web before it is supplied to the internal transport path.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for accumulating flat material in flexible strip form, the device comprising an accumulator box having a bottom on which the strip accumulates, at least during accumulation stages, between two end walls and between two side walls that extend so as to face edges of the strip. The accumulator device includes at least one of the following means: rollers mounted idle close to the bottom and on which the strip rests during accumulation stages; air-flow means for establishing a flow of air within the box towards the bottom of the accumulator box; vibrator means for vibrating at least one of the side walls; and adjuster means for adjusting spacing between the side walls.

Abstract: A modular strap dispenser for a strapping machine comprises includes a mount for rotatably mounting a coiled spool of strap and a feeding mechanism for drawing strap directly from the spool, feeding the strap directly to the strapping machine and retracting and tensioning the strap. The feeding mechanism is driven by a variable speed feed motor controlled by a feed motor controller. The feed motor controller is operatively connected to a strapper control system that controls both the feed motor controller and the strapping head of the strapping machine. The dispenser may include a braking system to control the rotation of the spool. The dispenser also may include an accumulator box configured to accept and store take-up strap generated during strap tensioning. The dispenser may further include a strap guide for guiding the strap from the spool to the feeding mechanism.

Abstract: A release liner staging unit for depositing a release liner onto an adhesive layer. The unit includes an accumulator that creates a buffer between an amount of release liner supplied and an amount needed for covering a layer of adhesive. The tendency of release liner placed within the accumulator to settle allows additional release liner to be introduced, thereby producing a slightly saturated level of release liner in the accumulator. Time delays can be accounted for to reduce the number of times a drive mechanism needs to operate, thereby reducing wear on such componentry. The unit may also form part of a larger release liner application device and adhesive application system.

Abstract: Binding apparatus for binding wire around pulp bales are disclosed including a wire magazine, a wire feeder for feeding and stretching the wire, a guide for guiding the wire from the feeder around the pulp bale, a wire cutter and twister for cutting the wire and twisting together the wire ends and a take-up unit for taking up a loop in the wire obtained upon stretching of the wire around the pulp bale, the take-up unit including a take-up space having a pair of walls separated by a distance adapted to accept the wire but insufficient to accept a double strand of the wire, and the short sides of the take-up space separated by a distance adapted to accept a loop of the wire without being folded and the take-up space at one of the short sides including a wire guide space wider than the wire and formed by grooves in at least one of the walls.

Abstract: A banding packing machine capable of inexpensively detecting the end of a band reel, thereby contributing to a reduction in cost. In a banding packing machine having a back pool box in a packing machine body and serving to feed an unused band (B) stored in the back pool box and a band from a band reel, the rotating speed of a touch roller is detected when a required amount of band is being pulled out of the band reel wherein the band is not left in the band reel if the rotating speed is not changed but the rotation is carried out at an almost constant speed, and the tip portion of the band does not arrive at the predetermined position of a band guide arch. Then, the driving operation of a normal rotating roller is stopped based on the decision signal.

Abstract: A strap reserving control device for a strapping machine is to apply the relative action between a balancing weight unit and a balancing rod respectively fixed at the opposite ends of a rotating shaft, and the functions of sensing by a sensing portion of a sensing switch to control the amount of packaging strap stored in a strap reserving room. The balancing weight unit and the balancing rod is formed with a lever structure therebetween, therefore no tiredness of elasticity or damage may happen to them, able to prolong the service life of the machine, and stably and precisely control the amount of packaging strap stored in the strap reserving room.

Abstract: A rod-actuating strap control device for a strapping machine includes a rod-interacting unit composed of an actuating rod and a weight rod assembled on a rotary member and the relative action produced between the rod-interacting unit and a press rod as well as the balanced rod with cooperation of the sensing function between a sensing switch and the actuating rod to effectively control the length or amount of the packaging strap stored in a strap reserving room. The operation between the actuating rod of rod-interacting unit and the weight rod is based on a lever structure, therefore no tiredness of resilience or damage of a twisting spring may happen to them, able to prolong the service life of the machine and control the length or amount of packaging strap stored in a strap reserving room with great precision and stability.

Abstract: Wire from a wire source is supplied to create a predetermined amount of slack wire in a predetermined configuration and to maintain that slack wire configuration. Some of the slack wire is withdrawn from the configuration and advanced for use in forming an electrical connector. As wire is withdrawn from the slack wire configuration, additional wire is supplied to renew and maintain that configuration. A characteristic of the slack wire configuration is sensed to control the amount wire supplied. In this manner, the mass and rotational effects of unwinding wire from a spool while simultaneously advancing that wire are avoided, thereby avoiding wire slippage and allowing the constituent components of the connector, such as bulges of a twist pin connector, to be more precisely located during fabrication.

Abstract: Wire from a wire source is supplied to create a predetermined amount of slack wire in a predetermined configuration and to maintain that slack wire configuration. Some of the slack wire is withdrawn from the configuration and advanced for use in forming an electrical connector. As wire is withdrawn from the slack wire configuration, additional wire is supplied to renew and maintain that configuration. A characteristic of the slack wire configuration is sensed to control the amount wire supplied. In this manner, the mass and rotational effects of unwinding wire from a spool while simultaneously advancing that wire are avoided, thereby avoiding wire slippage and allowing the constituent components of the connector, such as bulges of a twist pin connector, to be more precisely located during fabrication.

Abstract: A strapping machine having a strap accumulator box with an easy access panel is provided. The strapping machine includes a lever that allows for the quick opening of the easy access panel and the quick clearing of the strapping machine of strap debris and jams. The strapping machine of the present invention further includes a lever for quick release of the access panel. The access panel is spring biased in a first closed position and, upon the clearing of strap debris and jams, the access panel is returned to its first closed position.

Abstract: An accumulator system for foldable sheet-like material. The system includes an accumulator bin having a pair of sidewalls, a pair of end walls, a bottom wall, and an open top. An infeed mechanism conveys the material to the accumulator bin. A chute receives the material from the infeed mechanism and guides the material inside the chute. In a first state, the chute is stationary and the system operates in a steady-state condition with a loop in the material between the infeed mechanism and an outfeed mechanism. In a second state, the outfeed mechanism is shut off and the chute is capable of reciprocating such that the material is guided toward the bottom wall of the bin. The reciprocating motion of the chute causes the material to be folded endwise in alternating fashion.

Abstract: An apparatus for the intermediate storage of a strap to be supplied and delivered discontinuously in a machine is provided with a supply arrangement for the strap; a storage drum, which is disposed downstream thereof and which comprises an inlet for the strap, an ensuing helical storage channel for the storage of the strap, the radial extension of which exceeds its axial extension, which corresponds to the width of the strap, as well as an outlet, which adjoins the storage channel; and a discharge arrangement for the strap, which is disposed downstream of the storage drum.

Abstract: An apparatus (1A) for taking up the slack of a wire harness takes up the slack of a flexible, flat wire harness (4) which is accommodated in a housing (2A) having a second side plate (9) formed in an inclined manner with respect to a first side plate (5), and which is drawn out of the housing (2A). This second side plate (9) is provided in such a manner as to assume a gradual downward gradient from a first opening (7) side toward a second opening (11) side. The wire harness (4) which is inserted through the first opening (7) is partially bonded to the first side plate (5), is once folded back toward the introducing side, i.e., the first opening (7) side, in a state in which the curvature of bending is practically nil. The wire harness (4) is then turned back toward the second opening (11) side in a state of being curved arcuately by the resilient action of the wire harness (4) itself, and is drawn out of the housing (2A) through the second opening (11).

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for storing of a textile material between operating components of spinning mill machines, wherein a first driving device drives an operating component which delivers the material into a storage facility and a second driving device drives another operating component which removes the material from the storage facility. One of the operating components is a high-dynamically reacting component, and the other operating component is a low-dynamically reacting component. The purpose of the invention is to minimize the size of the storage facility and to simultaneously reduce the amount of stored material. This is accomplished in that the quantity of delivered and removed material at any given time is continually measured and a running difference between the two quantities is determined. Dependent upon either a positive or a negative difference from standard, the RPM of the motor (M1) of the driving device for the low-dynamically reacting component (AO1) is controllably adjusted.

Abstract: A band product accumulation unit including a mechanism for controlling the running of a band along a longitudinal direction, a fixed frame, a wrap-around carriage which is moveable on a track between a return position of minimum accumulation length and an out position of maximum accumulation length, wherein movement towards the out position increases a length while movement towards the return position decreases the length, the band being adapted to pass over at least one return member mounted on the wrap-around carriage so as to form at least an out portion and at least a return portion and defined by at least two spaced levels, a plurality of intermediate supporting members arranged along the track, each comprising at least one separating arm extending horizontally on at least one intermediate level disposed between two running levels of the band, each separating arm being fixed to a shaft which is pivotal about a vertical axis with respect to the fixed frame, a mechanism for controling the pivoting of each