Abstract: A banding machine for feeding sleeves of banding material onto bottle necks and the like when the sleeves are of tough material requiring use of a sharp cutting edge. The mandrel along which the tubular banding material is fed is formed to provide a radially outwardly opening groove at which the cutter cuts the material. The groove is closed when the mandrel and material are moved relatively.
Abstract: A machine for placing a band of shrinkable plastic film over one or more objects to be banded, comprising:1. means for dispensing shrinkable flattened plastic tubing,2. means for opening a section of said flattened tubing and for reflattening the opened tubing in a plane perpendicular to its initial plane,3. means for feeding a preselected length of said reflattened tubing into position for being cut, and4. means for cutting said preselected length of reflattened tubing into a band, and the improvement comprising:5.