US 12,214,915 B2
Strapping device having a device for rotating a package
Friedhelm Schulz, Wipperfürth (DE)
Assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
Appl. No. 17/906,766
Filed by Signode Industrial Group LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/020853
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/194715, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 107 945.1 (DE), filed on Mar. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0356867 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B65B 13/18 (2006.01); B65B 13/06 (2006.01); B65B 13/20 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 13/187 (2013.01) [B65B 13/06 (2013.01); B65B 13/20 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A strapping device comprising:
an upper channel portion;
a first side channel portion;
a second side channel portion;
a packing table comprising:
a stationary first portion comprising a first lower channel portion,
a stationary second portion comprising a second lower channel portion, and
a rotatable portion positioned between the first stationary portion and the second stationary portion and comprising a third lower channel portion and a fourth lower channel portion that extends transversely to the third lower channel portion, wherein the third lower channel portion is positioned in a first plane, wherein part of the fourth lower channel portion is positioned in a second plane above the first plane, wherein the rotatable portion is configured to rotate between:
(i) a first strapping position in which the third lower channel portion extends between the first lower channel portion and the second lower channel portion such that the upper channel portion, the first side channel portion, the second side channel portion, the first lower channel portion, the second lower channel portion, and the third lower channel portion define a first strap channel, and
(ii) a different second strapping position in which the fourth lower channel portion extends between the first lower channel portion and the second lower channel portion such that the upper channel portion, the first side channel portion, the second side channel portion, the first lower channel portion, the second lower channel portion, and the fourth lower channel portion define a second strap channel; and
a feeding device configured to: (a) when the rotatable portion is in the first strapping position, feed strap from a supply into and around the first strap channel; and (b) when the rotatable portion is in the second strapping position, feed the strap from the supply into and around the second strap channel.