US 12,240,645 B2
Strap-feeding assembly with strap-size-adjustment features
Dimitrios Takidis, Dübendorf (CH); Philipp Buser, Erlinsbach (CH); Christian Benz, Zürich (CH); and Michael Meng, Gipf-Oberfrick (CH)
Assigned to SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
Appl. No. 18/253,139
Filed by Signode Industrial Group LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 1, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/072146
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 16, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/109517, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/166,666, filed on Mar. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,777, filed on Nov. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0002095 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B65B 59/00 (2006.01); B65B 13/06 (2006.01); B65B 13/18 (2006.01); B65B 59/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 59/003 (2019.05) [B65B 13/06 (2013.01); B65B 13/18 (2013.01); B65B 59/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A strap-feeding assembly comprising:
a strap-feeding-assembly frame;
a strap-driving assembly supported by the strap-feeding-assembly frame and comprising a feed wheel and an actuator operably connected to the feed wheel to drive the feed wheel;
a first strap-guiding assembly supported by the strap-feeding-assembly frame and including one or more guide members partially defining a strap channel; and
a second strap-guiding assembly supported by the strap-feeding-assembly frame and comprising:
a housing; and
a counter-roller assembly comprising:
a support mounted to the housing and defining a bore;
a counter roller mounted to the support and rotatable relative to the support; and
a height adjuster comprising a head and a cylindrical body that extends from the head and is received in the bore defined in the support, wherein the height adjuster is operably connected to the counter roller and configured such that rotation of the height adjuster relative to the support causes the counter roller to move from a first position in which a first distance separates the counter roller and the feed wheel to a second position in which a second distance separates the counter roller and the feed wheel, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance, wherein the height adjuster is movable along a first longitudinal axis from a locked position in which the height adjuster is not rotatable from its first position to its second position to an unlocked position in which the height adjuster is rotatable from its first position to its second position.