US 12,441,559 B2
Feeding device for guiding and providing one-piece ties
Oliver Dohrmann, Uetersen (DE); and Carsten Scheel, Uetersen (DE)
Assigned to HellermannTyton GmbH, Tornesch (DE)
Filed by HELLERMANNTYTON GmbH, Tornesch (DE)
Filed on Dec. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/528,430.
Claims priority of application No. 202022106860.7 (DE), filed on Dec. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0190668 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. B65G 51/08 (2006.01); B65G 17/32 (2006.01); B65G 51/18 (2006.01); B65G 51/42 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 51/08 (2013.01) [B65G 17/323 (2013.01); B65G 51/18 (2013.01); B65G 51/42 (2013.01); B65G 2203/042 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A feeding device for guiding and supplying one-piece ties comprising:
a hose unit designed to guide a respective one-piece tie along the hose unit in a hose inner via an air flow toward an outlet end of the hose unit and subsequently in an outlet direction out of the outlet end of the hose unit to a funnel unit; and
the funnel unit arranged at the outlet end of the hose unit and on the hose unit, the funnel unit designed to receive the respective one-piece tie guided through the hose unit,
wherein the hose unit has a bend in an end region encompassing the outlet end, and
wherein the funnel unit has a funnel element arranged rotatably about an axis of rotation running along the outlet direction via a drive element of the funnel unit relative to the outlet end of the hose unit, the funnel element includes a slit at the end region remote from the outlet end of the hose unit in the outlet direction, and the slit is formed to receive a band of the respective one-piece tie.