US 12,479,613 B2
Binding facility, wire feeding mechanism and binding machine
Terufumi Hamano, Tokyo (JP); Kenichi Arai, Tokyo (JP); Yousei Nodaguchi, Tokyo (JP); and Shigeki Shindou, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Max Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by MAX CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/493,537.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-168577 (JP), filed on Oct. 5, 2020; application No. 2020-168578 (JP), filed on Oct. 5, 2020; application No. 2021-025686 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 2021; and application No. 2021-093025 (JP), filed on Jun. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0106067 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. B65B 13/04 (2006.01); B65B 13/18 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 13/04 (2013.01) [B65B 13/186 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A binding facility comprising:
a binding mechanism configured to bind a binding target with a plurality of wires, the binding mechanism including:
a wire feeding part which includes a pair of feeding gears configured to sandwich and simultaneously feed the plurality of wires and which is configured to feed the plurality of wires in a forward direction and a reverse direction,
a wire guide configured to guide the plurality of wires that are fed to the wire feeding part,
a curl forming part configured to form a path along which the plurality of wires fed by the wire feeding part is to be wound around the binding target,
a cutting part configured to cut the plurality of wires wound on the binding target,
a binding part configured to twist the plurality of wires wound on the binding target, and
a feeding motor configured to drive the feeding gears;
a reel accommodation part in which a plurality of reels, each having one wire wound thereon, are accommodated; and
a wire feeding mechanism spaced from the binding mechanism and the reel accommodation part, the wire feeding mechanism is configured to feed each wire from the plurality of reels accommodated in the reel accommodation part to the binding mechanism,
wherein the wire feeding mechanism includes a wire pullout mechanism configured to feed the wires and provided between the binding mechanism and the reel accommodation part, and
wherein the wire pullout mechanism has a pullout roller configured to pull the wires fed to the binding mechanism, and a drive part configured to move the pullout roller.