Ranpak Corporation

Stephen Louis Dominak

Alexandra Snijders

Robert C Cheich

Dennis J Wagner

Kevin Park

Steven M Toneff

Raimond P M Demers

Carrie A Schlegel

Thomas Bayt

Johannes Hermanus Wilhelmus Driehuijs

Ronny Hubertus Joseph Hendrix

Hubertus J M Cals

Kevin W Park

Johannes Hermanus Driehuijs

Ronny Hubertus Hendrix

Raimond Pm Demmers

A conversion assembly for a dunnage conversion machine includes both a downstream pair of rotatable members and an upstream pair of rotatable members upstream of the downstream rotatable members. The downstream rotatable members include a pair of gears, and each gear has a plurality of teeth and is rotatable about a respective axis. The gears are positioned so that the teeth of one gear are sequentially interlaced with the teeth of the other gear as the gears rotate. The upstream rotatable members include a pair of feed wheels, and the gears and the feed wheels define a path for a sheet stock material from between the upstream pair of feed wheels to between the downstream pair of gears. The rate at which the sheet stock material is advanced by the feed wheels is the same as the rate at which the sheet stock material is advanced by the gears.

Dunnage conversion machine and method

A supply of stock material for a dunnage conversion machine includes two plies of sheet stock material wound into a roll or fan-folded into a stack. Each ply has disposed on a corresponding leading or trailing end thereof an adhesive layer and a removable release liner covering the adhesive layer. When applied to a leading end of the supply, the adhesive layer is applied to opposing, outwardly-facing surfaces of the respective plies. When a supply of stock material is almost spent, the operator removes the release liners from both plies to expose respective adhesive layers, and then interposes the leading end of a new supply between the plies of the trailing end of the almost-spent supply and presses the layers together to attach the plies of the new supply to respective plies of the almost-spent supply, for conversion into dunnage.

Method of loading a dunnage conversion machine and sheet stock material useful therein

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Brecksville, OH, United States of America

Stephen Louis Dominak