Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.

Tom A Budd

Eric A Johnson, Iii

Melvin E Moore

In a package strapping machine an improved means for tightening the strap extending from a strap supply about a package to be strapped including feed means, retract means, linearly reciprocating tension means and a secondary gripper in which the tension means is outside of the path of the strap between the feed means and the retract means and in which the tension means reciprocates in a direction approximately normal to the usual path of the strap traveling through the tension means.

Strap tensioning device

An improved floating heat tongue and mounting device for use in conjunction with a package strapping device which forms a heat seal in overlapping portions of a plastic strap wrapped about a package. A floatable metal heat tongue mounted for vertical floating movement within a holder which is adapted to deliver heat to the heat tongue.

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Crawfordsville, IN, United States of America

Tom A Budd