Nichiro Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Yoshiaki Kasuga

Minoru Aoki

Fukumatsu Matsushita

A band feeding and tightening apparatus for a band strapping machine comprises a main shaft rotatably placed at a lateral position of a serial connection of a motor and a reduction gear device; a high speed revolution transmitting means to transmit a rotational force at the high speed side of the reduction gear device to the main shaft; a low speed revolution transmitting means to transmit a rotational force at the low speed side of the reduction gear to the main shaft through an electromagnetic clutch; a stationary shaft placed in parallel to the main shaft, the stationary shaft rotatably supporting a feed roller and a power transmitting means to transmit a rotational force of the high speed revolution transmitting mean to the feed roller through a friction clutch; and the return roller mounted on the main shaft through a one-way clutch.

Band feeding and tightening apparatus and method of feeding and

A feed roller is usually rotated at a high speed; a return roller is fitted to a return shaft rotated at a low speed through a one-way clutch; a rocker roller driven at a high speed is brought into press-contact with the return roller so that the return roller is rotated at a high speed in accordance with the high speed rotation of the rocker roller thereby performing the primary tightening operation for a band; then, the return roller is engaged with the return shaft by the function of the one-way clutch when the rotational speed of the return roller coincides with that of the return shaft, thereby performing the secondary tightening operation with a strong pulling force. The strapping machine having the above mentioned construction provides noiseless and speedy operations for strapping the band around a package.

Method of feeding and tightening a band in a band strapping machine and

A strapping machine comprises a return roller having a high friction outer peripheral surface and a feed roller having a low friction outer peripheral surface which are contacted with each other under pressure and the return roller is disposed in free condition during the rotation of the feed roller in one direction and when the feeding resistance of the band is increased, the band is slipped on the outer peripheral surface of the feed roller to prevent the feeding of the band and in order to tighten the band around the package, both of the rollers are reversely rotated at a high speed to tighten the band around an object to be packed and then continuously rotated at a low speed to impart high torque to the band for an attainment of further tightening thereof.

Band feeding and tightening apparatus for strapping machine

A strapping machine comprises a roller for reversely rotating by a one way motor to tighten a package with a band, a differential reducing mechanism engaged to a clutch whereby the roller is reversely rotated at high speed before sliding the clutch and is further reversely rotated at low speed and high torque after sliding the clutch and a seal forming shaft starts when a return roller is stopped under a predetermined tension applied by tightening the band. The strapping machine further comprises a cutter anvil to contact the inner surfaces of the bands at the superposed part with a heating element inserted into the superposed part of the bands and a cutter for cutting the band under suitable tension after cooling the heat-sealed bands.

Strapping machine

Automatic band strapping apparatus with a table for supporting an article during banding. An arch frame extends in the form of an upright loop from one side to another of the table. The arch frame has an elongated side wall also in the form of an upright loop in a plane substantially normal to the table. An elongated U-sectioned arch guide made of flexible plastics material such as ultra-high molecular polyethylene has a loop shape following the contour of the arch frame side wall, and one edge surface facing that side wall is opened by means of a groove. Springs press the grooved edge surface of the arch guide against the arch frame side wall thereby defining a band passage through the arch guide which is normally closed. The arch guide is locally separable from the side wall against the urgence of the springs, progressively around the length of the arch frame, providing a moderate draw-out resistance to enable release and withdrawal of band progressively and continuously from the band passage. This maintains continuous tension in the band while it is being wrapped about the article in a straight path without twisting or meandering. The plastics arch guide has sufficient flexibility in a direction normal to the side wall to enable the springs to keep it seated against the side wall despite minor dimensional variations of the parts within manufacturing tolerances. Further, the arch guide is sufficiently flexible in the direction parallel to the side wall that it will remain seated against it, and the band passage thereby kept closed against inadvertent loss of band despite local or overall self-adjusting squirming or sliding movement of the arch guide against the arch frame side wall when in use.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yoshiaki Kasuga