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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Gea Food Solutions Weert B.v., RV Weert, NL;
Inventor:
Bruno Gerfried Baumeister, Aachen, DE;
Assignee:
GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS WEERT B.V., RV Weert, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 65/00 (2006.01); B65B 9/20 (2012.01); B65B 9/207 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 66/4312 (2013.01); B29C 66/344 (2013.01); B29C 66/849 (2013.01); B65B 9/2049 (2013.01); B65B 9/207 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stretching unit for clamping and stretching a tubular film in a flow-wrapper, the stretching unit includes: a gripping head; two coupling rods attached to a moving means; two gripping fingers, each of the gripping fingers is attached to the gripping head and to one of the coupling rods; the gripping fingers are moved from a remote position to a clamping position by a relative linear movement between the gripping head and the moving means parallel to a center axis of the moving means.