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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1984
Kozo Watanabe, Kurobe, JP;
Yoshida Kogyo K. K., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Elongate products such as slide fasteners discharged from a finishing station are successively received and stored in at least one tray assembly including a plurality of tray members spaced longitudinally thereof. The products are then transported on endless conveyors to a binding station, during which time the products are embraced by at least one binding strip. The binding strip is welded by a welder-cutter at opposite ends of such embraced portion to provide a band encircling the elongate products and simultaneously the band is severed by the welder-cutter at the welded portion, whereby the elongate products are tied together into a bundle. The tray assembly includes tray members are spaced apart from each other to receive the binding strip between adjacent tray members. Product specifications for each group of the elongate products are automatically printed on the binding strip while the products are received and stored in the tray assembly.