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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1988
Filed:
May. 13, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edward L Benno, Grayslake, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B65B / ; B65B / ; B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53399 ; 53441 ; 53459 ; 53556 ; 53567 ; 53585 ;
Abstract
A packaging method and machine for placing highly stretched relatively thin elastic plastics tubes from a roll of such tubes about a series of generally rectilinear objects. The method and machine involve three basic mechanism, one is a jaw assembly that opens and closes and tilts up and down to receive and stretch a tube and release the tube about one of the objects, the second is a tube shuttle assembly that delivers a tube to the jaw assembly and retracts into the next tube, and the third is a chain and paddle conveyor that intermittently delivers objects to the jaw assembly and moves the objects from the jaw assembly after a tube has been applied.