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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Andrea Cinotti, Bologna, IT;
Assignee:
Wrapmatic, S.p.A., Bologna, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53134 ; 493226 ; 493357 ; 493926 ;
Abstract
In a device according to the invention, a roll of narrow strip is unwound, fed through a cutting station and severed into discrete lengths which are conveyed forward above the level of the running sheet of wrapping film and at right angles to the direction in which it is run through the machine. The two ends of each discrete strip are picked up by suckers fitted to the projecting ends of a pair of arms which are drawn together through 90.degree., rotating about respective vertical axes, and thus cause the strip to assume a `U` shape before being attached to the wrapping film in such a way as to furnish a carrying handle.