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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patrick R Lancaster, III, Louisville, KY (US);
Yoram Gordon, Louisville, KY (US);
Jeff Harrison, Lagrange, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lantech, Inc., Louisville, KY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B65B / ; B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53399 ; 53441 ; 53556 ; 53587 ; 533893 ;
Abstract
A load of stretch wrap with a sheet of stretch wrap packaging material by feeding a sheet through a stretch wrap dispenser and stretching and dispensing from the dispenser, and providing relative rotation between the dispenser and the load to wrap the stretched sheet around the load. The portion of the sheet is weakened with a sheet weakening device, and sheet is tensioned to break the sheet at the weakened portion.