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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2001
Erwin Muller, Durnten, CH;
Ferag AG, Hinwil, CH;
Abstract
For sequentially strapping stacks of printed products ( ) with a strapping tape ( ), stacks are conveyed to a strapping position pressed together between two presser arms ( and ) and are there strapped in a pressed-together condition. A loop of the strapping tape ( ) positioned around the stack ( ) is tightened, locked and cut-off from a supply roll. In doing so, the tape loop is applied in a zone of the stack face sides outside the presser arms ( and ) and aligned with slot-shaped apertures ( ) in the presser arms ( and ) such that the strapping tape ( ), when it is being tightened, is moved through the apertures ( ) and comes to lie directly on the face sides of the stack. The strapping is advantageous to strap stacks ( ), which have either been previously, or are being simultaneously, enveloped with an enveloping material ( ), whereby the envelope is applied around the stack ( ) and the presser arms ( and ), and the strapping is applied outside of the envelope.