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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2006
Allan J. Bobren, Streamwood, IL (US);
Timothy B. Pearson, Antioch, IL (US);
Lawrence G. Sickels, Spring Grove, IL (US);
Allan J. Bobren, Streamwood, IL (US);
Timothy B. Pearson, Antioch, IL (US);
Lawrence G. Sickels, Spring Grove, IL (US);
Illinois Tool Works, Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Abstract
A package pacer is configured for use with an automatic strapping machine having a strap chute through which strap material is fed and from which strap material is tensioned onto a package. The strapping machine has an in-feed conveyor defining a plane and is configured to automatically move a package into a packaging region bounded by the chute. The pacer includes a frame that is mountable to the strapping machine. A plurality of rollers are mounted to the frame in a stationary plane about coplanar with the in-feed conveyor plane. The rollers extend forwardly of the strapping machine and permit conveyance of the package therealong and onto the in-feed conveyor. A pacing element is movable between a stop position in which the pacer element is out of the in-feed conveyor plane and interferes with movement of the package onto the in-feed conveyor and a feed position in which the pacing element resides about coplanar with the planar stationary rollers and the in-feed conveyor. A drive moves the pacing element between the stop position and the feed position.