Can packaging method and apparatus

Abstract

Abstract AN APPARATUS AND A PROCESS FOR INSURING THAT THE OPENENDED CANS THAT ARE LOADED ONTO A PALLET IN LAYERS WITHIN A PALLETIZER MAINTAIN THEIR PROPER POSITION THEREON AS THE LOADED PALLET IS MOVED TO A STRAPPING STATION WHERE THE CANS ARE MOVED SECURELY AFFIXED IN PLACE. TO INSURE THAT THE CANS WILL NOT MOVE OUT OF ALIGNMENT DURING MOVEMENT OF THE LOADED PALLET BETWEEN THE PALLETIZER AND THE FINAL STRAPPING STATION, THE STACKS OF CANS ARE STRAPPED TO THE PALLET WITHIN THE PALLETIZER. BEFORE THE PALLET IS LOADED IN THE PALLETIZER, A STRAP IS DIRECTED UNDER THE PALLET INTO A CLAMPING APPARATUS WHICH WILL HOLD THE STRAP IN POSITION RELATIVE TO THE PALLET AS THE PALLET IS BEING LOADED WITH LAYERS OF CANS. AFTER THE STRAP IS SO POSITIONED, THE STRAP FEEDER OR CHUTE USED TO DIRECT THE STRAP UNDER THE PALLET INTO A HOLDING MECHANISM IS WITHDRAWN TO PERMIT THE LOADED PALLET TO BE RETRACTED AND ACCEPT ADDITIONAL LAYERS OF CANS, DURING WHICH TIME, STRAP IS PAYED OUT FROM A SUPPLY SOURCE. THE STRAP IS THEN DISPOSED COMPLETELY AROUND THE LOADED PALLET, AFTER WHICH IT IS TENSIONED AND SECURED IN POSITION.

Inventors

• 👤 John W King
• 👤 John D Sweeney

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