Patent ID: 11897650
Assignee: GRONINGER & CO. GMBH
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 5:
6. A method for unpacking an object from an item of packaging, wherein the object on a transportation installation is transported in a transportation direction, wherein the method comprises the following method steps:
folding outwards a packaging portion by means of a method for folding outwards a packaging portion of an item of packaging for an object, wherein the method for folding outwards comprises the following method steps:
raising the object by a lifting installation;
holding a region of the item of packaging that is adjacent to the packaging portion by a first holding installation; and
moving the first holding installation in a direction that points away from the packaging portion so that the packaging portion folds outwards as a projecting packaging portion;

stretching the projecting packaging portion by means of a method for stretching an item of packaging for an object, wherein the method for stretching comprises the following method steps:
holding the projecting packaging portion by a second holding installation, wherein the second holding installation has at least two rollers which are disposed so as to be perpendicular to the transportation direction, wherein the projecting packaging portion is held between the at least two rollers; and
moving the object and/or the holding installation parallel with the transportation direction in order for the object and the holding installation to be moved away from one another;
severing the projecting packaging portion; and
retrieving the object from the item of packaging.