Patent ID: 11945613
Assignee: AUTEFA SOLUTIONS GERMANY GMBH
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A compressed bale comprising:
a bale body;
a packaging surrounding and fully enveloping the bale body, wherein the compressed bale is formed from highly compressed, short-cut, textile fibers and has mutually opposite pressing sides and circumferential sides arranged between the pressing sides, wherein the pressing sides were acted on by a pressing device in a pressing direction during the manufacture of the compressed bale and wherein the packaging comprises:
a multipart film packaging comprising a plurality of flexurally elastic packaging films made of plastic and resting on the bale body and comprising a bottom film arranged on one of the pressing sides and in some areas covering adjoining circumferential sides, a top film arranged on another of the pressing sides and in some areas cover adjoining circumferential sides and a ring-shaped, closed cover film on the circumferential sides, the cover film providing an overlap at which the cover film overlaps and covers the top film and the bottom film externally on the circumferential sides in at least some areas; and
a cross strapping comprising:
a first strapping comprising a plurality of parallel endless bands that are laid over the pressing sides of the compressed bale, the plurality of parallel endless bands digging into the bale body on the pressing sides and forming constrictions; and
an additional strapping arranged externally on the film packaging as well as on the plurality of parallel endless bands, the additional strapping comprising: a plurality of additional endless strapping bands which are laid peripherally only over the circumferential sides and cross the plurality of parallel endless bands, wherein at least one of the plurality of additional endless strapping bands is arranged on the overlap.