Patent ID: 7596928
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: B26D,B65B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A bag clip cutting mechanism, comprising: a guide having a guide track defining a travel path for supporting a strip of clips for sequential delivery along the travel path, each clip having a bag receiving passage communicating with an internal aperture for receiving a bag neck; a pair of coacting cutting edges extendable across the travel path and supported for coaction toward and away from one another to sever a clip from the strip of clips; a drive member including a cam cut-off plate pivotally supported by the guide and having a drive surface configured to drive one of the cutting edges toward another of the cutting edges configured to move the pair of cutting edges together to sever the clip from the strip of clips; a lever provided proximate the open mouth of a clip and configured to actuate cutting of the clip when a bag neck engages the lever during delivery through the bag receiving passage into the clip; and a mechanical linkage communicating with the lever and the drive member and configured to actuate the drive member responsive to the bag neck engaging the lever.