Patent ID: 9126703
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for wrapping a tubular film around each of a sequence of objects passing sequentially through a wrapping station, the apparatus comprising: a supply of the film adjacent the station; a feed head at the station having a base; a support carried on the base and rotatable relative thereto about a vertical axis; means on the base for pulling the film off the supply and feeding it in a travel direction to the support; a film storer carried on the rotatable support and operable to take in and store a length of film fed to the support by the means; means on the rotatable support for cutting the film upstream in the travel direction of the film storer and thereby leaving a leading-end section of the film in the film storer; a welder on the rotatable support above the film storer for closing a trailing end of the section of the film; and a pull-down device in the station vertically displaceable below the feed head.