Patent ID: 6691496
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: G09F,Y10T

Abstract:
An advertising arrangement used with luggage being shrink wrapped for protecting luggage, comprising a shrink-wrap applicator means incorporated inside a tunnel (3) of a machine protecting luggage (9) by shrink wrapping a sheet of plastic material around said luggage, said luggage (9) having a pair of larger size side panels joined by smaller front, rear, top and bottom portions, wherein said luggage (9) to be covered by said sheet of plastic material incorporating an advertising image enters said tunnel (3) by being advanced forward by a leading carrier (4) through an entrance (2) of said tunnel (3); said shrink-wrap applicator means shrink-wrapping said sheet of plastic material on said luggage leaving visible said advertising image, wherein said advertising image is exposed to at least one larger size side panel of said body of said suitcase (9), said shrink-wrap applicator means having at least one fixing element (5), (5â€²) fixing said sheet of plastic material with said advertising image, said sheet of plastic material being held in place by tensors (7) and (7â€²) situated in a lower part of said shrink-wrap applicator; said fixing elements (5), (5â€²) being moved by at least one actuator.