Patent ID: 6546852
Filing Date: 2003-04-15
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
Machine for packaging skeins of flexible elements of elongated shape, each skein being shaped as a circular ring having opposite planar faces and an axis of symmetry and being constituted by an ordered succession of turns, said machine comprising: a station for binding the turns; and a feeding station provided with skein clamping means, wherein said clamping means comprise jaws shaped as circular sectors, which are able to rotate around an axis of rotation, said jaws holding one of the skeins by applying a clamping force to the opposite planar faces of a first portion of the skein while the skein is positioned so that the axis of symmetry of the skein corresponds at least approximately to the axis of rotation of said jaws and the opposite planar faces of a second portion of said skein extend beyond said jaws and are thus exposed, wherein said second portion of the skein projects from said jaws towards said binding station; said binding station effecting at least one binding of the turns in correspondence with at least the second portion of the skein and effecting such bindings in appropriate phase relationship with rotations imparted to the skein by said jaws in said feeding station.