Patent ID: 6912762
Filing Date: 2005-07-05
Classification: B65B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for automated debanding of pallets by cutting bands which extend about at least portions of the pallet being operated upon, comprising: a frame; at least one receiver at which a pallet is received to be operated upon by the apparatus; at least one movable head mounted upon said frame for movement relative to a pallet received in said at least one receiver; at least one band detector which scans at least one surface of a pallet to detect the number and location of bands which are on a pallet being operated upon in the at least one receiver by said apparatus; at least one band cutter mounted upon the at least one movable head for severing bands extending about a pallet positioned in the at least one receiver; at least one controller for recording information obtained from the at least one band detector indicating the number and position of any bands on a pallet being operated upon; and an overlay analyzer for determining which of any intersecting bands on a pallet being operated upon are overlay bands and for causing an overlay band of any such intersecting bands to be cut before any cutting of an underlay band of the intersecting bands.