Patent ID: 8272191

Claim:
A packaging system comprising: a rotating platform having a vertical column; a plurality of air supply lines attached to the column, including first and second air supply lines for each respective clipper station; and a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart clippers mounted to the rotating platform, wherein each clipper includes on-board air supply lines that releasably connect to the first and second air supply lines of a respective clipper station; wherein the platform is configured to concurrently mount the plurality of clippers in respective circumferentially spaced apart clipper stations, and wherein the platform is configured to releasably interchangeably mount at least two different sized clippers in respective clipper stations, the different sized clippers being configured to output different sized clips, with one clipper being larger than the other, and wherein the air supply lines of each different sized clipper interchangeably releasably attach to the first and second air supply lines at a respective clipper station, and wherein the on-board air supply lines of the clippers comprise valves, and wherein the larger size clippers have larger valves than the smaller size clippers, and wherein the first and second air supply lines of each clipper station have a standardized fitting that interconnects to both the large and small size clippers.