Patent ID: 6871481

Claim:
An apparatus for packaging an article in a wrapping of a sheet material surrounding the article and closed in a fantail configuration, comprising: shaping means for wrapping the article with the said wrapping of sheet material and shaping the wrapping into a general cup-like configuration which upper portions formed into a plurality of loops surmounting the article, holding means for grasping the upper portions of the wrapping shaped in said manner in the connecting zones between said loops, to maintain said portions in an upright position, opposed pushing means which are intended to be operated subsequently to said holding means and which are displaceable between a retracted position and an advanced position, in which they interfere with the loops of the wrapping for imparting a generally flattened configuration to the wrapping in the zone extending above the article, and opposed fastening means displaceable in a direction substantially at right angles to the direction of motion of said pushing means, and intended to be operated subsequently to said pushing means for fastening the wrapping, which is held in the flattened configuration by said pushing means, to form a pinched neck of the wrapping.