Patent ID: 7318308

Claim:
A device for longitudinally strapping packaged material with strapping, comprising: a strapping roll from which the strapping is unwound; a strapping travel path defined between the strapping roll and the packaged material; a first holding means provided in the strapping travel path that is capable of holding the strapping; one carrier roll connected to said device by a pivot lever so that the carrier roll pivots between first and second positions along an outer circumferential periphery of the strapping roll; a strapping storage system disposed between the first and second positions of the carrier roll; the carrier roll is adapted for engaging the strapping in the strapping travel path between the strapping roll and the first holding means so that: strapping is not engaged by said carrier roll when said carrier roll is in said first position; and strapping is deposited in the strapping storage system when the carrier roll pivots around the strapping roll from said first position into said second position and said first holding means engages the strapping.