Patent ID: 7908831

Claim:
A stretch wrap rope converter and wrapping system, which comprises: a.) a wrapping apparatus, said wrapping apparatus having: (i) a frame with a vertical vector for movement of a carriage thereon; (ii) said carriage moveably mounted to said frame for reciprocal movement along said vertical vector; (iii) drive means connected to said carriage for said movement of said carriage, said carriage adapted to hold at least one rotatable roll of stretchable film material thereon and being adapted to generate two separate streams of film therefrom, being a first stream of film and a second stream of film; (iv) a stretch wrap rope converter functionally connected to said carriage so as to receive said first stream of film and said second stream of film, said converter having a first orifice for receiving said first stream of film and for diminishing the width of said first stream of film to create a first rope, and having a second orifice for receiving said second stream of film and for diminishing its width to create a second rope, said converter further including rope rotation means so as to rotate said first orifice and said second orifice through an arc in at least one of a reciprocal fashion and a circular fashion to cause said first rope and said second rope to move toward and then away from one another; b.) wrapping target rotation means adapted to rotate at least one of said wrapping apparatus and a wrapping target so that said first rope and said second rope engage said wrapping target during rotation.