Patent ID: 8746136

Claim:
A banding device comprising: a frame; a feeding assembly for feeding an elastic tubing into the frame; a transfer assembly including a body is disposed within the frame, the transfer assembly having a pick up assembly, the pick up assembly having two or more fingers, the fingers adapted to receive the elastic tubing as fed from the feeding assembly; and a cutting assembly disposed between the transfer assembly and feeding assembly for cutting predetermined lengths of tubing into at least a band, at least one of the two or more fingers moveable between a first closed position for receiving the band and second open position for opening the band, and the body being moveable between a first position for receiving the band and a second position for transferring the band to a banding assembly, and the banding assembly for receiving the band from the transfer assembly at the second position and further opening the band, and adapted to receive an item to be bundled, and releasing the band about the item; wherein the cutting assembly includes a cutting blade rotatably mounted within the frame and a cutting block, the tubing traveling along a feed path, the cutting blade moving from a first position to a second position through the feed path to contact the cutting block and the cutting assembly has a cutting head, the cutting heading including a projection for pressing a tubing in the feed path against the cutting block.