A method for controlling, through a mobile device, wrapping operations in a wrapper for wrapping a round bale with a film, comprises the following steps, performed by a processor of the mobile device: coupling the mobile device to a control unit of the wrapper, by sending a coupling signal to the control unit; receiving control inputs from a user, through an interaction of the user with the mobile device; elaborating the control inputs and generating, based on the control inputs, a command message; sending the command message to the control unit of the wrapper; receiving, at the processor of the mobile device, operation data from the control unit of the wrapper, the operation data being representative of operations performed by the wrapper.

There is provided a method for wrapping a load comprising an upper portion defining an upper peripheral surface and a lower portion defining a lower peripheral surface. The method includes configuring a first material dispenser including a first material web in a first starting position and a second material dispenser including a second material web in a second starting position. The method includes and providing a rotation between the load and the material dispensers, such that, upon the rotation, the first material dispenser wraps the upper peripheral surface of the load with the first material web and the second material dispenser wraps the lower peripheral surface of the load with the second material web. The first material dispenser wraps the upper peripheral surface of the load simultaneously while the second material dispenser wraps the lower peripheral surface of the load during at least a portion of a wrapping cycle.

There is provided a method for wrapping a load comprising an upper portion defining an upper peripheral surface and a lower portion defining a lower peripheral surface. The method includes configuring a first material dispenser including a first material web in a first starting position and a second material dispenser including a second material web in a second starting position. The method includes and providing a rotation between the load and the material dispensers, such that, upon the rotation, the first material dispenser wraps the upper peripheral surface of the load with the first material web and the second material dispenser wraps the lower peripheral surface of the load with the second material web. The first material dispenser wraps the upper peripheral surface of the load simultaneously while the second material dispenser wraps the lower peripheral surface of the load during at least a portion of a wrapping cycle.

A method, apparatus and program product may evaluate a packaging material to determine various metrics associated with the packaging material. An apparatus may be used to sense flaws in packaging material, and in some instances, to accommodate such flaws by temporarily increasing a dispense rate of a packaging material dispenser.

A film gripping and releasing device for pallet wrapping machines of the type with a turntable and a fixed frame, comprises a gripper and movement means for the gripper on board the table, and a movable contact element constrained to the frame. The movable contact element can go from a retracted home position to an operating position projecting from the frame, and vice versa. When the contact element projects from the frame interacts with the movement means for the gripper in such a way as to shift the gripper along a guide, on which are arranged opening means and closing means for the gripper which are suitable for making the gripper go from a closed position in which it clamps the film to an open position in which it releases the film, and vice versa.

A delivery system may include a pallet wrapper system having a turntable, a camera directed toward an area above the turntable, and a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable. A computer receives images from the camera of multiple sides of a pallet loaded with packages on the turntable. The computer stitches images from different sides of the stack of packages that correspond to the same package. At least one machine learning model may be used to infer SKUs of each package. Optical character recognition may be performed in parallel on the images. The determination of the SKU of each package may be based upon the inferred SKUs and on the OCR.

A wrapping machine with a rotary platform to wrap products with at least one band of wrapping material has a base, a rotary platform, which defines a support surface for at least one product and is mounted so as to rotate around a rotation axis, and a support slide, which is configured to receive and hold a spool of the band of wrapping material and is movable along a guide upright, which is mounted so as to rotate around the rotation axis with a rotation direction that is contrary to a rotation direction of the rotary platform.

A platform for pallet wrapping machines includes a fixed base resting on the ground and a turntable which rotates relative to the base and in which a plurality of rollers is integrated, the rollers projecting from it in such a way as to support a pallet and provided with a movement device integrated with them, in such a way that the platform has a total thickness not greater than 10 centimeters.

A method of wrapping a palletized load includes forming at least two composite stretch films, wrapping each of the composite stretch films around the palletized load, and leaving a gap between the first composite stretch film and the second composite stretch film as the composite stretch films are wrapped around the palletized load. Forming the composite stretch films includes narrowing stretch film from a first spool to create a first banded stretch film with a first width, narrowing stretch film from a second spool to create a second banded stretch film with a second width smaller than the first width, and overlaying the second banded stretch film on the first banded stretch film, with the second banded stretch film positioned between the top edge and bottom edges of the first banded stretch film. The gap may have a width that is equal to or larger than the first width.

A method of wrapping a palletized load includes forming at least two composite stretch films, wrapping each of the composite stretch films around the palletized load, and leaving a gap between the first composite stretch film and the second composite stretch film as the composite stretch films are wrapped around the palletized load. Forming the composite stretch films includes narrowing stretch film from a first spool to create a first banded stretch film with a first width, narrowing stretch film from a second spool to create a second banded stretch film with a second width smaller than the first width, and overlaying the second banded stretch film on the first banded stretch film, with the second banded stretch film positioned between the top edge and bottom edges of the first banded stretch film. The gap may have a width that is equal to or larger than the first width.