A corner post application system for a load having corners includes corner post applicators and moveable corner post holders. The corner post applicators include a corner post gripper configured to grasp a corner post, with the corner post applicators configured to move the corner post to a corner of the load. The corner post holders each have a clamp and are moveable between a retracted position and an engaged position, where in the engaged position the clamp is configured to engage a respective corner post to press the corner post against the load at the respective corner. When the corner post holders are in the engaged position the corner post applicators are configured to be retracted with the corner posts being held in engagement with the corners of the load by the corner post holders to enable an enveloping machine to initiate placement of a film over the load.

The invention discloses a gasket placement mechanism for a high speed wire rod baling machine and a related gasket structure. The baling machine comprises two pressing plates (2) reciprocating in the direction of compression, and filing-prevention disks (25) which are in a circular shape and have a certain thickness are fixed on two opposite compression surfaces of the pressing plates. Four diagonals of the pressing plates along with the filing-prevention disks are provided with four wire grooves (18) banding steel wires, and four diagonals of the pressing plates are respectively provided with conveying rollers (16) and gasket rolls (17). A numerical control motor drives the conveying rollers to rotate so as to drive the gasket rolls to be unfolded horizontally, and the unfolded gaskets (14) penetrate through a channel formed by the filing-prevention disks to reach the position of the wire grooves of the pressing plates. The gaskets are in a parallelogram shape or a long and narrow rectangle shape, and the adjacent gaskets are connected by means of the hypotenuses or long edges; sawtooth holes (14c) or line-like concave indentations are provided; conveying tooth holes (14a) are provided at the corresponding unfolded positions of the gasket rollers. The gasket placement mechanism achieves the mechanization and automation for gasket placement, specialized production of the gasket is facilitated, and operating efficiency is improved.

A system for isolating each end of a cylindrical coil wall from a tensioned binding medium employed to retain the coil wall in an axially compacted state. The system includes a magazine for containing a supply of pliable inserts. A feeding mechanism advances inserts from the magazine and along a guide for successive delivery to a clamp. The clamp is operative to releasably hold an insert received from the guide. The clamp is shiftable to position the insert in a gap between the end of the coil wall and a path along which a binding medium is directed prior to being tensioned. When the binding medium is tensioned, the insert is pulled from the clamp into a protective position tightly sandwiched between the tensioned binding medium and the coil end.

A device forms and applies an edge protector to a corner of a load as strap is positioned and tensioned around the load, to position the edge protector between the strap and the load. The device includes a shuttle movable between a home position away from the load and an application position near the load. The shuttle includes a breaker assembly having a fixed portion and a movable portion. The movable portion is movable between a position in which it is generally planar with the fixed portion and another position in which it is transverse to the fixed portion. The breaker assembly includes a shoe that defines a receiving region between the shoe and the fixed and movable portions. The shuttle includes a load contact portion. Movement of the shuttle from the home position moves the movable portion from the first to the second position to fold the edge protector. Further movement of the shuttle and contact of the load contact portion with the load discharges the edge protector for receipt on the load as the strap is positioned and tensioned around the load.

A device forms and applies an edge protector to a corner of a load as strap is positioned and tensioned around the load, to position the edge protector between the strap and the load. The device includes a shuttle movable between a home position away from the load and an application position near the load. The shuttle includes a breaker assembly having a fixed portion and a movable portion. The movable portion is movable between a position in which it is generally planar with the fixed portion and another position in which it is transverse to the fixed portion. The breaker assembly includes a shoe that defines a receiving region between the shoe and the fixed and movable portions. The shuttle includes a load contact portion. Movement of the shuttle from the home position moves the movable portion from the first to the second position to fold the edge protector. Further movement of the shuttle and contact of the load contact portion with the load discharges the edge protector for receipt on the load as the strap is positioned and tensioned around the load.

A method of producing a packing body includes the steps of: stacking a plurality of packaging bodies, placing reinforcing sheet materials so as to wrap outer peripheries of side surfaces of the packaging bodies that have been stacked, and fastening the packaging bodies that have been stacked by placing a fastening band from an outer side of the reinforcing sheet materials. The placing step includes placing the reinforcing sheet materials on the side surfaces of the packaging bodies to protrude an end portions of the reinforcing sheet material from an upper surface of a packaging body in an uppermost layer and from a lower surface of a packaging body in a lowermost layer. The fastening step includes bending the end portions, covering an edge portion of each packaging body, and placing the fastening band on the edge portions with the reinforcing sheet materials interposed therebetween.

The invention describes, and illustrates, a strapping apparatus for strapping packages using a strapping means, having a packaging table, on which the package is guided through the apparatus, having vertical supports, which are arranged laterally in relation to the packaging table and on which a press plate can be displaced vertically, having an arrangement device for arranging an edge-protection means, it being possible for the arrangement device to be displaced horizontally on the press plate along a movement path, and having a controller, which moves the arrangement device into an arrangement position for arranging the edge-protection means on the package, wherein a means for sensing the position of the package is arranged in an entry region of the strapping apparatus, and the position-sensing means senses an entry position of the package during the entry movement thereof.

A strapping apparatus (10) for packages, has a packing table (11) on which the package (13) to be strapped lies. The apparatus has vertically oriented supports (17) which are arranged laterally on the packing table (11), a horizontally oriented pressing plate (18) which is arranged on the vertical supports (11) and which is movable in a vertical direction, and a device, situated on the pressing plate (18), for the arrangement of an edge protection means on the package (13) lying on the packing table (11). The device for the arrangement of the edge protection means can be moved from an initial position remote from the package into an arrangement position close to the package (13). The device includes at least one magazine (19), arranged on the pressing plate (18), for the supply of edge protection means and has a first clearance outline profile which is delimited by the packing table (11), the vertical supports (17), the pressing plate (18) and the at least one magazine (19). The magazine (19) has a normal position which, for the transfer of an edge protection means, corresponds to the initial position of the arrangement device, and the magazine (19) is a part of a first clearance outline profile. The magazine (19) has a deflected position into which it can be moved from the normal position and in which the magazine (19) is part of a second, wider clearance outline profile. A method for strapping packages in a strapping apparatus is also disclosed.

A device arranges an edge protector on a package. The device includes a drive wheel for moving the device along a guiding rail from a point of departure to the package and from the package to the point of departure. A motor is carried by the device and drives the drive wheel. A clamp mount includes a movable clamping jaw and a counter bearing for taking up the edge protector in an open position of the clamping jaw and to hold it in a closed position of the clamping jaw. The motor drives the drive wheel and acts on a power transmission assembly to induce opening and closing of the clamping jaw. A device for strapping packages having the edge protector applicator includes a frame carrying a press plate above a vertically movable packing table. The press plate has running rails on which the edge protector applicator is movably mounted. The applicator device is mounted below the press plate.

A system for isolating each end of a cylindrical coil wall from a tensioned binding medium employed to retain the coil wall in an axially compacted state. The system includes a magazine for containing a supply of pliable inserts. A feeding mechanism advances inserts from the magazine and along a guide for successive delivery to a clamp. The clamp is operative to releasably hold an insert received from the guide. The clamp is shiftable to position the insert in a gap between the end of the coil wall and a path along which a binding medium is directed prior to being tensioned. When the binding medium is tensioned, the insert is pulled from the clamp into a protective position tightly sandwiched between the tensioned binding medium and the coil end.