Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B67/00—Apparatus or devices facilitating manual packaging operations; Sack holders
  • B65B67/02—Packaging of articles or materials in containers
  • B65B67/06—Manually-operable devices for closing bag necks, by applying and securing lengths of string, wire or tape
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
  • A01G17/00—Cultivation of hops, vines, fruit trees, or like trees
  • A01G17/04—Supports for hops, vines, or trees
  • A01G17/06—Trellis-work
  • A01G17/08—Tools e.g. clips for attaching hops, vines, or boughs to trellis-work; Tying devices
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
  • A01G17/00—Cultivation of hops, vines, fruit trees, or like trees
  • A01G17/04—Supports for hops, vines, or trees
  • A01G17/06—Trellis-work
  • A01G17/08—Tools e.g. clips for attaching hops, vines, or boughs to trellis-work; Tying devices
  • A01G17/085—Espalier machines; Tying machines

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for tying the vine, or other palisable plants, by means of an adhesive tape.
• the binding of the vine, or other plants consists of laying links joining the branches, or branches, to the trellising wires in order to maintain and guide the vegetation in its growth.
• the present invention aims to remedy these various drawbacks by proposing a device for tying the vine or other palisable plants by means of a adhesive tape, this device being of simple use, being able to be implemented in a single movement.
• the device according to the invention makes it possible, in the same movement, to unwind the adhesive tape, to surround the branch and the trellising wire, to join the two ends of the adhesive tape and to cut it, while preparing a new one. binding.
• the device according to the invention has for this purpose the characteristics appearing in the characterizing part of the independent claim.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic side view of a first embodiment of the device according to the invention.
• Figure la shows a side view of a detail of Figure 1, namely the means of cutting the adhesive tape after the installation of the link.
• Figure 3a shows a schematic view of a detail of Figure 3.
• FIG. 4a represents a schematic view of a detail of FIG. 4.
• FIG. 6 shows a schematic sectional view of a second embodiment of the device according to the invention.
• FIG. 8 represents a view in axial section, on a larger scale, of a detail of FIG. 7.
• FIG. 9 represents a partial perspective view of a detail of FIG. 6.
• a device 1 according to the invention comprises a flat body 10 enclosing in its rear part 11 a roll 2 of adhesive tape 20.
• Its front part 12 houses a star wheel 3 with six branches 30, mounted in free rotation about a transverse axis 31, the end of each of the branches 30 being provided with a small cylinder 32 with an axis parallel to the axis 31 of the toothed wheel 3 and of length substantially equal to the width of the adhesive tape 20.
• the branches 30 are distributed in three pairs 33, the branches 30 of a pair 33 being enclosed by side walls 34 extending beyond their ends and separated by the space 35 separating two adjacent branches 30 from two neighboring pairs 33.
• the axis 31 of the star wheel 3 crosses transversely the body 10 of the device 1 a short distance from its lower edge 13, which is rectilinear, so that a pair 33 of branches 31 completely exceeds it.
• a device for cutting the adhesive tape consisting of a blade 5 rocking through its middle, one end of which comprises a knife 50 capable, under the effect of a tilting movement, of crossing the finger 4 through a transverse slot, perpendicular to the latter, the other end 51 of the blade 5 projecting inside the arc formed by finger 4, and being held in position by means of a spring 52 of low resistance.
• the adhesive tape 20 is partially unwound so as to pass over the cylindrical ends 32 of the branches 30 projecting from the lower edge 13 of the body 10, its non-adhesive face in contact with said ends 32, and its end 21 adhering to the internal face of the finger 4 opposite the end 32 of the branch 30 furthest from the roller 2 of the pair 33 which projects beyond the lower edge 13 of the body 10.
• FIG. 3 by exerting a horizontal translational movement from front to back represented by the arrow M, which slides the lower edge 13 onto the branch 6, the latter comes into contact with the adhesive tape 20 and engages in the space 35 formed between two pairs of branches 30, 330 and 331 respectively. If we refer to FIG. 3a, we can see that at this stage of the operation the adhesive tape 20 already adheres to half the circumference of the branch 6.
• the branch 6 exerts pressure on the extreme part 51 of the blade 5, and due to the lower resistance of the spring 52 relative to the spring 41, the blade 5 rocks, the knife 50 crosses the finger 4 and comes to cut the adhesive tape 20 tangentially to the cylindrical end 32 of the branch 30 which has previously made the connection between the two adhesive parts of the tape 20, the continuation of the movement M causing the erasure of the finger 4 and the release of the branch 6 and the wire 60 linked.
• the device comprises a body 10 essentially consisting of two lateral flanges 7 joined at the top by a handle 70 and between which take place a star wheel 8, a lever, a finger 4 and a roller 2, d adhesive 20 which will be described in more detail below.
• the star wheel 8 has three branches 80 to 60 ° whose ends 81 are swollen and rounded and laterally bordered by walls 82, the space 81 'between two walls 82 being substantially equal to the width of the adhesive tape 20.
• the wheel 8 is rotatably mounted around an axis 89 transversely crossing the flanges 7 not far from a rectilinear edge 71 thereof so that the bottom of the notch 80 'formed between two branches 80, which is substantially round, is approximately tangent to the rectilinear edge 71.
• the star wheel 8 comprises in each of the branches 80 a radial channel 83 opening out on the one hand, on the side of the axis of rotation, in a cylindrical opening 84 concentric with the axis of rotation 89, and on the other hand, on the side of the end 81 of the branches 80, in a cavity 85 containing a cutting blade 86 whose cutting edge 87 is capable of coming out of the end
• the lever 9 which has a rectilinear part extended by an arcuate part, is pivotally mounted around an axis 90, its pivoting being limited by an axis 91 which is integral with it and which passes through oblong orifices 72 formed in each of the flanges 7.
• the lever 9 is held in the rest position by a spring 73 shown in FIG. 7.
• the axis 91 secured to the lever 9 also crosses the end of a connecting rod 93, the other end of which is crossed by an axis 94 passing through the cylindrical opening 84 opposite the ends of the pistons 88.
• the finger 4 is pivotally mounted in front and above the star wheel 8 around an axis 74, positioned near the edges of the flanges 7 and the straight end of the lever 9, and it is returned by a spring 42 of so that at rest it is placed on the end 81 of a branch 80 or partially overlaps two ends 81.
• the end of the finger 4 crossed by the axis 74 has a hollow 43 at the periphery surmounted by a bump 44 in an arc, the center of which coincides with the axis
• the recess 43 housing the end 92 of the lever 9 when the must 4 is in the rest position.
• this second embodiment is similar to that of the first with regard to the positioning of the adhesive 20: the branch 6 and the wire 60 brought together are brought into contact in the notch 80 ′ protruding from the body 10 , a pull in the direction of arrow T on the device for wrapping the branch 6 and the wire 60 by making them run along the edge 71, which has the effect of turning the star wheel 8.
• the extension of the traction T initiates, when the branch 6 and the wire 60 are linked, the lifting of the finger 4, which causes the exit of the hollow 43 from the end 92 of the lever 9, which rocks and brings the lower end 73 ′ of the spring 73, which is driven in the tilting, to block the adhesive tape 20 and the star wheel 8 which can no longer rotate.

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