US3695423A - Package tape with sticks retained thereon - Google Patents
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- ABSTRACT [22] Filed: Sept 1970 A tensioned tape having two corresponding series of [21] Appl. No.: 69,862 circular pre-punched holes and a series of planar elongated articles each having a substantial width in rela- Related U.S. Application Data tion to its thickness are provided. The plane of each elongated article is parallel to the axis of the tape so [62] D mslon of 1968 that the tape is flatened against the opposite faces of the articles. [52] [1.8. CI.
- This invention relates to a package of planar elongated articles having a substantial width in relation to the thickness, and a method of making such a package.
- a tensioned tape having two corresponding series of circular prepunched holes and a series of planar elongated articles each having a substantial width in relation to its thickness, and the plane of each being parallel to the axis of the tape so that the tape is flattened against the opposite faces of the articles.
- planar elongated articles are wooden sticks to be used with frozen confections and the diameter of the holes is slightly smaller than the stick width to give a snug interference fit; and the tape is wound into a roll.
- Our invention also resides in the method of providing a longitudinally tensioned and folded tape having a series of prepunched holes through both portions separated by the fold, inserting planar elongated articles through the holes with the article plane parallel to the axis of the tape and opening the tape while still under tension to eliminate the fold.
- FIG. 1 is a top plan view of the general arrangement
- FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the arrangement
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the insertion of the sticks, this view looks somewhat downwardly onto the opposite side from FIG. 2,
- FIG. 4 is a section through the stick hopper feed and pickup wheel
- FIG. 5 shows a detail arcuate paper guide, 5a, 5b and 50 being sections at successive places
- FIG. 6 is a schematic representation of the direction of travel and the forces exerted on the sticks and paper tape
- FIG. 7 shows an orthogonal view of the approaching paper tape and wheel, in a scale more nearly actual size
- FIG. 8 shows a perspective view of a portion of unspooled tape and stick assembly sectioned through the leading hole pair.
- a channel iron framework generally indicated as 2 is provided with a table like surface 4 to provide a plane for locating major horizontally mounted components.
- a folded paper tape 6 passes through a rotary punching station generally indicated by numeral 8, comprising male punch wheel 10 and female die wheel 12 which are mounted on table 4.
- a plurality of male punch members 14 are spaced equally around the periphery of wheel 10 and a similar plurality of corresponding dies 16 are sunk through the rim of wheel 12, so as to enable the wheels to mesh together while punching holes 18 in the paper.
- This wheel is mounted on an arm 19 and a spring 21 applies a light tension to the paper coming out of the punch.
- the paper is then drawn along an arcuate body shown generally at 22 and having an inverted channel portion 24 as shown in FIGS. 5, 5a, 5b and 5c.
- the radially inner edge of the arcuate channel extends downwardly so as to provide a support wall 26 for the full height of the paper tape as in FIGS. 50 and 5b.
- the support wall 26 is not coterminous with the channel proper as is shown, for reasons which are explained in the next paragraph; and it is provided with a stiffening reinforcement 28 and a lug 30 as may be seen best from FIG. 5.
- This lug is provided with a hole which accepts a shaft 32 projecting upwardly from the table.
- the end of the shaft is threaded for nut 34, which is locked to prevent upward displacement of arcuate body 22 but allows this body to rotate about shaft 32.
- the position of the arcuate body must be located with some accuracy since the stocks are inserted immediately after the termination of the support wall 26, while the channel 24, which continues on thereafter, still locates the paper top.
- bracket 36 which is attached to the channel portion by welding.
- a shaft 38 is attached at one end of the bracket 36 and passes through block 40 which is mounted on the table 4.
- a register at the other end of the shaft 38 bears against block 40 to prevent radially outward movement of the arcuate body 22 and a compression spring 42 provides a progressively increasing resistance to radially inward movement at the stick insertion station 44.
- the arcuate channel 24 begins after the support wall 26. This is to avoid the possibility of the radially outer wall of the channel contacting and tearing tearing paper as it enters, no matter how the channel swings about shaft 32.
- the journey of the sticks to the stick insertion station is best understood by reference to FIG. 4.
- the sticks 46 are placed in a hopper 48 slightly wider than the length of the sticks.
- a conveyor wheel 50 provided with a circumferentially split rim having aligned slots 51 which are of a width convenient to receive the sticks, is disposed at one end of the hopper box and continuously accepts sticks therefrom. This wheel is narrower than the length of the sticks.
- Rotary brushes 52 driven from wheel 50 by belt 54, brush off any excess sticks or those not properly set in the receiving slots and thereby return them to the hopper.
- the inner face of the rim of conveyor wheel 50 carries an internal driving chain 56 which drives a sprocket 58 secured on shaft 60, mounted on bearings in a bracket fromframework 2.
- This shaft drives a sprocket wheel 62 and chain 64 which drives a further sprocket 66 whose shaft 68 drives the punch and die wheels, 10, 12 through right angle gearing (not shown).
- other drives such as spur gearing may be used instead of the chains and sprockets described.
- the mid height of the support wall 26 of arcuate guide 22 is in the same vertical plane as and closely adjacent to the top point of conveyor wheel 50; and this support wall terminates at or somewhat before reaching the conveyor wheel top although the inverted channel continues on a little distance to provide a guide in both the horizontal and vertical planes as will be understood from FIGS. 1, 5, and c and 6.
- the continuation of the inverted channel 22 beyond the termination of support wall 26 helps preserve the tape in the folded condition after the sticks have been inserted through the paper.
- This contact point of the wheel with the tape keeps the tape in substantially a straight line, its purpose being to ensure that guide 88 and particularly projection 94 pushes the sticks relative to the paper and through the holes and does not merely push stick and paper together out of the line of travel. That is, perhaps, best illustrated schematically in FIG. 6 where only the sticks and paper are shown in full, other important features being shown in ghost outline or represented by arrows showing the forces they apply, broad arrows indicating direction of travel.
- the paper tape is called for ease of reference substantially flat, it will be appreciated that it consists in section of an upper mid span above the plane of the row of sticks and two lower end spans below the row; the overall sectional height of the tape is thus approximately that of the thickness of the sticks plus twice the thickness of the paper.
- the substantially flat tape then passes from idler pulley 98 underneath tensioning pulley 100 to spooling idler pulley 104. It will be observed that the weight of the tensioning pulley 100 is supported mainly by the paper tension, since arm 106 (by which the pulley is attached to the frame 2) is approximately horizontal. The paper tape is then wound onto spool 108 which is driven by an electric motor and gearbox 110.
- This motor and gearbox (which also drives conveyor wheel 50 through a chain 112) drives a shaft 114 through a pulley 116 by means of a belt drive 118. This drive is counter rotational to maintain the correct tape and stick motion.
- a rubber tired wheel 120 is secured to the shaft 114 and rotates to produce a frictional drive on the Spool 108 which is otherwise freely rotatable about its shaft 122. This wheel thus acts at the spooling radius, whatever it may be to produce an approximately constant spooling tension, any variations being absorbed by raising or lowering of pulley 100.
- Spool 108 rotates within non-rotating guide plates 124 which has a slot 126 to permit wheel 120 to reach into the space between them without shaft 114 fouling the edges.
- a rigid bar 128 is bolted to the guide plates to prevent them rotating after the growth of the spool has pushed shaft 114 from slot 126.
- the main portion of the weight of the spool, 108, guide plates, 124, shaft 122 and associated hardware is suspended from framework 2 by arm 130 pivoted at pin 132 at its upper end and carrying shaft 122 at its lower end.
- this spooling device will be evident: after attachment of the tape and to the spool and starting of the motor gearbox unit the roll of tape and sticks will gradually increase in diameter; and the edge of slot 126 will ride up shaft 114 as arm 130 rotates in a clockwise sense due to the growth of the roll diameter pushing shaft 122 further away from rubber tired wheel 120.
- the diameter of the holes is somewhat smaller than the width of the sticks; that is to say that the stick is a snug fit in the hole and can be pushed into the hole without tearing the paper. If the fit is good enough to retain the stick from falling if the folded paper tape is held in a horizontal plane, then the stick ends will remain in alignment. Otherwise, a bent stick, searching for its hole may deflect the spring 42 and the tape so that when it suddenly slips into place the tape may joggle other loose fitting sticks badly off center or may even in extreme cases cause the sticks to be ejected from the paper.
- FIG. 8 shows the assembly before spooling into a roll. It will be seen that the two series of holes divide the paper laterally into three portions, the two outer portions being in the same plane and the mid portion being in a plane parallel to the outer portions, but displaced therefrom by the thickness of the stick. Of course, these planes become archimedean spirals or similar to watch springs when the package is ready for shipment.
- the spacing of the holes is, of course, dependent upon their size and the strength of the tape material. Too great a spacing leads to uneconomical lengths of paper and slow stick feed rates; and too close a spacing weakens the tape.
- a further feature of this tape is that in case of breakage it can be joined very easily by merely placing one end over the other for three or four holes and insertin the sticks to make the joint.
- a package comprising a tape having two corresponding series of round pre-punched holes, each of said series being parallel to the longitudinal axis of said tape, said two series being spaced apart to define three lateral portions of tape in two adjacent parallel planes, a series of sticks, each of said sticks having a substantial width relative to its thickness, each of said sticks extending through one hole of each of said series, and being coplanar with said longitudinal axis of said tape so that said alternate lateral portions of said tape are in contact with opposed major surfaces of said stick, and said round holes have a diameter which is approximately the same as the width of said sticks.
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US2079005A (en) * | 1936-02-25 | 1937-05-04 | Freydberg Bros Inc | Dispensing device |
US2467799A (en) * | 1945-04-28 | 1949-04-19 | Samuel H Archer | Sanitary holder and dispenser for tongue blades |
US3231082A (en) * | 1963-01-25 | 1966-01-25 | Cornell Dubilier Electric | Capacitor conveying strip |
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Owner name: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED,IL Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:POPSICLE INDUSTRIES, INC. A CORP. OF DE.;REEL/FRAME:004761/0876 Effective date: 19870602 Owner name: FIRST INTERSTATE BANK OF WISCONSIN,WISCONSIN Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:POPSICLE INDUSTRIES, INC. A CORP. OF DE.;REEL/FRAME:004761/0876 Effective date: 19870602 Owner name: MARINE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,WISCONSIN Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:POPSICLE INDUSTRIES, INC. A CORP. OF DE.;REEL/FRAME:004761/0876 Effective date: 19870602 Owner name: NORWEST BANK MINNEAPOLIS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,MIN Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:POPSICLE INDUSTRIES, INC. A CORP. OF DE.;REEL/FRAME:004761/0876 Effective date: 19870602 Owner name: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED, C Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:POPSICLE INDUSTRIES, INC. A CORP. OF DE.;REEL/FRAME:004761/0876 Effective date: 19870602 Owner name: FIRST INTERSTATE BANK OF WISCONSIN, 6130 WEST NATI Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:POPSICLE INDUSTRIES, INC. A CORP. OF DE.;REEL/FRAME:004761/0876 Effective date: 19870602 Owner name: MARINE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 111 EAST WISCON Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:POPSICLE INDUSTRIES, INC. A CORP. OF DE.;REEL/FRAME:004761/0876 Effective date: 19870602 Owner name: NORWEST BANK MINNEAPOLIS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 8T Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:POPSICLE INDUSTRIES, INC. A CORP. OF DE.;REEL/FRAME:004761/0876 Effective date: 19870602 |
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