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Granted Patent B2
US 12,606,333 · App. 17/450,880 · Granted Apr 21, 2026

Strapping tool

Inventors: Andreas Keller (Birr, CH); Guido Leine (Koetinchem, NL); Kurt Bolliger (Ehrendingen, CH); Michael Wettstein (Lenzburg, CH); Samuel Hochstrasser (Fallanden, CH); Mirco Neeser (Ehrendingen, CH)
Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
B65B13/027B65B13/34
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Patent No.
US 12,606,333
App. No.
17/450,880
Granted
Apr 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.

Claims (30)

1 . A strapping tool comprising:

a support;

a sealing assembly mounted to the support and movable via translatory motion relative to the support between a sealing assembly home position and a sealing assembly sealing position, the sealing assembly comprising a cover and multiple jaws connected to the cover and pivotable relative to the cover from respective jaw home positions to respective jaw sealing positions in addition to the sealing assembly being movable via translatory motion between the sealing assembly home and sealing positions;

a conversion assembly comprising a linkage operably connected to the sealing assembly and configured to move the sealing assembly via translatory motion between the sealing assembly home position and the sealing assembly sealing position and configured to pivot the jaws between their jaw home positions and their jaw sealing positions, wherein the conversion assembly is configured to change an effective length of the linkage while moving the sealing assembly via translatory motion from the sealing assembly home position to the sealing assembly sealing position; and

a drive assembly operably connected to the conversion assembly and configured to drive the linkage.

2 . The strapping tool of claim 1 , wherein the conversion assembly further comprises a drive wheel comprising a drive shaft radially spaced from a rotational axis of the drive wheel, wherein the drive assembly is operably connected to the drive wheel and configured to rotate the drive wheel, wherein the linkage is mounted to the drive shaft.

3 . The strapping tool of claim 2 , wherein the conversion assembly further comprises a linkage mount mounted to and rotatable relative to the drive shaft, wherein the linkage is mounted to and rotatable relative to the linkage mount.

4 . The strapping tool of claim 3 , wherein the effective length of the linkage is a minimum effective length when the linkage mount is in a first rotational position relative to the linkage and a maximum effective length when the linkage mount is in a second different rotational position relative to the linkage.

5 . The strapping tool of claim 4 , wherein the linkage mount further comprises first and second fingers, wherein the conversion assembly further comprises an effective-length-changing device fixed relative to the drive wheel, the linkage, and the linkage mount, wherein the effective-length-changing device comprises first and second stationary fingers.

6 . The strapping tool of claim 5 , wherein the effective-length-changing device is mounted to the support.

7 . The strapping tool of claim 5 , wherein the first and second stationary fingers are positioned such that, during rotation of the drive wheel from a drive wheel home position to a drive wheel sealing position, the second finger engages the second stationary finger and causes the linkage mount to rotate relative to the linkage to increase the effective length of the linkage.

8 . The strapping tool of claim 7 , wherein the first and second stationary fingers are positioned such that, during rotation of the drive wheel from the drive wheel sealing position to the drive wheel home position, the first finger engages the first stationary finger and causes the linkage mount to rotate relative to the linkage to decrease the effective length of the linkage.

9 . The strapping tool of claim 4 , wherein the sealing assembly is in the sealing assembly home position and the jaws are in the jaw home positions when the effective length of the linkage is the minimum effective length.

10 . The strapping tool of claim 9 , wherein the sealing assembly is in the sealing assembly sealing position and the jaws are in the jaw sealing positions when the effective length of the linkage is the maximum effective length.

11 . The strapping tool of claim 1 , wherein the linkage is operably connected to the sealing assembly and configured to move the sealing assembly via translatory motion from the sealing assembly home position to the sealing assembly sealing position before pivoting the jaws from their jaw home positions to their jaw sealing positions.

12 . The strapping tool of claim 11 , wherein the linkage is operably connected to the sealing assembly and configured to pivot the jaws from their jaw sealing positions back to their jaw home positions before moving the sealing assembly via translatory motion from the sealing assembly sealing position back to the sealing assembly home position.

13 . A strapping tool comprising:

a support;

a sealing assembly mounted to the support and movable relative to the support between a sealing assembly home position and a sealing assembly sealing position, the sealing assembly comprising multiple jaws pivotable from respective jaw home positions to respective jaw sealing positions;

a conversion assembly comprising:

a drive wheel comprising a drive shaft radially spaced from a rotational axis of the drive wheel;

a linkage mount mounted to and rotatable relative to the drive shaft and comprising first and second fingers;

a linkage mounted to and rotatable relative to the linkage mount and operably connected to the sealing assembly, wherein the linkage is configured to move the sealing assembly between the sealing assembly home position and the sealing assembly sealing position and is configured to move the jaws between their jaw home positions and their jaw sealing positions; and

an effective-length-changing device fixed relative to the drive wheel, the linkage, and the linkage mount, wherein the effective-length-changing device comprises first and second stationary fingers;

wherein the conversion assembly is configured to change an effective length of the linkage while moving the sealing assembly from the sealing assembly home position to the sealing assembly sealing position,

wherein the effective length of the linkage is a minimum effective length when the linkage mount is in a first rotational position relative to the linkage and a maximum effective length when the linkage mount is in a second different rotational position relative to the linkage; and

a drive assembly operably connected to the drive wheel and configured to rotate the drive wheel to drive the linkage.

14 . The strapping tool of claim 13 , wherein the effective-length-changing device is mounted to the support.

15 . The strapping tool of claim 13 , wherein the first and second stationary fingers are positioned such that, during rotation of the drive wheel from a drive wheel home position to a drive wheel sealing position, the second finger engages the second stationary finger and causes the linkage mount to rotate relative to the linkage to increase the effective length of the linkage.

16 . The strapping tool of claim 15 , wherein the first and second stationary fingers are positioned such that, during rotation of the drive wheel from the drive wheel sealing position to the drive wheel home position, the first finger engages the first stationary finger and causes the linkage mount to rotate relative to the linkage to decrease the effective length of the linkage.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 14, 2021
From: KELLER, ANDREAS; LEINE, GUIDO; BOLLIGER, KURT; WETTSTEIN, MICHAEL; HOCHSTRASSER, SAMUEL; SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP GMBH
To: SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP LLC
Reel/Frame 057798/0843 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 14, 2021
From: KELLER, ANDREAS; LEINE, GUIDO; BOLLIGER, KURT; WETTSTEIN, MICHAEL; HOCHSTRASSER, SAMUEL; NEESER, MIRCO; SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP GMBH
To: SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP LLC
Reel/Frame 057814/0666 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation 16852797 · Apr 20, 2020
Provisional Application 62907248 · Sep 27, 2019
Provisional Application 62844389 · May 7, 2019
Related Publication 20220063850A1 · Mar 3, 2022
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