PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING STACKING STRENGTH OF FILM WRAPPED ARTICLES.

摘要

The objective of the invention is to provide an alternative way of wrapping a product with cardboard at faster speed and maintain stacking strength. This accomplished by bending two strips of cardboard into the shape of a U channel where the sides of the U form an angle smaller than 90 degrees. The sides of the U channel cardboard will be open by a guide that will allow each U channel cardboard piece to slide around each end of the product without requiring glue to hold the U Channel in position. By maintaining an angle of less than 90 degrees the U channel cardboard act like a spring clamp around the product and maintains its position on the conveyor belt while the product is film wrapped and the film is heat shrunk.