Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dunnage conversion machine having a variable spacing for expandable slit-sheet stock material
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Application No.: US16497174Application Date: 2018-03-22
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Publication No.: US11260615B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Robert C. Cheich , Dennis J. Wagner
- Applicant: Ranpak Corp.
- Applicant Address: US OH Concord Township
- Assignee: Ranpak Corp.
- Current Assignee: Ranpak Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Concord Township
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2018/023799 WO 20180322
- International Announcement: WO2018/175742 WO 20180927
- Main IPC: B31D5/00
- IPC: B31D5/00 ; B65H23/04

Abstract:
A dunnage conversion machine for converting an expandable pre-slit sheet stock material into a relatively less dense dunnage product includes an improved expansion assembly that provides means for adjusting the spacing between axes of rotation of components through which the sheet stock material is drawn. The adjustability enables pre-slit sheet stock materials of differing thicknesses and/or having differing slit patterns to be fed through the expansion assembly with no or minimal compression of an expanded dunnage product, jamming in the conversion machine, bunching, and/or tearing of the pre-slit sheet stock material or expanded dunnage product resulting from expansion of the pre-slit sheet stock material.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200016860A1 DUNNAGE CONVERSION MACHINE HAVING A VARIABLE SPACING FOR EXPANDABLE SLIT-SHEET STOCK MATERIAL Public/Granted day:2020-01-16
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