Cardboard case taping machine with improved movement control of the entry application roller

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The taping unit includes a supporting frame structure, for the delivery of the adhesive tape an entry application, roller and an exit application roller movable between an extracted or at rest position and a retracted position and a, tape cutter. The entry application roller is mounted on a mobile support, which is engaged with a guide contained within the outline of the frame of the taping unit and conformed so as to move the entry roller along a circular path with its center positioned outside the frame. The guide is preferably constituted by a fixed pivot slidably engaged in a shaped slot of the mobile support and by a connection pivot between the same mobile support and an arm rotatable …