Bendable Label with Openings for Twine Attachment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices for attaching labels to agricultural bales, such as twine, face challenges in ensuring secure attachment and traceability, particularly in environments with dust and agricultural residues that can compromise adhesive bonds.
Innovation Solution
A device and method utilizing bendable labels with specific openings that clamp onto elongate flexible objects like twine, allowing for secure attachment without adhesives, using bending means to push the label onto the object and maintain tension, along with transport and separation mechanisms to ensure reliable and efficient label application.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If adhesive bonds are used to attach labels to agricultural bales, then the label attachment method is simple, but the reliability of attachment is compromised in environments with dust and agricultural residues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the chemical adhesive bonding system with a mechanical fastening system. The label includes openings that allow an elongate flexible object (such as twine or wire) to pass through, creating a mechanical anchor that secures the label to the bale. This mechanical attachment method is not affected by dust or agricultural residues, thereby maintaining reliability in demanding agricultural environments while remaining simple to implement.
2Device complexity
If the label is made compact for integration into bale presses, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ease of operation for label application may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The label design incorporates self-aligning features where the openings are positioned to automatically align with the elongate flexible object as it passes through the bale pressing mechanism. The label's own structure facilitates its attachment process, reducing the need for complex positioning mechanisms and manual intervention, thereby maintaining ease of operation within a compact device configuration.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides a reliable, adhesive-free attachment method that maintains label position for easy reading, is compact for integration into bale presses, and is cost-effective, ensuring high reliability and efficiency in demanding agricultural environments.
Implementation Method 1
the label is bendable and adapted to clamp the elongate flexible object in the first opening and the second opening under bending stress of the label
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AI summary
Device (100) and method for attaching a label (11,12) for identifying a bale to an elongate flexible object (1), wherein the device comprises storage means (20) for the label and attachment means (40) for attaching the label to the elongate flexible object, and wherein the label, on its edge, has an opening (14) which is adapted to attach the label to the elongate flexible object (1).