Patent attributes
A gripping apparatus associable to a wrapping machine and arranged to grip and retain an end flap of a film wrapped around a load at the end of a wrapping process, comprises pliers which include a first lever and a second lever that are hinged around a first axis and provided respectively with a first jaw and a second jaw suitable to tighten the film in a gripping position, a supporting arrangement for supporting the pliers and an actuator device fixed to the supporting arrangement and arranged to move the pliers between the gripping position and a releasing position, in which the jaws are spaced apart; the first lever comprises a first connecting end that is opposite to the first jaw and rotatably fixed to the supporting arrangement and the second lever comprises a second connecting end that is opposite to the second jaw, rotatably connected to the actuator device and linearly actuated by the latter along a first displacement direction in such a manner that the jaws are mobile around the first axis, along said first displacement direction and along a second displacement direction transversal to said first displacement direction.
