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MACHINE PALETTES [4 records]

Record 1 2023-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Clothes Cleaning and Dyeing Services
OBS

[This] machine [gently moves] the goods using paddles similar to a paddle wheel on a boat. This is a slow process, but there is extremely little abrasion on the goods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Teinturerie

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging Machinery and Equipment
  • Packaging in Plastic
  • Packaging Techniques
DEF

A process in which a package is wrapped in a thermoplastic film which is pulled tightly around the package. The film may be formulated to stick to itself on contact.

OBS

In the packaging industry, pallet stretch wrappers are very often named under more elliptical expressions like "stretch wrapper", "stretch wrapping machine" or "stretch packaging machine", which cannot be given as true synonyms, because this also applies to smaller packages.

OBS

The definition of stretchwrapping has been extracted from the European Union Standard; Packaging machines safety - Terminology and classification of packaging machines and associated equipment; prEn-415.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines et équipement d'emballage
  • Emballages en matières plastiques
  • Techniques d'emballage
OBS

En exploitant les propriétés d'élasticité à froid de certains plastiques (PEbd, PEbdl, PVC, EVA), on parvient à mettre sous film étirable des palettes, des fardeaux ou des lots unitaires. Deux principes essentiels sont mis en œuvre : le banderolage, avec ou sans rotation de la palette, et le drapage d'un colis par rideau. Dans ce domaine, les machines se font de plus en plus nombreuses [...]

OBS

Dans la langue des emballagistes, le terme «palette» comprend généralement la palette et son chargement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Palletization
  • Packaging Machinery and Equipment
  • Packaging in Plastic
DEF

Any type of machine used in pallet wrapping operations.

OBS

The French equivalents «banderoleuse de charges palettisées» and «machine à banderoler les palettes» are more specific in that they only apply to machines that wrap pallets using a stretch or heat-seal film.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Palettisation
  • Machines et équipement d'emballage
  • Emballages en matières plastiques
DEF

Machine employée pour l'emballage par banderolage des palettes sous film étirable ou rétractable.

OBS

Le banderolage, en palettisation, consiste à envelopper la charge à partir d'une bobine de film étirable ou thermorétractable. On peut déplacer le lot sur le film ou déplacer le film autour du lot (en rotation par exemple). Voir à ce sujet «Emballages Magazine», numéro 430, pages 50 à 53 et numéro 435, pages 60 à 64.

OBS

Dans la langue des emballagistes, le terme «palette» comprend la palette et son contenu.

Key term(s)
  • banderoleuse palette

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)

Spanish

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