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Abstract

A device for girding an article with a strip of adhesive tape whose ends adhere to one another where the device includes a housing with a cavity for accommodating a supply roll of adhesive tape, a star wheel rotatable with light friction having a number of spokes bounding identical, substantially radial recesses disposed at mutually equiangular distances, two mutually registered slits open on one side which are present in the front wall and the rear wall respective of the housing and which together bound a channel wherethrough an article for girding is moved from the open side. A movable positioning arm is arranged hingedly on a tilt piece which engages with its free end into a recess in the star wheel, whereby this star wheel is positioned such that another recess is situated in a channel and is ready to receive an article for girding. When the tilt piece is moved out of an inactive position into a cutting position, an arm is carried into a positioning position in a recess of the star wheel by a stop located on the tilt piece. A drawstring is connected on one side to the housing and on the other side to the positioning arm in a zone located on the side of the positioning arm remote from the free end.

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