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Abstract

A method for binding logging waste or small timber material by using an automatic binding device, wherein the material is collected in a continuous bundle of brushwood and fed in the longitudinal direction. The material of the bundle of brushwood is compressed further in the binding device by tensioning the band which is fed in a continuous manner around the bundle of brushwood, and the band is finally locked as a strap which keeps the bundle of brushwood together. The binding device comprises at least binding means which are arranged for feeding a continuous band around the material to be bound, for compressing the material by tensioning the band and for forming a locked strap by means of the band around the material, and a transfer mechanism which is arranged to allow the movement of the binding means from an initial position towards the material when the band is tensioned, to allow the movement of the binding means in the direction of the surface of the material when the material is simultaneously compressed by tensioning the band further, and during the compression to allow the orientation of the position of the binding means continuously towards the material at different locations of its surface, as well as to return the binding means to the initial position after the formation of the strap.

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