US Patent Issued on Oct. 27 for "Tube packing apparatus" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,005, issued on Oct. 27.

"Tube packing apparatus" was invented by Collin A. Renaud (Plainfield, Conn.) and Steven A. Gilman (Brooklyn, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particulate delivery and packing apparatus for depositing and compressing particulate material in elongate containers. The containers may have one closed end or two open ends. A modular elongate container magazine is positioned on a base plate of the apparatus to receive a controlled-descent hopper having a plurality of packing tubes extending downwardly from a bottom end of the hopper. Each of the plurality of packing tubes is aligned with a channel in the contai...