US Patent Issued to AISAPACK HOLDING on May 5 for "Method for extruding and labelling a cylindrical product" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. RE50,879, issued on May 5, was assigned to AISAPACK HOLDING SA (Vouvry, Switzerland).

"Method for extruding and labelling a cylindrical product" was invented by Jacques Thomasset (Neuvecelle, France) and Eduardo Rey (Vouvry, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for extruding and labeling a packaging tube comprises the following successive steps: a) forming a partially or totally tubular label from a film in a shaper; b) inserting the label into a calibration element; c) extruding a tubular body at the concave-face side of the label in an extrusion head; d) bringing the outer face of the extruded tubular body into contact with...