US Patent Issued to ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner on Sept. 8 for "Method and device for loading a fibre-based container with a preform and for inserting the container into a blow mold" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,581, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG (Hard, Austria).

"Method and device for loading a fibre-based container with a preform and for inserting the container into a blow mold" was invented by Alexander Sohm (Dornbirn, Austria) and Adem Demir (Lauterach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device and a method for loading a fiber-based container (20) with a preform (30), comprising the following steps:providing a container (20) on a rotary plate (40);rotating the rotary plate (40) together with the container (20) into a predetermined position;inserting a preform (30)...