US Patent Issued to AXON on June 23 for "Steam heated shrink tunnel" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,277, issued on June 23, was assigned to AXON LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Steam heated shrink tunnel" was invented by Adam W. Duncan (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for shrinking film onto products moving along a conveyance path includes an elongated steam chamber shaped to form a shrink tunnel through which the conveyance path extends, wherein tunnel side surface portions of the elongated steam chamber bound the path at least in tunnel regions above a plane of the conveyance path and the tunnel side surface portions are heated by steam within the elongated steam chamber and the tunnel side surface portions thereby r...