US Patent Issued to Fuji Seal International on Nov. 3 for "Mandrel and method of spreading open a flattened tubular foil" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,463, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Fuji Seal International Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Mandrel and method of spreading open a flattened tubular foil" was invented by Lucas Van Rijsewijk (Boxtel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a mandrel to be suspended in a sleeving device, for spreading open a flattened tubular foil into a tubular form having a rounded cross section, having a spreading portion which extends in a feeding direction of the foil along a central axis of the mandrel and which is configured to change a cross section of the tubular foil from a flattened cross section into a rounded cross section. T...