ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,068, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Holweg Group (Molsheim, France).
"Method and machine for manufacturing a flexible envelope-like bag, particularly with reinforcement" was invented by Cedric Ritondo (Molsheim, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing flexible bags, including: a first strip of flexible material is unwound as a continuous sheet in a longitudinal direction; a hem is formed on each edge of the first strip and the hems are glued over at least one length of a first or a second flap on one stitching face; a fold is formed in the first strip along a transverse folding line to fold down the fir...