US Patent Issued to ILAPAK INTERNATIONAL on June 23 for "Folding unit for folding a film material to form a tubular wrapping" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,272, issued on June 23, was assigned to ILAPAK INTERNATIONAL S.A. (Collina d'Oro, Italy).

"Folding unit for folding a film material to form a tubular wrapping" was invented by Alessandro Zanin (Collina d'Oro, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A folding unit includes componentry for folding a continuous sheet of a film material fed along an infeeding direction, to form a tubular wrapping. The folding unit has a base structure, a first pair of folding plates and a second pair of folding plates. Folding edges of the plates of the first pair of folding plates form, with the base structure, a first angle, while folding edges of the pla...