US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Jan. 27 for "Feed system for container carrier applicating machine" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,244, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Feed system for container carrier applicating machine" was invented by Jimmy D. Whitten (Westminster, S.C.), John Miller (Easley, S.C.), Charles Bryan Shiflet (Anderson, S.C.), J. Mark Nunn (Simpsonville, S.C.), Sam Lockaby (Easley, S.C.), Clifford Halstead (Spartanburg, S.C.) and Brian Williams (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for applying container carriers to unitize a plurality of containers. A supply of container carriers are provided in a stack and grouped into sticks of multiple adjacent containe...