ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,336, issued on April 21, was assigned to ISHIDA Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Boxing device" was invented by Masashi Kurokawa (Ritto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boxing device has a box-moving section that moves a box with flaps from a supply position to a boxing position; a flap support section; and a pushing section. At the boxing position, articles are boxed in the box's opening. The flap support section supports the flaps. A pushing section pushes a group of side-by-side aligned articles into the box in the boxing position. Before the pushing section pushes the articles into the box, the box-moving section moves the box s...