ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,821, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).
"Strapping device and method for producing strapped packages" was invented by Sebastian Schmid (Rosenheim, Germany), Thomas Stadler (Kolbermoor, Germany) and Herbert Spindler (Niedermoosen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a strapping device and a method for producing strapped packages, which combine at least two articles by at least one strap. The strapping device is paired with a device for providing two or more grouped articles. and the strapping device comprises a handling device (10) with two pivoting arms (11, 12) which can...