US Patent Issued to L & P Property Management on June 16 for "Assembly machine for manufacturing partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,013, issued on June 16, was assigned to L & P Property Management Co. (Carthage, Mo.).

"Assembly machine for manufacturing partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly" was invented by John R. Newman (Neosho, Mo.), Mark G. Meyer (Carthage, Mo.), Randall A. Wood (Oronogo, Mo.) and John J. Brunnert (Carthage, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly is made in a fully automated assembly machine. A first foam rail is introduced into the assembly machine and glued to upper and lower substrate webs. A first string of pocketed springs is then glued to a side surface of the first foam rail betw...