US Patent Issued to Signode Industrial Group on Feb. 10 for "Strapping machine with a welding assembly having a leading-strap-end guide" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,453, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Strapping machine with a welding assembly having a leading-strap-end guide" was invented by Stefan Ries (Bindlach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping machine with a welding assembly including a counter-pressure plate and a heating element that cooperate to attach two overlapping portions of strap to each other to form a loop of strap around a load. The welding assembly includes two strap clamps that clamp a leading strap end of the strap at various points in time during a strapping...