US Patent Issued to Signode Industrial Group on July 21 for "Random case sealer with case lifter" (Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,516, issued on July 21, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Random case sealer with case lifter" was invented by Bryce J. Fox (Honesdale, Pa.), William J. Menta (West Wyoming, Pa.), Joseph E. Lininger (Union Grove, Wis.), Paul Szadziewicz (Elmhurst, Ill.) and Drew Wenrich (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a random case sealer including a case lifter configured to lift a case out of engagement with a lower drive element 115 (such as a drive belt) of the case sealer as the case reaches a holding position beneath the top-head assembly 400 and, afterw...