US Patent Issued to Sonoco Development on March 24 for "Systems for high-speed application of paper-based end closures on composite containers" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,639, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sonoco Development Inc. (Hartsville, S.C.).

"Systems for high-speed application of paper-based end closures on composite containers" was invented by Trevor Price (North Canton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assembling a container and closure comprising an expanding collet which has a plurality of pivoting collet segments, each configured to simultaneously pivot radially outward about a pivot point. The collet comprises a lip that is engageable with the rim of the open end of the container and an angled tip positioned radially inward from the lip and shaped to press a counte...