US Patent Issued to SOUDRONIC on June 23 for "Apparatus for the production of tear-off lids" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,705, issued on June 23, was assigned to SOUDRONIC AG (Bergdietikon, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for the production of tear-off lids" was invented by Francois Chevalley (Winterthur, Switzerland), Tobias Haas (Stallikon, Switzerland) and Patrick Jaques (Pery, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (1) for the production of tear-off lids (27), in which a tear-off film (24) is sealed or glued onto the upper side thereof on a sealing surface (18) arranged around a removal opening (17). The apparatus includes a conveying device (13) for lid blanks (9), lid rings (8), and tear-off lids (27), as well as processing stations (14,...