US Patent Issued to Tebulo Industrial Automation on July 21 for "Assembly, strap guiding device and method for providing a bulky item with a strap" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,514, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tebulo Industrial Automation B.V. (Warmenhuizen, Netherlands).

"Assembly, strap guiding device and method for providing a bulky item with a strap" was invented by Johan Spaans (Warmenhuizen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for applying a strap around the outer circumferential surface of a bulky item. The assembly includes a binding zone configured to receive the bulky item; a channel defined along a guiding surface of a strap guiding device that surrounds the binding zone and is configured to guide strap material around the bulky item; and a binding apparatus with a bindi...