US Patent Issued to A. G. Stacker on July 15 for "Bundle breaker having movable platen and kit for retrofitting bundle breaker with movable platen" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,175, issued on July 15, was assigned to A. G. Stacker Inc. (Weyers Cave, Va.).

"Bundle breaker having movable platen and kit for retrofitting bundle breaker with movable platen" was invented by Jerry Blosser (Crimora, Va.), Randall Donn Senger (Mount Sidney, Va.), Joseph Wunder (Lexington, Va.) and Eric Stempihar (Rockingham, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bundle breaker including first and second platen assemblies mounted above upstream and downstream breaking supports with first and second actuators for moving the platen assemblies toward and away from the breaking supports and a third actuator for moving the downstream break...