US Patent Issued to ATS-TANNER BANDING SYSTEMS on Jan. 13 for "Machine for gently banding sensitive goods" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,390, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ATS-TANNER BANDING SYSTEMS AG (Switzerland).

"Machine for gently banding sensitive goods" was invented by Alois Tanner (Fahrwangen, Switzerland) and Christoph Kunzli (Reinach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A banding machine includes a band guide, a band drive, a rotary encoder and a controller. The band guide includes a distance sensor. With the distance sensor, distances to a packaged good lying within the band guide can be determined. With the band drive, a band can be inserted into the band guide and retracted. The rotary encoder can be used to detect a retracted length of the b...