ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,454, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ferrum Packaging AG (Schafisheim, Switzerland).
"Feeding device for sealer" was invented by Philippe Derendinger (uml a+ee gendorf, Switzerland) and Jorn Winkelmann (Barmstedt, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device for gassing a container and a lid in a gassing area during feeding to a sealer includes a container feeder for feeding the container through the gassing area along a first feed path, and a lid feeder arranged on the container feeder such that a lid can be moved through the gassing area along a second feed path to the container and can be placed on the container at...