ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,969, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HAVER & BOECKER OHG (Oelde, Germany).
"Packing machine and method for operation" was invented by Christian Westarp (Oelde, Germany) and Rene Mackel (Diestedde, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packing machine for filling product into bags including a bag supply, a filling module with a filling nozzle and a bag removal, wherein between the bag supply and the bag removal a transfer device is provided, which is suitable and configured to feed an empty bag from the bag supply to the filling nozzle and to feed the filled bag from the filling nozzle to the bag removal. In a method for opera...