US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Dec. 30 for "Cut-off system for container carrier applicating machine" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,262, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Cut-off system for container carrier applicating machine" was invented by Jimmy D. Whitten (Westminster, S.C.), George Moreland (Greer, S.C.) and Brian Williams (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for applying container carriers to unitize a plurality of containers. A supply of container carriers are provided in connected sticks of two or more container carriers. An applicating drum is configured to accept a single container carrier stick from a queue and provide the container carrier stick to a supply of ...