ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,887, issued on June 17, was assigned to ISOPURE CORP. (Louisville, Ky.).
"Bag opening system" was invented by Kevin C. Gillespie (Louisville, Ky.), Zachary Patrick Ford (Louisville, Ky.) and Guillermo J. Cohen Freue (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and apparatus for opening and emptying a bag of material includes a base having a pair of opposed sides and a central aperture through which material may flow. The system includes a pair of opposed doors rotatably mounted on a pair of door shafts, the edges of the pair of opposed doors forming an opening and a plurality of piercing blades pivotally mounted to the bas...