ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,214, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lamiflex Group AB (Nykoping, Sweden).
"Edge protection mounting device in a system for sheet coil packaging" was invented by John Charles Kennison (Grand Bay, Ala.), Aaron Kenneth Kitzmiller (Fort Loramie, Ohio) and Steven Thomas Dircksen (Minster, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge protection mounting device 200 is provided, comprising an edge protection material guide 300, configured to feed out and guide edge protection material 400 into a correct position along an outer edge of a sheet coil 116 from the side of an end of the sheet coil 116. Further, a system 100 for sheet coil pack...