US Patent Issued to NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES on Oct. 28 for "Top forming part crease applying mechanism for paper container top forming device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,112, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Top forming part crease applying mechanism for paper container top forming device" was invented by Hideki Okude (Tokyo) and Takaharu Noda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A top forming part creasing mechanism for forming a top portion of a paper container, the top forming part creasing mechanism includes: a first creasing device (4) that valley-folds, along horizontal folding lines (111, 113), a right side panel (112) and a left side panel (114) of a carton blank (126) fitted onto a mandrel so as to spread out the right side panel and the left sid...