ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,361, issued on March 18, was assigned to Norden Machinery AB (Kalmar, Sweden).
"Device for feeding carton stacks" was invented by Peter Johnsson (Ljungbyholm, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device for feeding stacks of standing flat-folded cartons to a receiving station, comprising a conveyor track having a flat bearing plane adapted to support the stacks, where the conveyor track comprises at least two rows of teeth where each row of teeth comprises a plurality of spaced apart teeth adapted to support the stacks of flat-folded cartons, where the teeth can be positioned in either an erected position or in a folded p...