US Patent Issued to Pregis Innovative Packaging on Feb. 11 for "Crumpling mechanism for creating dunnage" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,892, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Pregis Innovative Packaging LLC (Bannockburn, Ill.).

"Crumpling mechanism for creating dunnage" was invented by Thomas D. Wetsch (St. Charles, Ill.) and Robert Tegel (Huntley, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dunnage crumpling apparatus is provided having first and second entry-side crumpling members and first and second exit-side crumpling members. The first and second entry-side crumpling members define an entry therebetween. The first and second exit-side crumpling members define an exit therebetween that is disposed along the longitudinal path downstream of the entry. A crumpling zone ...