US Patent Issued to R.A JONES & Co. on Feb. 10 for "Packaging device for packaging articles into boxes" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,451, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to R.A JONES & Co.

"Packaging device for packaging articles into boxes" was invented by Andrea Biondi (Bologna, Italy), Luca Cavazza (Bologna, Italy), Ivanoe Bertuzzi (Bologna, Italy) and Enrico Campagnoli (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging device for packaging articles into boxes including a mandrel, a handling unit, a first retaining device, and a closing unit. The mandrel is adapted to be wrapped at least partially by panels of a blank to form a partially closed box. The handling unit is configured to move said mandrel along a feed trajectory. The first retaining device ...