ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,419, issued on July 8, was assigned to R.A Jones & Co. (Covington, Ky.).
"Automatic magazine loader for supplying carton blanks to carton magazine" was invented by Joseph R. Schwab (Cincinnati), Richard Dean Rohret (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Stephen T. Hill (Bettendorf, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carton handling system for a carton blank magazine. The carton handling system includes a carriage assembly with a carton handling tool. The carriage assembly moves the carton handling tool in two axes of motion to receive a slug of carton blanks and to position the slug of carton blanks in the carton blank magazine. The carton handlin...