US Patent Issued to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS on Sept. 2 for "Device and method for forming a container by folding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,056, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

"Device and method for forming a container by folding" was invented by Damien Cirette (Corcelles-les-Citeaux, France) and Arnaud Prieur (Corcelles-les-Citeaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the forming of a container by folding a cardboard sheet with at least vertical flaps, using a forming device and a forming method. Such a device comprises an upstream conveyor driving said cardboard sheet in a direction of travel, a downstream conveyor, means for folding the vertical flaps, said folding means being sit...