ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,992, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).
"Stretch-wrapping machine with pre-stretch rollers" was invented by Pekka Mustonen (Turku, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a stretch-wrapping machine with at least three pre-stretch rollers sized, positioned, and otherwise configured to minimize necking and slippage as the film is drawn through and stretched by the pre-stretch rollers before the film is applied to the load."
The patent was filed on May 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/864,766.
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