US Patent Issued to Signode Industrial Group on Sept. 23 for "Strapping tool with energy-release feature" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,966, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Strapping tool with energy-release feature" was invented by Benjamin Hubschmid (Auenstein, Switzerland), Yannick Fischbacher (Fahrweid, Switzerland) and Andreas Keller (Birr, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a strapping tool with a scaling assembly including a die assembly and a camshaft. The camshaft includes a cam that engages a cam follower of the die assembly. The cam is shaped so rotation of the camshaft during a scaling cycle causes the cam to force the die assembly to pivot from a home position to a ...