US Patent Issued to Sonoco Development on Aug. 12 for "Systems for the high-speed application of paper-based end closures on composite" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,573, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sonoco Development Inc. (Hartsville, S.C.).

"Systems for the high-speed application of paper-based end closures on composite" was invented by Trevor Price (North Canton, Ohio) and James J. Peoples (Newbury, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assembling a container and closure comprising an expanding collet which has a plurality of pivoting collet segments, each configured to simultaneously pivot radially outward about a pivot point. The collet comprises a lip that is engagable with the rim of the open end of the container and an angled tip positioned radially inward from the lip a...