US Patent Issued to Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier-und Wellpappenwerke & Co. on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for processing a length of padding material" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,067, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier-und Wellpappenwerke & Co. (Bielefeld, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for processing a length of padding material" was invented by Bastian Schalk (Detmold, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for processing a cushioning material strand, which is produced by a cushioning conversion machine from a web-shaped stock material (e.g. a roll or a leporello stack, for example of paper), the cushioning material strand is wound around a winding center into a cushioning material winding and is compressed during winding into the cushioning material winding." ...