ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,673, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG (Meerbusch, Germany).
"Method and device for forming stacks of packages" was invented by Holger Vetter (Korschenbroich, Germany) and Wolfgang Reichel (Willich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for forming stacks of packages by stacking infusion bags is disclosed. In one example, the method includes removing an individual infusion bag from a conveying stretch, on which individual infusion bags are fed, to a removal station. The individual infusion bags, guided by a vertically movable push-in device in a stacking stroke of said pu...