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Article: Wisconsin Inventors Develop Web Product Packaging Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 8, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 8 -- James R. Michler and Thomas J. Palokangas, both of Ashland, Wis., and Thomas W. Schneider of Grand View, Wis., have developed an apparatus for wrapping web products.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for wrapping stacks of web product with wrap web material supplied from a supply roll. The apparatus includes a conveyor for supporting and moving the stacks to be wrapped along a conveying path, a drive assembly operable to receive wrap material from the supply roll and positively feed the wrap material to the conveying path, and a wrapping assembly for manipulating the wrap material around the ...