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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Patrick R Lancaster, III, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lantech, Inc., Louisville, KY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53399 ; 53410 ; 531397 ; 53587 ; 53588 ;
Abstract
A load is stretch wrapped with a sheet of stretch wrap packaging material dispensed from a stretch wrap packaging material dispenser. A cornerboard is attached to the sheet of stretch wrap packaging material and transported to the load with the stretch wrap packaging material. Relative rotation is provided between the stretch wrap packaging material dispenser and the load to wrap the stretch wrap packaging material around the load. The cornerboard is placed on the corner of the load with the stretch wrap packaging material and bent from a flat configuration to a bent configuration around a corner of the load with the stretch wrap packaging material.