US 12,202,225 B2
Dunnage conversion machine, method, and product with a polygonal cross-section
Robert C. Cheich, Independence, OH (US); and Dennis Wagner, Painesville, OH (US)
Assigned to Ranpak Corp., Concord Township, OH (US)
Filed by Ranpak Corp., Concord Township, OH (US)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/058,558.
Application 18/058,558 is a division of application No. 16/491,994, granted, now 11,541,621, previously published as PCT/US2018/020667, filed on Feb. 28, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/464,646, filed on Feb. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0109548 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. B31D 5/00 (2017.01); B65D 81/05 (2006.01)
CPC B31D 5/0047 (2013.01) [B31D 5/0052 (2013.01); B31D 2205/0047 (2013.01); B31D 2205/0058 (2013.01); B31D 2205/0064 (2013.01); B65D 81/05 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dunnage product made from a sheet stock material formed into a tube having at least three planar sides giving the tube a polygonal cross-sectional shape, where the planar sides of the tube are crumpled and adjacent planar sides are joined at respective vertices of the polygonal cross-sectional shape, and where lateral edge portions adjacent lateral edges of the sheet stock material are connected together to form a ridge disposed along one of the vertices,
wherein each lateral edge of the sheet stock material is turned inward to form an inwardly extending tab, where each of the lateral edge portions includes the inwardly extending tab.