Abstract: A system and method for packaging pine straw and a packaged mass of pine straw made therefrom, the method including providing an electronically-controlled system configured for packaging pine straw, the system including system logic that controls conveying, fluffing, cleaning, compressing and packaging of the pine straw, and using the system to compress a mass of pine straw into a rectangular mass of pine straw and enclosing the rectangular mass of pine straw within a flexible plastic sheet thereby forming a substantially rectangular packaged mass of compressed pine straw.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 16, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 20, 2023
Assignee:
SWIFT STRAW II, LLC
Inventors:
Matthew William Lowe, Wade Haralson Goetz, Jr.
Abstract: A system and method for packaging pine straw and a packaged mass of pine straw made therefrom, the method including providing an electronically-controlled system configured for packaging pine straw, the system including system logic that controls conveying, fluffing, cleaning, compressing and packaging of the pine straw, and using the system to compress a mass of pine straw into a rectangular mass of pine straw and enclosing the rectangular mass of pine straw within a flexible plastic sheet thereby forming a substantially rectangular packaged mass of compressed pine straw.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 22, 2019
Date of Patent:
June 8, 2021
Assignee:
Swift Straw II, LLC
Inventors:
Matthew William Lowe, Wade Haralson Goetz, Jr.