Patent ID: 11911994
Assignee: RANPAK CORP.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 9:
10. A method for making a dunnage product from a two-ply stock material, comprising the following steps:
(a) laying open a stack of single-ply fan-folded sheet stock material to form two sub-stacks of sheet stock material;
(b) operating a dunnage conversion machine to simultaneously draw sheet stock material from both sub-stacks of sheet stock material, thereby providing a two-ply sheet stock material for conversion into a dunnage product,
wherein the stack of single-ply sheet stock material includes an upper portion and a lower portion, and the laying open step includes inverting the upper portion of the stack and displacing the upper portion from the lower portion to form the two sub-stacks of sheet stock material, and supporting the two sub-stacks of sheet stock material in inwardly-facing, oppositely-inclined orientations.