ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,299, issued on July 29.
"System for deflecting an intermediate item in a folding unit" was invented by Sanjay Madhav Dandekar (Pune, India) and Datta Hari Deshpande (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism (100a or 100b) for preventing the folding of an intermediate item (300) in a knife folder (200) is disclosed. The mechanism (100a or 100b) includes a deflector (50) that is movable between a non-operating position (50a) and an operating position (50b). When the intermediate item is moving on the folding rollers (230a and 230b) of the knife folder (200), the deflector (50) is moved to the operating position (50b) for ...