ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,710, issued on May 20.
"Method and device for automatic formation of bundles of metal laminations" was invented by Cesare Librici (Savona, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically forming bundles of metal laminations, adapted for armatures of electrical machines or the like, by automatic precision dosing of a lamination bundle produced by picking up and separating a preset number of laminations, includes grabbing, at one end of a lamination stack, a preset number of laminations; separating the number of laminations of the bundle from the lamination stack by axially moving the bundle away from the lamination sta...