US Patent Issued to Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. on May 6 for "Method and device for feeding articles" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,404, issued on May 6, was assigned to Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.p.A. (Bologna, Italy).

"Method and device for feeding articles" was invented by Francesco Carlino (Bologna, Italy), Ivan Galvanetto (Bologna, Italy), Maria Livia Melchionda (Bologna, Italy) and Domenico Polidori (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for feeding articles includes the steps of: feeding transversally, by a first conveyor, a succession of parallel rows of articles to a transfer area; moving longitudinally, using a second conveyor, a succession of rows of articles from the transfer area; sending at least one row o...