US Patent Issued to Blanking Systems on March 25 for "Spot presser assembly" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,805, issued on March 25, was assigned to Blanking Systems Inc. (Grafton, Wis.).

"Spot presser assembly" was invented by Russell A. Kempka Jr. (Grafton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spot presser assembly is provided for supporting carton blanking scrap. The spot presser assembly includes an intermediate plunger telescopically received in a housing and a presser plunger telescopically received in the intermediate plunger. A first spring biases the intermediate plunger toward its extended position and a second spring biases the presser plunger toward its extended position."

The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2023, under Applica...