US Patent Issued to BOBST MEX on Dec. 9 for "Positioning assembly and sheet material processing machine" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,091, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BOBST MEX SA (Mex, Switzerland).

"Positioning assembly and sheet material processing machine" was invented by Christophe De Gaillande (Les Monts-de-Corsier, Switzerland) and Marco Cardillo (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning assembly (30) for positioning a sheet material, especially at an entry portion of a sheet material processing machine, is described. It comprises a support beam (32) on which at least a portion of a sheet material to be positioned can be placed and a plurality of clamping fingers (38). The support beam (32) is coupled to a drive unit (60) confi...