US Patent Issued to BOTTERO on Feb. 3 for "Configurable gob guiding unit provided with deflectors for a glass articles forming section" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,094, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BOTTERO S.P.A. (Cuneo, Italy).

"Configurable gob guiding unit provided with deflectors for a glass articles forming section" was invented by Danilo Chiavassa (Cuneo, Italy), Marcello Ostorero (Cuneo, Italy), Ivan Giaccone (Cuneo, Italy), Paolo Cavallera (Cuneo, Italy) and Marco Tecchio (Cuneo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a section for forming glass articles, provided with a forming mould, the glass gobs are fed into the cavities of the forming mould via a configurable gob guiding unit. The gob guiding unit has a support structure designed for a maximum number of cavities that can be u...