ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,542, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUTURA S.P.A. (Capannori, Italy).
"Plant and process for handling cardboard reels" was invented by Fabio Perini (Viareggio, Italy) and Andrea Catalini (Porcari, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for handling cardboard reels to feed machines that produce cardboard tubes, comprising a station (P) for picking up the superimposed cardboard reels (1), a reel unwinding station (1) comprising at least one unwinding unit (UU) capable of supporting the reels to be unwound, in the unwinding station (U) being also provided splicing means configured to splice a tail portion (TY) of a reel (1 Y) b...