ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,068, issued on Sept. 23, 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 (F) for picking up the reels configured to receive a stack (2) of overlapping cardboard reels (1), a station (U) for unwinding of the reels, and handling means (D) for moving the reels (1) along a predetermined path. The means (D) for moving the reels comprise pneumatic means intended to pressuri...