US Patent Issued to G.D SOCIETA' on March 18 for "Blank feeding unit for a packer machine and provided with a position reference element" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,360, issued on March 18, was assigned to G.D SOCIETA' PER AZIONI (Bologna, Italy).

"Blank feeding unit for a packer machine and provided with a position reference element" was invented by Salvatore Carboni (Bologna, Italy) and Antonio Vitali (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding unit to feed blanks in a packer machine having: a frame; a hopper for holding a stack of blanks, supported by the frame, and having a pick-up opening, through which one blank at a time can be retrieved from the stack; and a conveyor, supported by the frame, which moves the blanks along a moving path ending in the hopper. The feeding unit c...