US Patent Issued to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTMOMATICHE on July 29 for "Apparatus and method for automatically producing tubular elements" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,770, issued on July 29, was assigned to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTMOMATICHE S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

"Apparatus and method for automatically producing tubular elements" was invented by Antonio Caporale (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy) and Luca Galletti (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for automatically producing tubular elements to make smoking articles and/or products for food use includes at least one forming unit configured to form the tubular elements starting from shaped flat sheets. The forming unit includes one or more forming devices which are moved by movement means along a work...