US Patent Issued to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE on June 3 for "Filling apparatus and method for automatically filling containers" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,455, issued on June 3, was assigned to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia (BO), Italy).

"Filling apparatus and method for automatically filling containers" was invented by Fiorenzo Draghetti (Medicina, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Filling apparatus (10) and method for automatically filling containers (100) for smoking articles with a desired metered quantity of incoherent material (M) of the fibrous type. The apparatus (10) comprises a first and a second filling station (A2, A4) each having one or more delivery devices (22) and being configured to deliver respectively a first and a second quantity...