US Patent Issued to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE on March 25 for "Feed apparatus and method for automatically feeding casings for smoking articles" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,222, issued on March 25, was assigned to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

"Feed apparatus and method for automatically feeding casings for smoking articles" was invented by Antonio Caporale (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy) and Adriano Di Monte (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feed apparatus for automatically feeding casings for smoking articles toward a transport member includes a feed unit disposed in a position above the transport member and configured to temporarily support the casings before they are fed to the transport member below, and a conveyor unit interposed b...