US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Nov. 11 for "Stencil printer cover having movable door with closing feature" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,178, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Stencil printer cover having movable door with closing feature" was invented by Patsy A. Mattero (Smithfield, R.I.) and Kenneth J. King (East Freetown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover of a stencil printer is hingedly mounted to a frame, and movable between a closed and open positions. The cover includes an elongate opening formed therein and a movable door configured to selectively close the elongate opening. The elongate opening is sized to enable the stencil and/or a tooling tray to pass through. A controller is configured to control mo...