US Patent Issued to IMS Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Converting machine with material strip storage buffer" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,258, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to IMS Technologies S.p.A. (Calcinate, Italy).

"Converting machine with material strip storage buffer" was invented by Maurizio Armitano (Calcinate, Italy), Isidoro Bianchi (Calcinate, Italy) and Daniele Rota (Calcinate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converting machine, or a machine for winding or unwinding a strip of material on coils or for converting coils of a material into smaller coils, is configured to process a delicate material. The machine includes a loading unit for loading a strip of material into the machine, an accumulation unit for accumulating the strip being processed, an...