US Patent Issued to M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici on July 15 for "Device for picking up bars and corresponding method" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,041, issued on July 15, was assigned to M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S.P.A. (Reana del Rojale, Italy).

"Device for picking up bars and corresponding method" was invented by Giorgio Del Fabro (Udine, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pick-up device (10) configured to selectively pick up and extract at least one bar (B) from a plurality of bars (B) disposed on a feed plane (111) and to position it on a delivery plane (12), said pick-up device (10) comprising a support arm (11) terminally provided with a pick-up head (12). The present invention also concerns an apparatus (100) for feeding bars (B) comprising the device (10...