US Patent Issued to Max on June 3 for "Binding machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,134, issued on June 3, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Binding machine" was invented by Osamu Itagaki (Tokyo), Takeshi Morijiri (Tokyo), Tatsunori Sera (Tokyo), Takuya Chigira (Tokyo), Kazuhisa Takeuchi (Tokyo) and Sadayoshi Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It provides a reinforcing bar binding machine capable of surely wrapping and binding a wire to a binding object. The reinforcing bar binding machine includes a magazine in which two wires are housed so as to be drawable, a curl guide unit which winds the arranged wires around the reinforcing bar, by the operation of feeding the parallel wires at the curl guide ...