US Patent Issued to Max on Oct. 21 for "Binding machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,794, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Binding machine" was invented by Osamu Itagaki (Tokyo), Akira Kasahara (Tokyo) and Norihiro Nagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a curl guide configured to curl the wire fed by the wire feeding unit around an object to be bound, a binding unit including a twisting shaft provided to be rotatable around a predetermined axis, and a gripping part provided at one end side of the twisting shaft, wherein the gripping part is configured to grip the wire curled by the curl guide and the twisting shaft...