US Patent Issued to Meccanotecnica on June 17 for "Leveler device of signatures on movable saddle of bookbinding sewing machine with gas jet" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,439, issued on June 17, was assigned to Meccanotecnica S.p.A. (Gazzaniga, Italy).

"Leveler device of signatures on movable saddle of bookbinding sewing machine with gas jet" was invented by Marco Madaschi (Torre de' Roveri, Italy) and Paolo Alberto Cornolti (Villa di Serio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leveler device (200) is proposed for use in a bookbinding sewing machine (100) adapted to sew signatures (115) into book blocks (155) with one or more sewing threads (415). The leveler device (200) is used to level each signature (115) loaded onto amovable saddle (150). The leveler device (200) has at least one inlet (215) fo...