US Patent Issued to MIDACO on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for delivering workpieces to and from a machine table" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,113, issued on April 15, was assigned to MIDACO Corp. (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).

"Method and apparatus for delivering workpieces to and from a machine table" was invented by Michael P Cayley Jr. (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Vincent P. Storelli (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for delivering a workpiece to and from a machine table. The apparatus includes a rotatable plate and a pallet. The workpiece is detachably mountable to the pallet. The rotatable plate is movable with respect to the pallet. The pallet is movable along a pallet carriage. A screw is movably mounted within the screw housing and the screw ho...