ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,023, issued on June 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS LTD. (Kobe, Japan).
"Slitter device, slitter-head positioning method, and box making machine" was invented by Yasunari Suzuki (Hyogo, Japan), Masayoshi Tanchi (Hyogo, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Nadachi (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slitter device includes an upper rotary shaft and a lower rotary shaft that are supported so as to be able to rotate. An upper slitter head that is supported by the upper rotary shaft so as to be able to rotate therewith. A lower slitter head that is supported by the lower rotary shaft so as to be able to rotate ...