US Patent Issued to Oskar Dilo Maschinenfabrik on April 15 for "Needle machine and method for equipping and operating a needle machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,055, issued on April 15, was assigned to Oskar Dilo Maschinenfabrik KG (Eberbach, Germany).

"Needle machine and method for equipping and operating a needle machine" was invented by Johann Philipp Dilo (Eberbach, Germany) and Niklas Kappes (Eberbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle machine has a needle bar having a plurality of needles, a holding-down device for holding-down a textile fabric structure, and a support device for supporting the textile fabric structure. A monitoring device is configured to monitor the positioning of the plurality of needles relative to the holding-down device or to the support device."

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