US Patent Issued to PRO FORM on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus and method for applying in an automatic way foam elements on a die cutter" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,904, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PRO FORM S.R.L. (Bergamo, Italy).

"Apparatus and method for applying in an automatic way foam elements on a die cutter" was invented by Alberto Luigi Rossini (Bergamo, Italy) and Zivota Milic (Bergamo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for automatically applying, without the intervention of an operator, rubber elements on a die-cutter during the manufacturing step thereof. The apparatus comprises a manipulator, preferably a robotic arm, and a needle gripper. The gripper withdraws the water jet pre-cut rubber elements from a sheet with double-sided adhesive tape, and...