US Patent Issued to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS on May 6 for "Device for conveying preforms and method for controlling such a device in order to angularly index the preforms in a reference position" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,976, issued on May 6, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-Sur-Mer, France).

"Device for conveying preforms and method for controlling such a device in order to angularly index the preforms in a reference position" was invented by Loic Bourvellec (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Stephane Morin (Octeville-sur-Mer, France) and Sebastien Fevre (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a device for conveying thermoplastic material preforms for use in a heat treatment oven and such a device for conveying preforms including at least one principal wheel and one auxiliary wheel at least one of w...