US Patent Issued to SMI S.P.A on Dec. 30 for "Valve assembly for blowing or draw-blowing bottles made of polymer material" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,764, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SMI S.P.A (Bergamo, Italy).

"Valve assembly for blowing or draw-blowing bottles made of polymer material" was invented by Angelo Nava (Bergamo, Italy) and Damiano Pesenti (Bergamo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a valve assembly for blowing or draw-blowing preforms made of polymer material, applicable to a machine suitable to transform said preforms into bottles or containers.In particular, the invention relates to a valve assembly (1) comprising a control block (2) and a blowing block (3), in which the blowing block (3) comprises an outer body (50) having...