US Patent Issued to Stolle Machinery on March 25 for "Forming assembly for bodymaker and bodymaker including same" (American, British, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,619, issued on March 25, was assigned to Stolle Machinery Co. LLC (Centennial, Colo.).

"Forming assembly for bodymaker and bodymaker including same" was invented by Karl S. Fleischer (Denver), Ian Kenneth Scholey (Barnsley, Great Britain), Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro (Brasilia/Brazil, Brazil) and Sylvan Mario Praturlon (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forming assembly for use in a can bodymaker includes a stationary assembly and a moving assembly movably coupled to the stationary assembly. The stationary assembly and the moving assembly are a unified assembly that is structured to be selectively coupled to a mounting...