ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,038, issued on July 28, was assigned to A.CELLI NONWOVENS S.P.A. (Porcari, Italy).
"Plant and method for labeling reels of web material" was invented by Giuseppe Acciari (Porcari, Italy) and Simone Bertuccelli (Porcari, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The plant includes at least one support (3) for the reels (B1, B2.. Bn) to be labeled, a label dispenser, a first labeling robot (11) adapted to take labels from the label dispenser and to insert them into the central openings of the reels arranged on the support, and a second handling robot (31) adapted to take the reels and to move them away from the support (3)."
The patent was...