ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,391, issued on April 21, was assigned to BOBST MEX SA (Mex, Switzerland).
"Sheet processing machine" was invented by Raul Martinez (Cugy, Switzerland) and Paul Hornick (Vallorbe, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a sheet processing machine with an alignment plate at the input. The sheets are piled against the plate, and during each machine cycle, the bottommost sheet is extracted and delivered to a gripper bar of the machine. The alignment plate can move precisely longitudinally and diagonally to adjust the position and the skew of the sheet for correct positioning in the gripper bar. The alignment p...