US Patent Issued to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE on Dec. 23 for "Apparatus for making capsules and relative method for making capsules" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,262, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

"Apparatus for making capsules and relative method for making capsules" was invented by Enrico Davide Spreafico (Garlate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for making capsules, includes: a receiving station for receiving capsule bodies having bottom and side walls defining a filling cavity with an opening opposite the bottom and a flange surrounding the opening. A forming station for making sealing rings includes a device for feeding a sheet from a reel. A coupling station couples each ring to a capsule bo...