US Patent Issued to LECTRA on June 30 for "Suction cutting conveyor for an automatic blade cutting machine for sheet materials" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,991, issued on June 30, was assigned to LECTRA (Paris).

"Suction cutting conveyor for an automatic blade cutting machine for sheet materials" was invented by Didier Chabirand-Garconnet (Cestas, France), Regis Lallement (Cestas, France) and Thierry Geoffroy (Pessac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction cutting conveyor of an automatic blade cutting machine for sheet materials, including a plurality of cutting supports rigidly connected to a drive mechanism driven along rectilinear and curvilinear trajectories, each cutting support including a plurality of bristles each having a foot rigidly connected to a sole and a head op...