US Patent Issued to M.E.P. MACCHINE ELETTRONICHE PIEGATRICI on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus and method for bending elongated metal products" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,572, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to M.E.P. MACCHINE ELETTRONICHE PIEGATRICI S.P.A. (Reana del Rojale, Italy).

"Apparatus and method for bending elongated metal products" was invented by Giorgio Del Fabro (Udine, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (10) for bending elongated metal products (100) comprising a feed device (13), which moves the products (100) along a feed axis (X) and a first bending unit (15) provided with one or more pins (20, 22), the latter distinct from each other and configured to bend one or more products (100) at a time at in correspondence with a determinate bending zone (BZ)."

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