US Patent Issued to Maquinas Sanmartin on June 2 for "Device for handling products in containers based on movement by elastic pressure on the top of the containers" (Brazilian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,236, issued on June 2, was assigned to Maquinas Sanmartin Ltda (Caxias do Sul, Brazil).

"Device for handling products in containers based on movement by elastic pressure on the top of the containers" was invented by Jose Bernardo Sanmartin (Barrio Cidade Nova, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present utility model refers to a device coupled to a robot or another moving system, exerting elastic pressure on the upper part over can containers, allowing to keep the products to be moved as fixed, displacing and turning them, defining their positions and organizing them for later palletization, enhanced with the introduction of loc...