US Patent Issued to Max on June 23 for "Binding machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,707, issued on June 23, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Binding machine" was invented by Akira Kasahara (Tokyo), Osamu Itagaki (Tokyo), Ichiro Kusakari (Tokyo) and Takeshi Morijiri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wire fed or pulled back from the reel by the feeding unit can be properly restricted. The invention relates to a binding machine (2) having a feeding unit (16) for feeding out a wire (3) from a reel (12) provided in a housing unit (11). With respect to the entering route (81) of the wire (3) when the wire (3) drawn out from the reel (12) by the feeding unit (16) is guided to the feeding unit (83), the first ...