US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on March 3 for "Elastic contact element for wrapping a sheet around a group of segments" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,211, issued on March 3, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Elastic contact element for wrapping a sheet around a group of segments" was invented by Gabriele Benni (Sasso Marconi, Italy), Fulvio Pastore (Bologna, Italy), Marco Esposti (Casalecchio di Reno, Italy) and Giuliano Gamberini (Crevalcore, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrapping device 1 for wrapping a sheet 3 around a group 5 of segments comprises a wrapping conveyor 7 and a contact element 25. The wrapping conveyor 7 comprises a conveyor surface 9 for receiving the group 5 of segments. The contact element 25 provides a counter sur...