ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,948, issued on March 31, was assigned to SACMI IMOLA S.C. (Imola, Italy).
"Apparatus for handling preforms" was invented by Matteo Zanelli (Imola, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for handling plastic preforms includes a feeding line for preforms that comprise a preform body and a preform mouth, a conditioning oven, a setdown device for the preforms being provided which is designed to feed the preforms to a transfer or blow-molding carousel, the conditioning oven being associated with a closed conveyance circuit which includes supporting elements to support respective preforms. The feeding line has a feeding device ...