US Patent Issued to SANKO MACHINERY on Jan. 27 for "Multiline vertical automatic filling and packaging machine and hopper" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,241, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SANKO MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Multiline vertical automatic filling and packaging machine and hopper" was invented by Masatoshi Hosokawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic filling and packaging machine includes a hopper A configured to supply a filling material A and a hopper B configured to supply a filling material B. The hopper A includes: an upwardly open receiving part; and a first branch part and a second branch part, which are bifurcated from a lower portion of the upwardly open receiving part. The first branch part and the second branch part allow...