US Patent Issued to SICA on Feb. 10 for "Wrapper machine for packaging flexible articles with an elongated shape, in particular flexible hoses" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,452, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SICA S.P.A. (Alfonsine, Italy).

"Wrapper machine for packaging flexible articles with an elongated shape, in particular flexible hoses" was invented by Marco Secchiari (Alfonsine, Italy), Maurizio De Vita (Alfonsine, Italy), Giovanni Vecchi (Alfonsine, Italy) and Andrea Gasperoni (Alfonsine, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrapper machine has a coiling station for forming a coil of a flexible article with an elongated shape, a packaging station for wrapping a stretch film around the coil, and a transfer unit for transferring the coil from the coiling station to a packaging station, where...