ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,879, issued on April 21, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).
"Method for automatically positioning ramps in a preform heating station" was invented by Loic Bourvellec (Octeville-sur-Mer, France) and Herve Pasquier (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for automatically positioning ramps in a station for the heating of preforms. The method includes acquiring an image of a preform traveling along a slot delimited by a pair of ramps, where at least one of the ramps is transversely mobile to vary the width of the slot (56) and where a motorized device transversely mo...