Patents by Inventor Giorgio Tassi

Giorgio Tassi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus for cutting and applying a tearing strip to a packaging film
    Patent number: 6557609
    Abstract: At least one transverse blade (19) is mounted on one end of the body of the pressing device (12) which cyclically acts on the packaging film (1) so as to fix it to an underlying tearing strip (7) which is directed towards the film with an adhesive surface and is supported by a conveyor belt (3), said blade (19) cutting and dividing up to the required dimension the said tearing strip from the continuous tape from which the strip itself is obtained, while the said belt acts as a cutter counter-piece. Auxiliary blades (21, 121) are also mounted laterally and parallel on one end of the body of the pressing device, said blades (21, 121), during the active working phase of the said pressing device, interfering with the edge of the packaging film in order to form, on the latter, incisions located on the sides of the front gripping end of the tearing strip, in order to facilitate tearing of the packaging when the said strip (7) is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: BFB S.p.A.
    Inventors: Fabio Fini, Giorgio Tassi