Patents by Inventor Marcello Vecchi

Marcello Vecchi 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).

  • Binding device and method of binding
    Patent number: 6739817
    Abstract: Binding device wherein a support structure (2) houses a pack of sheets provided with through-holes (133) aligned along a rectilinear edge of the pack. The structure moreover carries a binding member comprising a flat sheet-like rectangular member (100) showing, along a side thereof (100a), a plurality of flexible tongues (107) arranged combwise and a closure member (110) extending along the side (100a). The binding device is provided with a bending wall (70) mobile with respect to the pack and adapted to realize the bending of tongues portions projecting from the pack on an end flat member forming a first face of the same pack. A pressing device (90) further realises bending of the closure member (110) to arrange the closure member (110) on bent tongues (107) and on the end flat member (130b) thereby forming a bound fascicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Prima S.r.l.
    Inventors: Francesco Rebora, Marcello Vecchi
  • Binding device and method of binding
    Publication number: 20020051696
    Abstract: Binding device wherein a support structure (2) houses a pack of sheets provided with through-holes (133) aligned along a rectilinear edge of the pack. The structure moreover carries a binding member comprising a flat sheet-like rectangular member (100) showing, along a side thereof (100a), a plurality of flexible tongues (107) arranged combwise and a closure member (110) extending along the side (100a). The binding device is provided with a bending wall (70) mobile with respect to the pack and adapted to realize the bending of tongues portions projecting from the pack on an end flat member forming a first face of the same pack. A pressing device (90) further realizes bending of the closure member (110) to arrange the closure member (110) on bent tongues (107) and on the end flat member (130b) thereby forming a bound fascicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Francesco Rebora, Marcello Vecchi
  • Binding machine, particularly for index-books, notebooks and the like
    Patent number: 6074152
    Abstract: A binding machine, particularly for index-books, notebooks and the like, comprising a section for binding sheets by means of a plurality of mutually aligned disks having a double-T cross-section; means suitable to arrange a plurality of sheets stacked with an edge portion at the binding section; and presser means which are suitable to act on the edge portion of the sheets in order to insert the disks in seats formed in the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: PRIMA S.r.l.
    Inventor: Marcello Vecchi