MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514081826 A) filed by Sacmi Cooperativa Meccanici Imola Societa Cooperativa, Imola, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2025, for 'cutting device for capsules.'
Inventor(s) include Venturini, Matteo; and Penazzi, Davide.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A device for cutting a capsule of tethered type for closing a container is disclosed, in which the cutting device comprises a first set of horizontal blades that are coplanar with each other, a second set of horizontal blades that are coplanar with each other and spaced vertically apart from the horizontal blades of the first set, and a set of transverse blades arranged for joining together the horizontal blades so as to make two connecting straps between a tamper-evident band and a side wall of the capsule, in addition to another transverse blade that on one side terminates in an intermediate point of one of the horizontal blades and on the opposite side terminates in a free point, i.e. not adjacent to any blade, so that a transverse notch made by this other transverse blade ends with an end completely surrounded by a portion of capsules that is not destined to be broken."
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