It is the latter practice which Santoni is trying to counter

The duration of the design or model registration in Italy is 5 years and can be extended for one or more periods of 5 years up to a maximum of 25 years.” Sciacca likened the situation to Coca Cola registering the design of its now iconic Coke bottle in the early part of the last century.

Santoni and other leading machine builders such as Karl Mayer, Shima Seiki, Stoll and many others have all had problems with copycat machine builders in China directly copying their machines or building machines which are dressed up so that they can be passed off as being the same as the leading manufacturer’s products.

It is the latter practice which Santoni is trying to counter with design registration as well as patent protection.. The subject matter of design registration can be designs and models that are new and have individual character. Competitors could try to copy the contents but not the design of the bottle

Wherein the driving flat reed suppliers cylinder is an expanding cylinder formed by an expanding sleeve (104) and a exteal housing (103), and there is a variator (112) provided on the wall of the expanding sleeve, the expanding sleeve is installed on the output shaft of the decelerator, the exteal housing is installed on the expanding sleeve by a bolt, hence the distance between the expanding sleeve and the exteal housing can be reduced by screwing the bolt, to make the inside surface of the expanding sleeve smaller and fix tightly on the output shaft of the decelerator.