ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,393, issued on April 21, was assigned to BOBST MEX SA (Mex, Switzerland).
"Feeder with moving belt" was invented by Gael Jaquemet (Ropraz, Switzerland) and Arnaud Dekervel (Allinges, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a feeder module for discharging sheets into a converting machine. The feeder module comprises a movable discharge conveyor comprising a plurality of belt conveyors which are configured to move between a discharge position (DP) in which the belt conveyors are contacting the lowermost positioned sheet in the stack and discharges said sheet, and a clearing position (CP) in which the con...