US Patent Issued to IG SPECIALS on April 7 for "System for separating bulk-supplied plant-bulbs and method for transporting and spacing plant-bulbs" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,138, issued on April 7, was assigned to IG SPECIALS B.V. (Gameren, Netherlands).

"System for separating bulk-supplied plant-bulbs and method for transporting and spacing plant-bulbs" was invented by Wim Struijk (Delwijnen, Netherlands), Wim Van Der El (Ameide, Netherlands), Bastiaan Ophorst (Gameren, Netherlands) and Wim Van Der Meijden (Gameren, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System (1) for separating bulk-supplied plant-bulbs into a single-file stream of spaced plant-bulbs and a method for transporting and spacing objects. The system comprises a bulk-conveyor (2) for conveying a plurality of plant-bulbs as a bulk mass; ...