ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,565, issued on July 21, was assigned to Interroll Holding AG (Sant'Antonino, Switzerland).
"Transfer device" was invented by Siegmund Dudek (Huckelhoven, Germany) and Christian Hagmaier (Huckelhoven, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transfer device, adapted to take over a conveyed material at a takeover area from an upstream conveying section, convey the conveyed material at least temporarily within a conveying area in a conveying direction and, and selectively transfer the conveyed material in the direction of a transfer area arranged laterally in the conveying direction, the transfer device including a plurality of belt carri...