US Patent Issued to MIRKA on Feb. 10 for "Method and apparatus for producing endless abrasive articles and a produced abrasive article" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,879, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MIRKA LTD (Jepua, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for producing endless abrasive articles and a produced abrasive article" was invented by Goran Hoglund (Nykarleby, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing endless abrasive articles (100) includes providing a mandrel coil (200), which comprises a first complete turn (B0A) formed of an endless mandrel belt (B0), feeding the endless mandrel belt (B0) to an input end (IN0) of the mandrel coil (200) and unwinding the mandrel belt (B0) from an output end (OUT0) of the mandrel coil (200) so as to move the surface of the first comp...