ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,576, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OPTIMA pharma GmbH (Schwabisch Hall, Germany).
"Feeding device and method for feeding small parts" was invented by Bernd Laukenmann (Crailsheim, Germany), Fabienne Lydia Bernatek (Schwabisch Hall, Germany) and Florian Weippert (Schwabisch Hall, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a feeding device (1) for feeding small parts, in particular closure elements, comprising a vibrating spiral conveyor (20) having an outlet (200), a feed rail (20), which is arranged downstream of the outlet in the feed direction, and a vibratory drive (201, 211, 221), wherein, by means of th...