US Patent Issued to RAUMASTER PAPER on Sept. 8 for "Overhead loading and unloading system, and method" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,074, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RAUMASTER PAPER OY (Rauma, Finland).

"Overhead loading and unloading system, and method" was invented by Jarmo Pohjolainen (Rauma, Finland) and Kaarlo Talvinen (Rauma, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overhead loading and unloading system (1) and method for handling pallets (2). The system comprises a pickup station (3), a loading station (4), a storage station (5) for storing protective sheets (S), and an automatically controlled linear gantry robot (6). The gantry robot comprises a robot arm (12) provided with a gripper (13) comprising forks (23) for handling the pallets and a vacuum...