US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on June 16 for "Transfer wheel, transfer device and method for transferring a strip to a tire building drum" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,410, issued on June 16, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Transfer wheel, transfer device and method for transferring a strip to a tire building drum" was invented by Mattheus Jacobus Kaagman (Epe, Netherlands) and Ruben Matthias Visser (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transfer device and a method for transferring a strip to a tire building drum, wherein the transfer device includes a transfer wheel that is rotatable about a wheel axis, a base for supporting the transfer wheel and a drive for moving the transfer wheel relative to the base in an application direction perpendicular to ...