US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on May 5 for "Unwinding system and method for unwinding a tire component from a stock reel and for outputting said tire component in a transport direction" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,643, issued on May 5, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Unwinding system and method for unwinding a tire component from a stock reel and for outputting said tire component in a transport direction" was invented by Ruben Visser (Epe, Netherlands), Antonie Slots (Epe, Netherlands) and Herman Sebastiaan Scherpenhuizen (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an unwinding system for unwinding a tire component from a stock reel and outputting said tire component in a transport direction, wherein the unwinding system comprises a reel station, a conveyor and a transfer device, wherein the c...