US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on Nov. 3 for "Method and splicer for splicing a leading end and a trailing end of a tire component" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,791, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Netherlands).

"Method and splicer for splicing a leading end and a trailing end of a tire component" was invented by Willem Marinus Van Beek (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a splicer for splicing a leading end and a trailing end of a tire component together. The method includes the steps of: a) splicing the leading end and the trailing end together along a splice path extending across the tire component, in a splice direction from a first side of the tire component towards a second side of the tire component opposite to the first side; and b) prior ...