US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on Sept. 22 for "Applicator unit, tire building device and method for applying a strip to a drum" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,393, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Applicator unit, tire building device and method for applying a strip to a drum" was invented by Gerardus Johannes Catharina Van Laar (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an applicator unit, a tire building device and a method for applying a strip to a drum, wherein the applicator unit comprises an applicator roller and a cutter, wherein the applicator roller comprises a roller body that is rotatable about a roller axis for applying the strip to the drum in an application direction perpendicular to said roller axis, wh...