US Patent Issued to Wirtz Manufacturing on July 7 for "Battery grid feeder for a pasting machine" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,332, issued on July 7, was assigned to Wirtz Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Port Huron, Mich.).

"Battery grid feeder for a pasting machine" was invented by Sergiu Nicoara (Port Huron, Mich.), Scott A. Mercurio (Clyde Township, Mich.), Thomas J. Shaw (Fort Gratiot, Mich.) and Frederick M. Hewett (Fort Gratiot, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grid guidance device for guiding battery grids to a battery pasting machine. The grid guidance device includes an assemblage of components that work together to adjust a position of a platform relative to a pasting orifice of the battery pasting machine. The platform receives the battery grids over...