ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,174, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wuxi Intelligent Equipment Co. Ltd. (Wuxi, China).
"Automatic roll-replacing apparatus" was invented by Xiaofei Yang (Wuxi, China) and Er Cao (Wuxi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an automatic roll-replacing apparatus, including: an unwinding device, a starting-end-handling device comprising a support mechanism and a pick-up mechanism, the support mechanism is located between the standby material roll and the working material roll; the pick-up mechanism is configured to pick up a material strip starting end of a standby material strip and pull the material ...