ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,403, issued on May 6.
"Separating apparatus for profiles" was invented by Friedrich Moser (Scharnstein, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separating device for profiles (6) comprises transfer means (8) between supporting surfaces (13) of successive transverse conveyors (1, 2, 3) that have receptacles (11) for a plurality of profiles (6). The receptacles are displaceable in rotary steps of a shaft (9) between a pick-up position and a handover position and form a driver surface (12) that, in the pick-up position, engages under only one profile (6). Stop cams (14) for the profiles (6) are associated with the receptacles (11), and...