ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,071, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BOBST (SHANGHAI) LTD (Shanghai).
"Device for storing a sheet pile in a converting machine and converting machine" was invented by Shelly Liu (Shanghai), Justing Zhai (Shanghai), John Wang (Shanghai) and Chao Sun (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for storing a sheet pile in a converting machine (10) comprises a transfer mechanism (28) for delivering sheets (22) into a piling area (26) of the device (22), and a sampling plate (44) which is adjustable between a sampling position and an access position, wherein the top of the piling area (26) is covered by the sampling plate (44) ...