ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,054, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Buhler AG (Uzwil, Switzerland).
"System for conveying pasta" was invented by Patrick Rohrer (Henggart, Switzerland), Mirjam Hugentobler (Oberuzwil, Switzerland) and Simon Kast (Uzwil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to a conveyor system (1) for a plant for producing elongated pasta, for example spaghetti, with a transfer unit (3) for transferring conveyor elements (4) from a first conveyor unit (2a) to a second conveyor unit (2b), the transfer unit (3) comprising a rotatably mounted cam element (3a) with a gripping device (3b) and a fixedly arranged g...