US Patent Issued to FMS Force Measuring Systems on July 15 for "Force measuring device for measuring web tensions of a running material web" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,993, issued on July 15, was assigned to FMS Force Measuring Systems AG (Oberglatt, Switzerland).

"Force measuring device for measuring web tensions of a running material web" was invented by Jorg Inhelder (Nurensdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a force measuring device (20) for measuring web tensions of a running material web (10) that comprises a longitudinal direction defined by the running direction, and a transverse direction, the force measuring device (20) comprising an axle (22) and, supported on the axle, a measuring roll (30) wrapped around by the material web. Here, according...