ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,559, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HellermannTyton GmbH (Tornesch, Germany).
"Feeding device for guiding and providing one-piece ties" was invented by Oliver Dohrmann (Uetersen, Germany) and Carsten Scheel (Uetersen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a feeding device for guiding and providing one-piece ties, with a hose unit and a funnel unit. The hose unit is designed to guide a respective one-piece tie in a hose inner via an air flow along the hose unit towards an outlet end of the hose unit and subsequently in an outlet direction out of the outlet end of the hose unit to the funnel unit. The fun...