US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on May 13 for "Transfer device for an apparatus for continuously conveying items, and method for continuously conveying items" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,052, issued on May 13, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Transfer device for an apparatus for continuously conveying items, and method for continuously conveying items" was invented by Hartmut Korte (Bramsche, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a transfer device (20) apparatus (100) for continuously conveying items. The apparatus (100) has a store (10) having storage tracks (11), and a downstream conveyor track (30), wherein the transfer device (20) is arranged between the store (10) and the conveyor track (30) and is designed to transfer conveyable items from a storage track (11...