ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,144, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KOENIG & BAUER AG (Wurzburg, Germany).
"Cylinder for a sheet-treating and/or sheet-processing machine with suction air openings and machine for treating and/or processing sheet-format substrate comprising such a cylinder" was invented by Bjorn Kriege (Veitshochheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include a cylinder having a holding means around the circumference and by which a substrate sheet can be picked up and held during rotation of the cylinder over a rotation angle range between when the substrate sheet is received and is transferred downstream. A rotary union includes a ...