ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,108, issued on July 22, was assigned to KOENIG & BAUER AG (Wurzburg, Germany).
"Pile cutting apparatus with support element" was invented by Stephan Haupel (HeBheim, Germany) and Martin Palme (Kist, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include a pile cutting apparatus including a cutting device for cutting a sheet pile, with a front pile bearing surface, a rear pile bearing surface, and a cutting gap arranged therebetween. A table plane contains the front pile bearing surface. The cutting device further includes a movable upper blade, a lower blade including a cutting edge, and a cutting aid for fixing sheet piles that is ...