US Patent Issued to KUNDIG on Oct. 7 for "Devices and methods for the laterally precisely defined use of sanding belts on belt sanding machines in continuous operation" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,346, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KUNDIG AG (Wetzikon, Switzerland).

"Devices and methods for the laterally precisely defined use of sanding belts on belt sanding machines in continuous operation" was invented by Stephan Kundig (Rapperswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device has laterally mobile pressure devices on belt sanders in throughfeed, which are brought into position so that workpieces detected by detectors are sanded in a laterally limited area in the longitudinal direction. An arrangement of such pressure arrangements represents, for example, a segmented sanding pad. The method of lateral movement of it...