ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,129, issued on April 8, was assigned to Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).
"Combing device for combing a fiber material" was invented by Daniel Bommer (Elsau, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combing machine includes a machine frame, drive unit, gearing mechanism, operating device, and nipper unit pivotably mounted in the machine frame and having a lower nipper plate with a nipper lip and an upper nipper plate. The combing machine also includes a pair of detaching rollers forming a clamping line, wherein a drive arm of the nipper unit is connected to an intermittently-driven nipper shaft in a rotationall...