US Patent Issued to ONTEX, ONTEX GROUP on Aug. 12 for "Transfer head, method and apparatus for transferring a pad from a pick-up location to a drop-off location" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,436, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ONTEX BV (Buggenhout, Belgium) and ONTEX GROUP NV (Erembodegem, Belgium).

"Transfer head, method and apparatus for transferring a pad from a pick-up location to a drop-off location" was invented by Christian Adams (Kreuznick, Germany) and Thomas Heege (Dungenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current invention concerns a transfer head (24) configured for the transfer of a pad (6) from a pick-up location (26) to a drop-off location (62). According to the invention, the transfer head (24) comprises a support module (28) comprising a vacuum manifold, and a core module (30) comprising...