US Patent Issued to PIRELLI TYRE on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for controlling the feed of semifinished products in a tyre building process" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,705, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A. (Milan).

"Method and apparatus for controlling the feed of semifinished products in a tyre building process" was invented by Cesare Emanuele Amurri (Milan), Nicola Il Grande (Settimo Torinese, Italy) and Davide Lupo Conti (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for controlling the feed of semifinished products in a tyre building process, said method comprising: feeding a semifinished product (10) into a building station (30) adapted to build, through said semi-finished product (10), a structural component of a tyre; performing, in an acquisition zone (AZ), a verificatio...