ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,290, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH (Linz, Austria).
"Conveying device and method for conveying metal strip coils" was invented by Roland Hofer (Reichenau im Muehlkreis, Austria), Lukas Pichler (Linz, Austria) and Christoph Salzmann (Linz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveying device for conveying metal strip coils. The conveying device includes: at least one coil carrier to carry a metal strip coil; two conveying stations arranged at different heights and each designed to receive one coil carrier; and a conveyor track extending between the conveying stations and having a conveyor dr...