US Patent Issued to Specialty Equipment Fabrication on Aug. 12 for "Systems, apparatus and methods for rotating a container in a container manipulation system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,574, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Specialty Equipment Fabrication Co. (Houston).

"Systems, apparatus and methods for rotating a container in a container manipulation system" was invented by Michael J. Seiver (Houston), Thomas P. Reichelt (Katy, Texas), Jaime Iramategui (Katy, Texas) and Louis E. Bruce (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for rotating a container delivered to a container manipulation system on a conveyor are described. In some embodiments, first and second carriages are positioned on opposite sides of the conveyor, each carrying respective forward and rear clamp arms. Each clamp ...