US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on April 29 for "Unwinding system, assembly and method for unwinding a tire component from a stock reel" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,320, issued on April 29, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Unwinding system, assembly and method for unwinding a tire component from a stock reel" was invented by Ruben Visser (Epe, Netherlands), Antonie Slots (Epe, Netherlands) and Herman Sebastiaan Scherpenhuizen (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an unwinding system, an assembly and a method for unwinding a tire component from a stock reel and for outputting said tire component in a transport direction, wherein the unwinding system comprises a reel station, an output conveyor and a transfer device for transferring a leading...