US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on March 25 for "Cutting device and method for cutting a strip and production line for applying an apex to a bead" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,797, issued on March 25, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Netherlands).

"Cutting device and method for cutting a strip and production line for applying an apex to a bead" was invented by Willem Marinus Van Beek (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a cutting device for cutting a continuous length of a strip, in particular an apex for tire building, wherein the cutting device has a conveyor for conveying the strip in a transport direction in a support plane and a knife for cutting through the strip along a cutting line transverse to the transport direction. The cutting device further includes a positioning de...