ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,952, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to WAFIOS AG (Reutlingen, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for feeding an elongate workpiece to a forming machine" was invented by Martin Bauer (Ammerbuch, Germany), Andreas Gonninger (Grafenberg, Germany), Oliver Kuhnert (Wannweil, Germany), Robin Sautter (Pfullingen, Germany), Peter Schwellbach (Bisingen, Germany) and Tobias Single (Dettingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of feeding an elongate workpiece to a forming machine includes: providing first and second feed units, wherein each of the feed units has a receiving device that receives a workpiece stock in a coil, and a str...