B65H 59/36
Floating elements compensating for irregularities in supply or take-up of material
Official title: Floating elements compensating for irregularities in supply or take-up of material (buffer storage devices B65H51/20)
B65H59/36 (Floating elements compensating for irregularities in supply or take-up of material) appears on 92 US grants and 63 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 92
- Published applications
- 63
- Assignees
- 86
- Inventors
- 201
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic length control wire pay-off system and method54US 6,527,216 B2Magnatech International, Inc. · 2003
- Tension control unit for filamentous material42US 5,791,584 A1998
- Wire-supplying device for manufacturing wire harnesses invention22US 5,031,847 AAMP Incorporated · 1991
- Device and method for unreeling wire from a wire coil18US 7,147,176 B2Metso Paper, Inc. · 2006
- Wire spooler16US 4,083,506 ABabcock Wire Equipment Limited · 1978