Patent ID: 11904536
Assignee: IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS, INC.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A felted-material gripper system for gripping and releasing a plurality of fibrous sheets, wherein the felted gripper system comprises a plate having a surface on which felted material is mounted, wherein the felted material is dimensioned and configured to entangle one or more of the plurality of fibrous sheets and transport the one or more entangled fibrous sheets from a first position or location to a second position or location;
the felted material gripper system further comprising one or more elongated spring-biased pins, wherein each of the one or more elongated pins includes a magnetic tip at one end portion thereof and a bearing surface at the opposite end portion thereof, wherein each of the one or more spring-biased pins when disposed in a rest position enables the elongated magnetic pin tips to be substantially even with or recessed behind the bearing surface of the felted material, wherein each of the one or more spring-biased magnetic pins when disposed in an engaged position has the tips of the magnetic pins extending outwardly from the bearing surface of the felted material, wherein the tips of the magnetic pins return, as a result of spring properties of the one or more spring-biased pins, to the surface on which the felted material is mounted, wherein a felted-material gripper releases the one or more entangled fibrous sheets from the first position or location and secures to the second location the one or more entangled fibrous sheets and the magnetic pin tips return to the rest position.