ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,370, issued on March 17.
"Mixing valve" was invented by Frank Schnur (Bonnigheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixing valve for mixing two coating agent components (e.g. master batch and hardener) to form a multi-component mixture, with two coating agent inlets for supplying the two coating agent components and with two coating agent valves for controlling the coating agent flow through the two coating agent inlets, as well as with a coating agent outlet for discharging the multi-component mixture in a specific outflow direction. At least one of the coating agent valves is formed as a rotary slide valve having two plane-...