ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,664, issued on March 31.
"Coating material supply device" was invented by Herbert Martin (Weinstadt-Grossheppach, Germany), Manfred Michelfelder (Steinheim, Germany) and Alexander Falheier (Ludwigsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a coating agent supply device for supplying coating agent (e.g. paint) to an applicator (e.g. rotary atomizer). The coating agent supply device according to the disclosure has a pig source station, a pig destination station and a pig line which connects the pig source station to the pig destination station. The pig line contains a pig package with two pigs for clamping ...