US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on July 14 for "Extrusion facility with underground transfer of the tool module" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,016, issued on July 14, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Extrusion facility with underground transfer of the tool module" was invented by Fabien Del-Hoyo (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Thomas Babin (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Herve Tirot (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Pablo Le-Bihan (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrusion facility comprises a core site (5) designed to receive a tool module (6) in order to connect an extruder (4) to it with a view to producing a profiled element (2), the core site (5) being located at a first level (11), referred to ...