US Patent Issued to EXELLIQ AUSTRIA on July 14 for "Extrusion nozzle with insert element" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,017, issued on July 14, was assigned to EXELLIQ AUSTRIA GMBH (Nussbach, Austria).

"Extrusion nozzle with insert element" was invented by Manuel Schnellenberger (Michelsdorf, Austria), Gerald Leitner (Kematen/Krems, Austria) and Ernst Kronegger (Nussbach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrusion nozzle for an extrusion device for extruding plastic profiles includes at least one nozzle plate which has at least one flow channel for plastic melt, and at least one insert element which is inserted into the at least one flow channel in order to reduce a cross-sectional area of the at least one flow channel through which the plast...