US Patent Issued to Haimer on March 31 for "Apparatus for cooling and/or drying a shrink chuck and method for cooling and/or drying a tool holder, in particular a shrink chuck" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,438, issued on March 31, was assigned to Haimer GmbH (Hollenbach-Igenhausen, Germany).

"Apparatus for cooling and/or drying a shrink chuck and method for cooling and/or drying a tool holder, in particular a shrink chuck" was invented by Franz Haimer (Hollenbach-Igenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus cools and/or dries a shrink chuck and a method cools and/or dries a tool holder. The apparatus has a cooling attachment which can be fitted over the shrink chuck with the lower end thereof. In the region of the lower end of the cooling attachment guiding elements are arranged such that a first cooling fluid flow ...