US Patent Issued to KAUTEX MASCHINENBAU SYSTEM on April 21 for "Extrusion technique for forming polymer preforms, and tube-forming technique" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,873, issued on April 21, was assigned to KAUTEX MASCHINENBAU SYSTEM GMBH.

"Extrusion technique for forming polymer preforms, and tube-forming technique" was invented by Maurice Mielke (Much, Germany) and Michael Muller (Norvenich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, systems, and techniques relate to a tube-forming device for an extruder unit or an extrusion device and a tube-forming process. The tube-forming device comprises at least one shaping sleeve, which is designed to shape a supplied stream of polymer melt from a substantially strand-like cross section into a tubular cross section. The shaping sleeve ...