US Patent Issued to Maag Germany on Nov. 3 for "Plastic strand granulator having an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the cutting gap" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,723, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Maag Germany GmbH (Grossostheim, Germany).

"Plastic strand granulator having an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the cutting gap" was invented by Florian W. Fischer (Bamberg, Germany) and Stefan Dahlheimer (Grossostheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a plastic strand granulator the width of a cutting gap between a cutting rotor and a knife strip is gauged by an adjustment mechanism by setting the position of the knife strip. For this purpose the adjustment mechanism has an actuator with a differential thread having a reducing transmission ratio. The adjustment mechanism can advantage...