ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,956, issued on July 21, was assigned to OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & Co. KG (Remscheid, Germany).
"Method for operating a crimping apparatus, and crimping apparatus" was invented by Uwe Munster (Wilster, Germany) and Martin Rucker (Kiel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are directed to operating a crimping apparatus, and to a crimping apparatus for crimping a fibre strand having at least two driven rollers and a stuffer box. A nip is formed between the rollers and is sealed off at the end faces of the rollers by press plates. The press plates at the start of the process are temporarily actively pressed against the end fac...