ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,462, issued on July 28, was assigned to WE LINK YOU APS (Stovring, Denmark).
"Apparatus for surface treatment, painting of car rims, and method therefore" was invented by Henrik Bro Christensen (Stovring, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus as well as a method for painting of a rim or another rotational symmetric item is provided. The apparatus includes: a coating unit with a robot arm and one or more spray nozzles for applying a curable fluid, an item holder equipped with assembly bodies for disengageable securing of the item with the purpose of rotating it, coinciding with the item's center axis, during the coating ...