ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,197, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Zahoransky AG (Todtnau, Germany).
"Apparatus for producing brushware and method for operating such an apparatus" was invented by Philipp Goldmann (Wembach, Germany), Mehmet Ermis (Utzenfeld, Germany) and Oliver Kruger (Kirchzarten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (1) for producing brushware (2), in particular brushes, brooms and/or paintbrushes, including at least two tufting stations (3, 4) for tufting tufts of bristles (5) in brushware bodies (6). The tufting stations (3, 4) are arranged in a shared working space (7) of the apparatus (1), and the apparatus (1), for at leas...