ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,296, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zahoransky AG (Todtnau, Germany).
"Device for producing bristle products" was invented by Christoph Albrecht (Todtnau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device used in the technical field of producing bristle products. The device (1) includes a tufting tool (3) for tufting bundles of bristles (4) into a provided bristle carrier (5) and a bristle displacer (6) for displacing already tufted bundles of bristles from a tufting region of the tufting tool (3). The tufting tool (3) and the bristle displacement element (6) are connected to a common drive shaft (9) of the device via a respective coup...