US Patent Issued to Bruckner Maschinenbau on Sept. 9 for "Pinning device, casting unit as well as stretching unit" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,596, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Bruckner Maschinenbau GmbH (Siegsdorf, Germany).

"Pinning device, casting unit as well as stretching unit" was invented by Stefan FuBstetter (Traunstein, Germany), Florian Adler (Siegsdorf, Germany), Anton Edfelder (Unterwossen, Germany), Gunter Oedl (Salzburg, Austria), Anthimos Giapoulis (Traunstein, Germany), Peter Maurer (Rohrdorf, Germany) and Florian Kellnberger (Grafing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pinning device for the electrostatic pinning of a film on a chill roll is disclosed having a first coil unit, a second coil unit, a pinning region situated between the coil units...