US Patent Issued to Continental Reifen Deutschland on June 10 for "Heating press and method for vulcanizing a vehicle tire in said heating press under vacuum" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,203, issued on June 10, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Heating press and method for vulcanizing a vehicle tire in said heating press under vacuum" was invented by Karsten Wenzel (Helpsen, Germany), Horst Wedekind (Garbsen, Germany) and Michael Ramm (Garbsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating press for vulcanizing a vehicle tire under a vacuum, having a heating press upper part (3) and a heating press lower part (6), the heating press upper part (3) has a hood upper part (4) mounted thereon and a container (2), which contains mold parts (16, 18, 21) of a segmented vulcanizing m...