US Patent Issued to Engineered Profiles on Sept. 9 for "Sizer for an extrusion machine with improved cooling and vacuum channels" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,595, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Engineered Profiles LLC (Columbus, Ohio).

"Sizer for an extrusion machine with improved cooling and vacuum channels" was invented by Vickram Dhanapal (Delaware, Ohio), Gary Oney (Londonderry, Ohio), Roger May (Lancaster, Ohio) and Troy Kimmes (Johnstown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sizer for cooling an extrudate, which includes a core and a housing. The core includes an extrusion channel which accommodates the extrudate, a core cooling channel, and a core vacuum channel in fluid communication with the extrusion channel. The housing includes a housing cooling channel and a housing vac...