US Patent Issued to Eugen Seitz on Oct. 7 for "Valve" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,795, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Eugen Seitz AG (Wetzikon, Switzerland).

"Valve" was invented by Joachim Schmidt (Hettlingen, Switzerland), Stefan Kohle (Wetzikon, Switzerland), Roland Schnetzer (Tagerwilen, Switzerland) and Mathias Fehlmann (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve, in particular of an extrusion blow moulding machine or a stretch blow moulding machine for manufacturing hollow bodies, has a movable piston, a process fluid region and a compensation chamber. The piston has a free front face which faces the process fluid region with a circumferential outer sealing region. At least one connectin...